Document ID: 31998D0603

COUNCIL DECISION of 19 October 1998 amending Decision 95/408/EC on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs (98/603/EC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs (1) and in particular Article 9 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (2),
Whereas the interim period opened by Decision 95/408/EC ends on 31 December 1998; whereas, for administrative reasons, the drawing up of the lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products in accordance with the Directives on health rules applicable to those products has been delayed;
Whereas, in order to prevent any disruptions in traditional trade patterns, the interim period during which a simplified system may be applied to third-country establishments exporting certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs should be extended,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
In Article 9 of Decision 95/408/EC the date '31 December 1998` shall be replaced by '31 December 2000`.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Luxembourg, 19 October 1998.

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