14.08.08; Simplified procedures of listing and publishing information in the veterinary and zootechnical fields
EU legislation in the veterinary field provides that assembly centres for bovine, porcine, caprine and ovine animals, equine marshalling centres, dealers of those animals, poultry establishments, semen collection or storage centres and embryo collection or production teams and certain bodies, institutes and centres (‘animal health establishments’) are to comply with certain conditions and must be officially approved by EU Member States for intra-Community trade in certain live animals and their products, and in particular animal genetic materials, such as semen, ova and embryos.
Similarly to the rules applied to intra-Community trade, imports of semen, ova and embryos are regulated in such a way that the animal health establishments of origin in third countries are to fulfil certain conditions in order to minimise animal health risks. Accordingly, imports into the European Community of such genetic materials should f.e only be authorised from semen collection or storage centres and embryo collection or production teams officially approved for export to the European Community by the
competent authorities of the third country concerned in accordance with EU requirements and following EU veterinary inspections, where appropriate.
Depending on the type of genetic materials and on the species concerned, the current procedures for listing animal health establishments and updating the relevant lists are different.
Therefore those procedures should be harmonised and provide for more systematic, coherent and uniform rules with regard to the five key elements of such procedures, namely registration, listing, updating, transmission and publication of the lists.
The different existing procedures should be replaced by a procedure under which imports into the EU should only be permitted from third countries in which competent authorities draw up and keep up to date the lists and communicate them to the European Commission. The Commission should inform the EU Member States about those lists and make them available to the public for information purposes. In the case of concerns with regard to the lists communicated by the third countries, special safeguard measures are to be adopted.
The European Council has recently published these harmonized and simplified requirements which amends several Directives.
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