12.11.09; BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in animals. It applies to the production and placing on the market of live animals and products of animal origin. For that purpose, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status of EU Member States or third countries or regions thereof (‘countries or regions’) is to be determined by classification into one of three categories depending on the BSE risk involved, namely a negligible BSE risk, a controlled BSE risk and an undetermined BSE risk.
The Annex to Commission Decision 2007/453/EC establishing the BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk lists countries or regions according to their BSE risk status.
Decision 2007/453/EC currently lists Finland and Sweden as having a negligible BSE risk and all other EU Member States as having a controlled BSE risk. It also lists the BSE status of third countries. In May 2009, the OIE adopted Resolution No XXII — Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Members. That Resolution recognised Chile as having a negligible BSE risk and Colombia and
Japan
as having a controlled BSE risk. The list in Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended to be brought into line with that Resolution as regards those three third countries. However, pending a final conclusion of the OIE on the BSE risk status of all Member States and taking into account the harmonised stringent BSE protective measures applied within the European Community, no changes should at present be made as regards the recognised BSE status of the Member States.
Decision 2007/453/EC has therefore been amended.
This amendment has consequences for the import requirements for several live animals and products of animal origin.
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