29.08.08; New list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the European Community and veterinary certification requirements
Commission Decision 2006/696/EC sets out a list of third countries from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into, and transit through, the European Community and lays down the veterinary certification conditions.
Commission Decision 93/342/EEC and Commission Decision 94/438/EC are laying down the criteria for classifying third countries with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease and the criteria for classifying third countries and parts thereof with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease.
EU legislation for the control of avian influenza has recently been updated by Council Directive 2005/94/EC.
Imports from third countries should meet conditions equivalent to those applied within the European Community and which are in line with the revised requirements for international trade in poultry and poultry products laid down by the standards of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the World Organisation for Animal health (OIE) and the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the OIE.
Pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003, admission to or retention on the lists of third countries provided for in EU legislation from which EU Member States are authorised to import certain poultry commodities covered by that Regulation is subject to the submission to the European Commission by the third country concerned of a programme equivalent to national control programmes for Salmonella to be established by the EU Member States, and its approval by the European Commission.
The EU and certain third countries wish to permit trade in poultry and poultry products coming from approved compartments and therefore the principle of compartmentalisation for imports of poultry and poultry products should be further laid down in EU legislation. The compartmentalisation principle has been laid down recently by the OIE in order to facilitate world wide trade in poultry and poultry products and therefore it should be incorporated into EU legislation.
In the interests of clarity and coherence of EU legislation, Decisions 93/342/EEC, 94/438/EC and 2006/696/EC are now repealed and replaced by a new Commission Regulation.
This Regulation enters into force on 12 September 2008, applies from 1 January 2009 and lays down veterinary certification requirements for imports into and transit, including storage during transit, through the European Community of the following commodities:
(a) poultry (= including farmed game birds), hatching eggs, day-old chicks and specified pathogen-free eggs;
(b) meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry, including ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products.
It also lays down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which the mentioned commodities may be imported into the Community.
Commodities in respect of which the relevant veterinary certificates have been issued in accordance with Decisions 93/342/EEC, 94/438/EC and 2006/696/EC may be imported into or transit through the European Community for a certain period.
Vetimpleg explains all consequences and provides you with the new certificates.
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