26.03.2010; The Salmonella control status in poultry of certain third countries
EU legislation lays down rules for the control of Salmonella in different poultry populations in the European Union. Admission to or retention on the list of third countries provided for in European Union legislation from which EU Member States are authorised to import animals covered by that Regulation is subject to the submission to the European Commission by the third country concerned of a control programme for Salmonella with equivalent guarantees as those contained in the national control programmes for Salmonella in the EU Member States.
With a specific Commission Regulation, published today, the control programmes from certain third countries as regards Salmonella are approved from 1 January 2010.
Certain third countries have not yet submitted any control programme for Salmonella in flocks of turkeys to the EU Commission, or alternatively the programmes submitted by them do not provide guarantees equivalent to those required by EU legislation . Imports of breeding and productive poultry of turkeys, hatching eggs thereof, day-old chicks of turkeys and slaughter poultry and poultry for restocking of turkeys should therefore no longer be authorised from those third countries from 1 January 2010.
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