01.11.08; 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 of 29 June 2007 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.
Pending the final conclusion on the BSE risk status of the EU Member States, all Member States were provisionally recognised as countries with a controlled BSE risk as laid down in Decision 2007/453/EC. During the OIE General Session in May 2008, a Resolution was adopted relating to the BSE status of different countries. The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be brought in line with the recommendations of the Resolution of the OIE. Pending a final conclusion on the BSE risk status of certain EU Member States and taking into account the harmonised stringent BSE protective measures applied within the European Community, those Member States should remain provisionally recognised as countries with a controlled BSE risk.
Decision 2007/453/EC has therefore been amended today. This amendment applies from 1 December 2008 and has consequences for the import requirements for several live animals and products of animal origin.
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