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Consolidated text: Commission Implementing Decision of 12 November 2013 concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of the subtype H5N1 to be applied in the event of an outbreak of that disease in Switzerland and repealing Decision 2009/494/EC (notified under document C(2013) 7505) (Text with EEA relevance) (2013/657/EU)

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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION

of 12 November 2013

concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of the subtype H5N1 to be applied in the event of an outbreak of that disease in Switzerland and repealing Decision 2009/494/EC

(notified under document C(2013) 7505)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2013/657/EU)

(OJ L 305 15.11.2013, p. 19)

Amended by:

 

 

Official Journal

  No

page

date

 M1

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/2225 Text with EEA relevance of 30 November 2015

  L 316

14

2.12.2015

►M2

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2017/2410 Text with EEA relevance of 20 December 2017

  L 342

13

21.12.2017




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COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION

of 12 November 2013

concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of the subtype H5N1 to be applied in the event of an outbreak of that disease in Switzerland and repealing Decision 2009/494/EC

(notified under document C(2013) 7505)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2013/657/EU)



Article 1

1.  Member States shall suspend imports into the Union from all areas of the territory of Switzerland for which the competent authorities of Switzerland formally apply protection measures that are equivalent to those laid down in Decisions 2006/415/EC and 2006/563/EC of the following commodities:

(a) poultry as defined in point (1) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008;

(b) hatching eggs as defined in point (2) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008;

(c) birds as defined in point (a) of the second paragraph of Article 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 and their hatching eggs;

(d) meat, minced meat, meat preparations, and mechanically separated meat of wild feathered game;

(e) meat products consisting of or containing meat of wild feathered game;

(f) raw pet food and unprocessed feed material containing any parts of wild feathered game;

(g) non-treated game trophies from any birds.

2.  By way of derogation from paragraph 1(e), Member States shall authorise imports into the Union of meat products consisting of or containing meat of wild feathered game under the condition that the meat of these species has undergone at least one of the specific treatments referred to under point B, C or D in Part 4 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC.

Article 2

Member States shall, immediately upon receipt of information from the Commission on the change in the animal health status of Switzerland with regard to highly pathogenic avian influenza of the subtype H5N1 take the necessary measures to comply with Article 1 of this Decision and publish those measures.

Article 3

Decision 2009/494/EC is repealed.

Article 4

This Decision shall apply until ►M2  31 December 2018 ◄ .

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

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