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Document 32008D0638

2008/638/EC: Commission Decision of 30 July 2008 amending Decision 2007/777/EC concerning the authorisation of China for the importation of heat treated poultrymeat products (notified under document number C(2008) 3874) (Text with EEA relevance)

OJ L 207, 5.8.2008, p. 24–29 (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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⏵This document has been published in a special edition(s) (HR)
Special edition in Croatian: Chapter 03 Volume 053 P. 159 - 164

Legal status of the document No longer in force, Date of end of validity: 20/04/2021; Implicitly repealed by 32020R0692

ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2008/638/oj

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Official Journal

5.8.2008

Official Journal of the European Union

L 207/24

COMMISSION DECISION

of 30 July 2008

amending Decision 2007/777/EC concerning the authorisation of China for the importation of heat treated poultrymeat products

(notified under document number C(2008) 3874)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2008/638/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 December 1992 laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/425/EEC (1), and in particular Article 10(2)(c) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (2), and in particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first paragraph of Article 8(1), Article 8(4), Article 9(2)(b) and Article 9(4)(b) and (c) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Decision 2007/777/EC of 29 November 2007 laying down the animal and public health conditions and model certificates for imports of certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for human consumption from third countries and repealing Decision 2005/432/EC (3) lays down rules on imports into the Community of consignments of certain meat products for human consumption, including the lists of third countries and parts of third countries from which imports of such products are to be authorised. That Decision also lays down model certificates and rules on treatments required for those products.

(2)	Under Decision 2007/777/EC, China is only authorised to export to the Community heat treated poultrymeat products treated in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of three or more in accordance with Part 4 of Annex II to that Decision.

(3)	The Chinese authorities have now asked the Commission to authorise the importation into the Community of poultrymeat products which have been subjected to a less severe treatment, namely heat treatment to a minimum temperature of 70 °C.

(4)	Several inspection missions carried out by the Commission's services in China have shown that the competent authorities in China, in particular in the Province of Shandong are sufficiently well structured to deal with the animal health status of poultry.

(5)	In addition, the authorities in the Province of Shandong have been able to demonstrate that the specific animal health requirements as laid down in Directive 2002/99/EC and Decision 2007/777/EC are complied with.

(6)

Following the last Annual General Session of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) held in Paris in May 2007 at which China became a full member of that organisation, the Chinese authorities have regularly sent animal health information to the Commission. In addition, they have agreed to notify to the Commission, within 24 hours after confirmation, initial outbreaks of avian influenza and Newcastle disease in each previously disease free part of its territory.

(7)	China has recently sent avian influenza virus samples to the Community Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza (CRL). The exchange of virus samples makes it possible to do more detailed studies on the evolution of the virus and assess the possible origin and means of virus spread.

(8)	It is therefore appropriate to authorise the importation into the Community of poultrymeat products from the Province of Shandong in China which have been heat treated to a minimum temperature of 70 °C in accordance with Part 4 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC.

(9)	Decision 2007/777/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10)	The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Parts 1 and 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

The Member States shall immediately take the necessary measures to comply with this Decision and publish those measures. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 July 2008.

For the Commission

Androulla VASSILIOU

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 62, 15.3.1993, p. 49. Directive as last amended by Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 33, corrected by OJ L 195, 2.6.2004, p. 12).

(2) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.

(3) OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 49.

ANNEX

‘ANNEX II

PART 1

Regionalised territories for the countries listed in parts 2 and 3

Country	Territory		Description of territory
Country	ISO code	Version	Description of territory
Argentina	AR	01/2004	Whole country
	AR-1	01/2004	The whole country, except the Provinces of Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego for the species covered by Decision 79/542/EEC (as last amended)
	AR-2	01/2004	The Provinces of Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego for the species covered by Decision 79/542/EEC (as last amended)
Brazil	BR	01/2004	Whole country
	BR-1	01/2005	States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul
	BR-2	01/2005	Part of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul (except for the municipalities of Sonora, Aquidauana, Bodoqueno, Bonito, Caracol, Coxim, Jardim, Ladario, Miranda, Pedro Gomes, Porto Murtinho, Rio Negro, Rio Verde of Mato Grosso and Corumbá); State of Paraná; State of Sao Paulo; Part of the State of Minas Gerais (except the regional delegations of Oliveira, Passos, São Gonçalo de Sapucai, Setelagoas and Bambuí); State of Espíritu Santo; State of Rio Grande do Sul; State of Santa Catarina; State of Goias; Part of the State of Mato Grosso comprising: the regional unit of Cuiaba (except for the municipalities of San Antonio de Leverger, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Pocone and Barão de Melgaço); the regional unit of Caceres (except for the municipality of Caceres); the regional unit of Lucas do Rio Verde; the regional unit of Rondonopolis (except for the municipality of Itiquiora); the regional unit of Barra do Garça and the regional unit of Barra do Burgres.
	BR-3	01/2005	States of Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo
China	CN	01/2007	Whole country
China	CN-1	01/2007	Province of Shandong
Malaysia	MY	01/2004	Whole country
Malaysia	MY-1	01/2004	Peninsular (Western) Malaysia only
Namibia	NA	01/2005	Whole country
Namibia	NA-1	01/2005	South of the cordon fences which extend from Palgrave Point in the west to Gam in the east
South Africa	ZA	01/2005	Whole country
South Africa	ZA-1	01/2005	The whole country except: the part of the foot-and-mouth disease control area situated in the veterinary regions of Mpumalanga and Northern provinces, the district of Ingwavuma in the veterinary region of Natal and in the border area with Botswana east of longitude 28°, and the district of Camperdown in the province of KwaZuluNatal.

PART 2

Third countries or parts thereof from which imports of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines into the EU are authorised

(See Part 4 of this Annex for the interpretation of codes used in the table)

ISO code

Country of origin or part thereof

1.	Domestic bovine

2.	Farmed cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine)

Domestic ovine/caprine

1.	Domestic porcine

2.	Farmed cloven-hoofed game (swine)

Domestic soliped

Poultry

2.	Farmed feathered game (except ratites)

Farmed ratites

Domestic rabbit and farmed leporidae

Wild cloven-hoofed game

(excluding swine)

Wild swine

Wild soliped

Wild leporidae

(rabbits and hares)

Wild game birds

Wild land mammalian game

(excluding ungulates, solipeds and leporidae)

Argentina AR

XXX

Argentina AR-1 (1)

XXX

Argentina AR-2 (1)

A (2)

XXX

Australia

XXX

Bahrain

XXX

Brazil

XXX

Brazil BR-1

XXX

Brazil BR-2

XXX

Brazil BR-3

XXX

Botswana

XXX

Belarus

XXX

Canada

XXX

Switzerland (*1)

Chile

XXX

China

XXX

China CN-1

XXX

Colombia

XXX

Ethiopia

XXX

Greenland

XXX

Hong Kong

XXX

Croatia

XXX

Israel

XXX

India

XXX

Iceland

XXX

Kenya

XXX

South Korea

XXX

Morocco

XXX

Montenegro

XXX

Madagascar

XXX

Former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia (*2)

XXX

Mauritius

XXX

Mexico

XXX

Malaysia MY

XXX

Malaysia MY-1

XXX

Namibia (1)

XXX

New Zealand

XXX

Paraguay

XXX

Serbia (*3)

XXX

Russia

XXX

Singapore

XXX

Swaziland

XXX

Thailand

XXX

Tunisia

XXX

Turkey

XXX

Ukraine

XXX

United States

XXX

Uruguay

XXX

South Africa (1)

XXX

Zimbabwe (1)

XXX

XXX	No certificate laid down and meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines containing meat of this species are not authorised.’

(1) See Part 3 of this Annex for the minimum treatment requirements applicable to pasteurised meat products and biltong.

(2) For meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines prepared from fresh meat obtained from animals slaughtered after 1 March 2002.

(*1) In accordance with the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products.

(*2) The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; provisional code that does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject in the United Nations.

(*3) Not including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999.

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