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Consolidated text: Commission Decision of 16 March 2011 on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC (notified under document C(2011) 1630) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/163/EU)Text with EEA relevance

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►B	COMMISSION DECISION of 16 March 2011 on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC (notified under document C(2011) 1630) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/163/EU) (OJ L 070 17.3.2011, p. 40)

Amended by:

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M1	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 14 October 2011	L 270	48	15.10.2011
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M3	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 11 March 2013	L 90	99	28.3.2013
M4	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2013 of 21 February 2013	L 158	74	10.6.2013
M5	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 1 August 2013	L 209	21	3.8.2013
M6	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 12 June 2014	L 175	32	14.6.2014
M7	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 8 December 2014	L 353	17	10.12.2014
M8	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2015/1338 of 30 July 2015	L 206	69	1.8.2015
M9	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2016/601 of 15 April 2016	L 103	43	19.4.2016
M10	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2016/2092 of 28 November 2016	L 324	11	30.11.2016
M11	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2017/903 of 23 May 2017	L 138	189	25.5.2017
M12	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/233 of 15 February 2018	L 45	33	17.2.2018
M13	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/1067 of 26 July 2018	L 192	36	30.7.2018
M14	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2019/64 of 14 January 2019	L 13	2	16.1.2019
M15	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2019/525 of 26 March 2019	L 86	72	28.3.2019
M16	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/1141 of 29 July 2020	L 248	12	31.7.2020
M17	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2020/2218 of 22 December 2020	L 438	63	28.12.2020
►M18	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2021/653 of 20 April 2021	L 138	1	22.4.2021

▼B

COMMISSION DECISION

of 16 March 2011

on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC

(notified under document C(2011) 1630)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2011/163/EU)

Article 1

The plans provided for in Article 29 of Directive 96/23/EC submitted to the Commission by the third countries listed in the table set out in the Annex are approved for the animals and animal products that are intended for human consumption and marked with an ‘X’ in that table.

Article 2

Third countries using raw material imported from other third countries approved for production of food of animal origin in accordance with this Decision or from Member States to be exported to the European Union and which are unable to provide a residue monitoring plan equivalent to that required by Article 7 of Directive 96/23/EC for such raw material shall complement the plan with the following statement:

‘The competent authority of [third country] ensures that animal products for human consumption exported to the European Union, in particular products produced from raw material imported into [third country], shall only come from establishments approved in accordance to Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 and having reliable procedures in place to guarantee that raw material of animal origin used in such food originates only from Member States of the European Union or third countries listed for the respective raw material in the Annex to Commission Decision 2011/163/EU without a restrictive footnote as provided for in Article 2(2) of the Decision.’.

The entry in the Annex to this Decision of a third country exporting animal products for human consumption produced only with raw material of animal origin obtained from Member States of the Union or from third countries that provided a plan in accordance with Article 29 of Directive 96/23/EC shall be complemented with the following restrictive footnote:

‘Third countries using only raw material either from other third countries approved for imports of such raw material to the Union or from Member States, in accordance with Article 2.’.

Article 3

For a transitional period until 30 April 2011, Member States shall accept consignments from Uruguay of rabbit and farmed game and consignments of equine animal products from Ukraine provided that the importer can demonstrate that such consignments were certified and dispatched from Uruguay or Ukraine to the Union prior to 15 March 2011 in accordance with Decision 2004/432/EC.

For a transitional period until 25 March 2011, Member States shall accept consignments from former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Russia or Ukraine of equidae for slaughter provided that the importer of such animals can demonstrate that they were certified and dispatched from former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Russia and Ukraine to the Union prior to 15 March 2011 in accordance with Decision 2004/432/EC.

Article 4

Decision 2004/432/EC is repealed.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

It shall apply from 15 March 2011.

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ANNEX

Code ISO2

Country (1)

Bovine

Ovine/ caprine

Porcine

Equine

Poultry

Aqua-culture

Milk

Eggs

Rabbit

Wild game

Farmed game

Honey

Andorra

X (3)

United Arab Emirates

X (3)

X (13)

Albania

X (8)

Armenia

Argentina

Australia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

X (8)

Bangladesh

Burkina Faso

Benin

Brunei

Brazil

Botswana

Belarus

X (2)

Belize

Canada

Switzerland

Chile

Cameroon

China

Colombia

X (3)

Costa Rica

Cuba

Dominican Republic

Ecuador

Ethiopia

Falkland Islands

X (12)

X (8)

Faroes

X (8)

Great Britain

Georgia

Guernsey

Ghana

Greenland

Guatemala

X (10)

Honduras

Indonesia

Israel (6)

Isle of Man

India

Iran

X (10)

Jersey

Jamaica

Japan

Kenya

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Morocco

X (8)

Moldova

X (8)

Montenegro

X (12)

X (8)

Madagascar

North Macedonia

Myanmar

Mauritius

X (3)

Mexico

Malaysia

X (3)

Mozambique

X (10)

Namibia

X (12)

New Caledonia

X (10)

Nicaragua

X (10)

Nigeria

X (10)

New Zealand

Oman

X (8)

Panama

Peru

Philippines

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Pitcairn Islands

Paraguay

Serbia (4)

X (2)

Russia

X (5)

Rwanda

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

X (3)

X (7)

X (3)

X (7)

Sierra Leone

San Marino

X (3)

El Salvador

Eswatini

Togo

Thailand

Tunisia

X (8)

Turkey

Taiwan

Tanzania

X (10)

Ukraine

X (8)

Uganda

United States

X (11)

Uruguay

Venezuela

Vietnam

Kosovo

X (3)

South Africa

X (9)

Zambia

(1)

The table contains a list of countries and territories. It is not limited to countries recognised by the EU.

(2)

Export to the Union of live equidae for slaughter (food producing animals only).

(3)

Third countries using only raw material either from Member States or from other third countries approved for imports of such raw material to the Union, in accordance with Article 2.

(4)

Not including Kosovo (this designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence).

(5)

Reindeer only.

(6)

Hereafter understood as the State of Israel, excluding the territories under Israeli administration since June 1967, namely the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank.

(7)

Only for commodities of fresh meat originating from New Zealand, destined to the Union and being unloaded, reloaded and transited with or without storage through Singapore.

(8)

Excluding crustaceans.

(9)

Ratites only.

(10)

Excluding finfish.

(11)

Caprine species only.

(12)

Ovine species only.

(13)

Camel milk only.

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