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Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of live poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game and hatching eggs of these species.
Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of:
fresh meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game; and
meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or containing meat of the species referred to in point (a).
1.By way of derogation from Article 2(a) and (b), Member States shall authorise imports of the products covered that Article which have been obtained from poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game coming from the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria and which were slaughtered or killed before 16 November 2004.
2.In the veterinary certificates accompanying consignments of the products referred to in paragraph 1, the following words shall be included:
‘Fresh poultry meat/fresh ratite meat/fresh meat of wild feathered game/fresh meat of farmed feathered game/meat product consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites, farmed or wild feathered game meat/meat preparation consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites, farmed or wild feathered game meat(1) in accordance with Article 3(1) of Decision 2005/61/EC.’.
3.By way of derogation from point (b) of Article 2 of this Decision, Member States shall authorise imports of meat products consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game, when the meat of these species has undergone one of the specific treatments referred to in points B, C or D in Part IV of the Annex to Commission Decision 97/222/EC(2).
The Member States shall amend the measures they apply to trade so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision and they shall give immediate appropriate publicity to the measures adopted. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
Decision 2004/908/EC is repealed.
This Decision shall apply until 16 May 2005.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 27 January 2005.
For the Commission
Markos Kyprianou
Member of the Commission
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