Commission Decision of 22 December 2006 laying down transitional measures as regards the dispatch of certain products of the meat and milk sectors covered by Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council from Bulgaria to other Member States (notified under document number C(2006) 7029) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/31/EC) (repealed)

Article 1

This Decision shall apply to products of the meat and milk sectors covered by the following Sections of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004:

(a)

Section I (meat of domestic ungulates);

(b)

Section II (meat from poultry and lagomorphs);

(c)

Section III (meat of farmed game);

(d)

Section IV (wild game meat);

(e)

Section V (minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat);

(f)

Section VI (meat products); and

(g)

Section IX (raw milk and dairy products).

Article 2

1. The products referred to Article 1 (‘the products’) shall not be dispatched from Bulgaria to other Member States.

2. Member States shall ensure, in accordance with Directive 89/662/EEC and in particular Article 3 thereof, that the products are not traded between Member States.

Article 3

By way of derogation from Article 2(1), Member States shall authorise the trade in products which are obtained in a processing establishment listed in the Annex provided that the products:

(a)

bear the Community health mark or identification mark, as referred to in points (a) and (b) of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004, of the processing establishments concerned;

(b)

are accompanied by a document, as provided for in Article 14 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), in which the competent authority of Bulgaria certifies the following:

“Products in conformity with Commission Decision 2007/31/EC”.

Article 4

This Decision shall apply subject to and as from the date of the entry into force of the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania.

It shall apply until 31 December 2007.

This Decision will be reviewed before this date in particular in view of the results of new FVO inspections carried out in January 2007.

Article 5

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 December 2006.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission