Article 1
Decision 2006/766/EC is amended as follows:
- 1.
Annex I is amended as follows:
- (a)
the title to Annex I is replaced by the following:
ANNEX IList of third countries from which imports are permitted of live, frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods for human consumption7
- (b)
the following entry for Canada is inserted after the entry for Australia:
CA
CANADA
- (c)
the following entry for Greenland is inserted after the entry for Chile:
GL
GREENLAND
- (d)
the following entry for the United States is inserted after the entry for Turkey:
US
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Only until 1 July 2010
and
excluding imports of bivalve molluscs harvested in the States of Florida, Texas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
- (a)
- 2.
Annex II to Decision 2006/766/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2010.
Article 3
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 December 2009.
For the Commission
Androulla Vassiliou
Member of the Commission