Article 1

Decision 2009/719/EC is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 2 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 2

1.The revised annual monitoring programmes shall apply only to bovine animals born in the Member States listed in the Annex and shall cover at least the following categories:

(a)all bovine animals above 72 months of age subject to normal slaughter for human consumption, or slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign but showing no clinical signs of disease, as referred to in point 2.2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(b)all bovine animals above 48 months of age subject to emergency slaughter or with observations at ante mortem inspection as referred to in point 2.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(c)all bovine animals above 48 months of age, as referred to in point 3.1 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to that Regulation, which have died or been killed but which were not:

(i)

killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96(1);

(ii)

killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease;

(iii)

slaughtered for human consumption.

2.When bovine animals belonging to the animal categories referred to in paragraph 1 and born in one of the Member States listed in the Annex are tested for BSE in another Member State, the age limits for testing in force in the Member State where the tests are performed shall apply.

3.By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1, from 1 January 2013 Member States listed in the Annex may decide to test only a minimum annual sample of the subpopulations referred to in that point.’;

(2)

the Annex is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

(1)

OJ L 99, 20.4.1996, p. 14.’;