http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/eudn/2014/704

Commission Implementing Decision

of 8 October 2014

amending Decision 2009/821/EC as regards the list of border inspection posts

(notified under document C(2014) 7139)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2014/704/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market1, and in particular Article 20(1) and (3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC2, and in particular the second sentence of the second subparagraph of Article 6(4) and Article 6(5) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries3, and in particular Article 6(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Commission Decision 2009/821/EC4 lays down a list of border inspection posts approved in accordance with Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC. That list is set out in Annex I to that Decision.

(2)

Denmark has communicated that the border inspection post at Kolding should be deleted from the list of entries for that Member State. Germany has communicated that the border inspection post at Düsseldorf should be deleted from the list of entries for that Member State. The lists of entries for those Member States as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(3)

Following communication from Spain and the Netherlands, the entries for the border inspection posts at Barcelona, Gran Canaria and Tenerife Sur airports in Spain and at Rotterdam port in the Netherlands should be amended in the list set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC.

(4)

Following a satisfactory audit carried out by the Commission audit service (formerly referred to as Commission inspection service), the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO), the border inspection post at Nuuk in Greenland can be approved for all categories of products not intended for human consumption. The relevant entry for that border inspection post as set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(5)

The FVO carried out audits in Croatia, following which it made some recommendations to that Member State. Those recommendations were satisfactorily addressed by Croatia with an action plan and with the amendment of the approval categories of the border inspection post at Rijeka. The entry for that border inspection post set out in Annex I to Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(6)

Decision 2009/821/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,

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