http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/eudn/2015/567

Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/567

of 7 April 2015

amending Annex I to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the declaration of Lithuania as an officially tuberculosis-free Member State as regards bovine herds

(notified under document C(2015) 2161)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine1, and in particular paragraph 4 of Annex A.I thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Directive 64/432/EEC applies to trade within the Union in bovine animals. It lays down the conditions whereby a Member State may be declared officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.

(2)

Chapter 1 of Annex I to Commission Decision 2003/467/EC2 lists the Member States which are declared officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.

(3)

Lithuania has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for its whole territory with the conditions laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC for officially tuberculosis-free status as regards bovine herds. Accordingly, it should be declared an officially tuberculosis-free Member State as regards bovine herds.

(4)

The list set out in Chapter 1 of Annex I to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended to include Lithuania.

(5)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: