Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/622
of 31 March 2017
amending the model certificate for imports of meat preparations in Annex II to Decision 2000/572/EC and the model certificate for imports of certain meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines in Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC in relation to the rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption , and in particular Articles 9(2)(b) and 9(4)(b) thereof,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption , and in particular the second paragraph of Article 16 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Commission Decision 2000/572/EC lays down, inter alia, the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for the importation into the Union of consignments of meat preparations, including meat preparations derived from products of animal origin from bovine, ovine and caprine animals. Decision 2000/572/EC provides that such consignments are to be accompanied by a certificate complying with the model set out in Annex II thereto for consignments of meat preparations intended for importation into the Union (Meat preparations: MP-PREP). This model certificate includes guarantees for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
(2)
Commission Decision 2007/777/EC lays down, inter alia, the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for the importation into the Union of consignments of certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines. This includes meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines of animal origin derived from bovine, ovine and caprine animals. Decision 2007/777/EC provides that such consignments are to be accompanied by a certificate complying with the model set out in Annex III thereto for consignments of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines intended for importation into the Union (Meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for import). This model certificate includes guarantees for BSE.
(3)
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council lays down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in bovine, ovine and caprine animals. Chapter C of Annex IX to that Regulation lays down the conditions for imports into the Union of products of animal origin from bovine, ovine and caprine animals as regards BSE.
(4)
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 was amended by Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1396 . Those amendments provide, inter alia, for clarification of the rules laid down in Chapter C of Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 and for specific conditions for the importation into the Union of products of animal origin from bovine, ovine and caprine animals from third countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk.
(5)
In particular, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2016/1396, permits the importation of products of animal origin from bovine, ovine and caprine animals from third countries with a negligible BSE risk, also when these products are derived from raw material coming from countries with a controlled or an undetermined BSE risk, provided that specified risk material has been removed from such raw material.
(6)
The model veterinary certificate (Meat preparations: MP-PREP) set out in Annex II to Decision 2000/572/EC and the model veterinary certificate (Meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for import) set out in Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC should therefore be amended in order to reflect the requirements relating to the importation into the Union of products of bovine, ovine and caprine animal origin laid down in Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as amended by Regulation (EU) 2016/1396.
(7)
Decisions 2000/572/EC and 2007/777/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(8)
Regulation (EU) 2016/1396 provides that the amendments that it made to Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 are to apply from 1 July 2017. In addition, in order to avoid any disruption of imports into the Union of consignments of meat preparations and certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, the use of certificates issued in accordance with Decisions 2000/572/EC and 2007/777/EC as applicable prior to the amendments being introduced by this Decision should continue to be authorised during a transitional period subject to certain conditions.
(9)
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:
OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 206.
Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (OJ L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 19).
Commission Decision 2007/777/EC of 29 November 2007 laying down the animal and public health conditions and model certificates for imports of certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for human consumption from third countries and repealing Decision 2005/432/EC (OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 49).
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1).
Commission Regulation (EU) 2016/1396 of 18 August 2016 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ L 225, 19.8.2016, p. 76).