[F1 [X1This Directive lays down the animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to the animal health requirements laid down in the specific Community acts referred to in Annex F.] ]
This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the provisions adopted pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82.
This Directive shall not affect the national rules applicable to pet animals, although their retention may not jeopardize the abolition of veterinary checks at the frontiers between Member States.
Editorial Information
X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Council Directive 2004/68/EC of 26 April 2004 laying down animal health rules for the importation into and transit through the Community of certain live ungulate animals, amending Directives 90/426/EEC and 92/65/EEC and repealing Directive 72/462/EEC (Official Journal of the European Union L 139 of 30 April 2004).
Textual Amendments
1.For the purposes of this Directive:
trademeans trade as defined by Article 2 (3) of Directive 90/425/EEC;
means specimens of animal species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC(1), 90/539/EEC(2), 91/67/EEC(3), 91/68/EEC(4), 91/492/EEC(5) and 91/493/EEC(6);
means any permanent, geographically limited establishment, approved in accordance with Article 13, where one or more species of animal are habitually kept or bred, whether or not for commercial ends, and exclusively for one or more of the following purposes:
display of the animals and education of the public
conservation of the species;
basic or applied scientific research or breeding of animals for the purposes of such research;
means the diseases listed in Annex A.
2.In addition, the definitions, other than those of approved centres and bodies, contained in Article 2 of Directives 64/432/EEC, 91/67/EEC and 90/539/EEC shall apply mutatis mutandis.
Council Directive 90/426/EEC of 26 June 1990 on animal health conditions governing the movement and import from third countries of equidae (OJ No L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 42). Amended by Directive 91/496/EEC (OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56).
Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs (OJ No L 303, 31.10.1990, p. 6). Last amended by Directive 91/496/EEC (OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56).
Council Directive 91/67/EEC of 28 January 1991 concerning the animal health conditions governing the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and products (OJ No L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 1).
Council Directive 91/68/EEC of 28 January 1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals (OJ No L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 1).
Council Directive 91/492/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of live bivalve moluscs (OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 1).
Council Directive 91/493/EEC of 22 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and the placing on the market of fishery products (OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 15).