Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 is amended as follows:

  1. 1.

    the following Article is inserted:

    ‘Article 6bRequirements concerning official controls for the inspection of meat for the purpose of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004

    Requirements concerning official controls for the inspection of meat are laid down in Annex VIb.’;

  2. 2.

    Chapter II of Annex III is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Regulation;

  3. 3.

    the text in Annex II to this Regulation is inserted as Annex VIb.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 24 October 2007.

For the Commission

Markos Kyprianou

Member of the Commission