Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013

of 28 June 2013

on the model identification documents for the non-commercial movement of dogs, cats and ferrets, the establishment of lists of territories and third countries and the format, layout and language requirements of the declarations attesting compliance with certain conditions provided for in Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

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

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the non-commercial movement of pet animals and repealing Regulation (EC) No 998/20031, and in particular Article 7(3), Article 11(4), Article 13(1) and (2), Article 21(2) and Article 25(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)
Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 lays down the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals into a Member State from another Member State or from a territory or a third country and the rules for compliance checks on such movements. That Regulation repealed and replaced Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals and amending Council Directive 92/65/EEC2.
(2)

Dogs, cats and ferrets are listed in Part A of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013, as species of animals covered by that Regulation.

(3)

Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 provides that dogs, cats and ferrets are not to be moved into a Member State from another Member State or from territories or third countries unless they have received an anti-rabies vaccination that complies with the validity requirements set out in Annex III thereto. However, the movement of young dogs, cats and ferrets which are not vaccinated or do not meet the validity requirements set out in Annex III thereto may be authorised from Member States or from territories or third countries listed pursuant to Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013, where, inter alia, the owner or the authorised person provides a signed declaration that from birth until the time of the non-commercial movement the pet animals have had no contact with wild animals of species susceptible to rabies. It is therefore appropriate to set out the format, layout and language requirements for that declaration in this Regulation.

(4)

In addition, Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 provides that the Commission is to adopt two lists of territories or third countries from which dogs, cats or ferrets moved for non-commercial purposes into a Member State are not required to undergo a rabies antibody titration test. One of those lists should include those territories or third countries that have demonstrated that they apply rules the content and effect of which are the same as those applied by Member States and the other list should include those territories or third countries that have demonstrated that they meet at least the criteria laid down in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013. It is therefore appropriate to set out those lists in an Annex to this Regulation.

(5)
In addition, those lists should take account of the provisions of Treaty of Accession of Croatia, according to which Croatia is to become a member of the European Union on 1 July 2013 and European Council Decision 2012/419/EU of 11 July 2012 amending the status of Mayotte with regard to the European Union3 which provides that from 1 January 2014 Mayotte is to cease to be an overseas country or territory to which the provisions of Part Four of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union apply and is to become an outermost region of the Union within the meaning of Article 349 of that Treaty.
(6)

Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 also provides that dogs, cats and ferrets are not to be moved into a Member State from a territory or a third country other than those listed in an Annex to this Regulation unless they have undergone a rabies antibody titration test that complies with the validity requirements set out in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013. The transit through one of those territories or third countries is however not subject to that test where the owner or the authorised person provides a signed declaration that the animals have had no contact with animals of species susceptible to rabies and remain secured within a means of transport or within the perimeter of an international airport. It is therefore appropriate to set out the format, layout and language requirements for that declaration in this Regulation.

(7)
The validity requirements set out in Annex IV to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 include the obligation to perform that test in a laboratory approved in accordance with Council Decision 2000/258/EC of 20 March 2000 designating a specific institute responsible for establishing the criteria necessary for standardising the serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines4, which provides that the Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments (AFSSA) in Nancy, France (integrated since 1 July 2010 into the Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire de l'alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail, ANSES) is to appraise the laboratories in Member States and third countries for the purposes of their authorisation to carry out serological tests to monitor the effectiveness of rabies vaccines in dogs, cats and ferrets.
(8)
Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 also provides that dogs, cats and ferrets moved into a Member State from another Member State for non-commercial purposes are to be accompanied by an identification document in the format of a passport in accordance with a model to be adopted by the Commission. That model is to contain the entries for the insertion of the information laid down in Regulation (EU) No 576/2013. The model and additional requirements for the passport should be set out in an Annex to this Regulation and, for the sake of clarity and simplification of Union legislation, Commission Decision 2003/803/EC of 26 November 2003 establishing a model passport for the intra-Community movements of dogs, cats and ferrets5 should be repealed.
(9)

Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 also provides that dogs, cats and ferrets moved into a Member State from a territory or a third country for non-commercial purposes are to be accompanied by an identification document in the format of an animal health certificate in accordance with a model to be adopted by the Commission. That model is to contain the entries for the insertion of the information laid down in Regulation (EU) No 576/2013. It is therefore appropriate to set out that model in an Annex to this Regulation.

(10)

By way of derogation from the format of the animal health certificate provided for in the case of a movement into a Member State from a territory or a third country, Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 provides that Member States are to authorise the non-commercial movement of dogs, cats and ferrets from a territory or a third country that has demonstrated that it applies rules the content and effect of which are the same as those applied by Member States, where the identification document accompanying them has been issued in accordance with the procedure provided for in the case of a movement into a Member State from another Member State. However, a number of technical adaptations are necessary to the model passport to be used in such cases, with regard in particular to features on the cover page that cannot fully comply with the requirements applicable to passports issued by a Member State. For reasons of clarity, it is therefore appropriate to set out a model for such passports in this Regulation.

(11)
Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 provides that where the number of dogs, cats or ferrets moved for non-commercial purposes during a single movement exceeds five, the relevant animal health requirements laid down in Council Directive 92/65/EEC6 of 13 July 1992 laying down the animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 90/425/EEC are to apply to those animals, except under specific conditions and for certain categories of animals.
(12)
In addition Commission Decision 2004/839/EC of 3 December 2004 establishing conditions for non-commercial movements of young dogs and cats from third countries into the Community7 and Commission Decision 2005/91/EC of 2 February 2005 establishing the period after which the anti-rabies vaccination is considered as valid8 were adopted in order to provide for uniform rules for the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 998/2003. The rules provided for in those acts have been reviewed and are now incorporated in the provisions of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013. For the sake of clarity and simplification of Union legislation, Decisions 2004/839/EC and 2005/91/EC should therefore be repealed.
(13)
Council Directive 96/93/EC of 17 December 1996 on the certification of animals and animal products9 lays down the rules to be observed in issuing the certificates required by veterinary legislation to prevent misleading or fraudulent certification. It is appropriate to ensure that rules and principles at least equivalent to those laid down in that Directive are applied by official veterinarians of third countries.
(14)
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2011 of 14 July 2011 supplementing Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards preventive health measures for the control of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in dogs10 provides that from 1 January 2012, dogs entering Member States or parts thereof listed in Annex I thereto are to be treated against the parasite Echinococcus multilocularis in accordance with the requirements set out in that Regulation.
(15)
This Regulation should apply without prejudice to Commission Decision 2006/146/EC of 21 February 2006 on certain protection measures with regard to certain fruit bats, dogs and cats coming from Malaysia (Peninsula) and Australia11 which prohibits imports of dogs and cats from Malaysia (Peninsula) and cats from Australia unless certain conditions are met regarding respectively Nipah disease and Hendra disease.
(16)

This Regulation should apply from the date of application of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013.

(17)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1Format, layout and language requirements of the declarations referred to in Articles F1... 11 and 12 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

1.

The F2declaration referred to in point (a) F3... of Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 shall be drawn up in accordance with the format and layout set out in Part 1 of Annex I to this Regulation and shall comply with the language requirements set out in Part 3 of that Annex.

2.

The declaration referred to in point (c) of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 shall be drawn up in accordance with the format and layout set out in Part 2 of Annex I to this Regulation and shall comply with the language requirements set out in Part 3 of that Annex.

Article 2Lists of F4... third countries referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

1.

The list of F5... third countries referred to in Article 13(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 is set out in Part 1 of Annex II to this Regulation.

2.

The list of F6... third countries referred to in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 is set out in Part 2 of Annex II to this Regulation.

F7Article 3Model of passports for the non-commercial movement of dogs, cats or ferrets

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Article 4F8Pet health certificate for the non-commercial movement into F9Great Britain of dogs, cats or ferrets

F101.

The F11pet health certificate referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 shall be:

  1. (a)

    drawn up in accordance with the model F12published by the appropriate authority from time to time, in such manner as appears to the appropriate authority to be appropriate;

  2. (b)

    F13...

  3. (c)

    supplemented by the written declaration referred to in Article 25(3) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 which is drawn up in accordance with the model set out in Section A of Part 3 of F14Annex 4 and which complies with the additional requirements set out in Section B of Part 3 of that Annex.

F152.

Subject to paragraph 3, the pet health certificate referred to in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 is valid for 10 days from the date of issue by the official veterinarian until the date of documentary and identity checks at the travellers’ point of entry.

3.

In the case of transport by sea, the period of 10 days referred to in paragraph 2 is extended by an additional period corresponding to the duration of the journey by sea.

Article 5Repeals

Decisions 2003/803/EC, 2004/839/EC and 2005/91/EC are repealed.

Article 6Entry into force and applicability

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

It shall apply from 29 December 2014.

F16...

ANNEX IFormat, layout and language requirements of the declarationsreferred to in point (a) F17... of Article 11(2) and in point (c) of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

F18PART 1Format and layout of the declaration referred to in point (a) F19... of Article 11(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

F20PART 2Format and layout of the declaration referred to in point (c) of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

PART 3Language requirements for the declarations referred to in point (a) F21... of Article 11(2) and in point (c) of Article 12(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

The declarations shall be drawn up in F22English and may also be drawn up in other languages.

F23ANNEX II List of F24... third countries referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

F25PART 1 List of F26... third countries referred to in Article 13(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

ISO code

F27... third country

AD

Andorra

CH

Switzerland

F28EU

F29EU Member States

FO

Faeroe Islands

GI

Gibraltar

GL

Greenland

IS

Iceland

LI

Liechtenstein

MC

Monaco

SM

San Marino

VA

Vatican City State

F25PART 2 List of F30... third countries referred to in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

ISO code

F31...third country

Included territories

AC

Ascension Island

AE

United Arab Emirates

AG

Antigua and Barbuda

AR

Argentina

AU

Australia

AW

Aruba

BA

Bosnia and Herzegovina

BB

Barbados

BH

Bahrain

BM

Bermuda

BQ

Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the BES Islands)

BY

Belarus

CA

Canada

CL

Chile

CW

Curaçao

FJ

Fiji

FK

Falkland Islands

HK

Hong Kong

JM

Jamaica

JP

Japan

KN

Saint Kitts and Nevis

KY

Cayman Islands

LC

Saint Lucia

MS

Montserrat

MK

North Macedonia

MU

Mauritius

MX

Mexico

MY

Malaysia

NC

New Caledonia

NZ

New Zealand

PF

French Polynesia

PM

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

RU

Russia

SG

Singapore

SH

Saint Helena

SX

Sint Maarten

TT

Trinidad and Tobago

TW

Taiwan

US

United States of America

AS — American Samoa

GU — Guam

MP — Northern Mariana Islands

PR — Puerto Rico

VI — US Virgin Islands

VC

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

VG

British Virgin Islands

VU

Vanuatu

WF

Wallis and Futuna

F32ANNEX IIIModels of passports for the non-commercial movement of dogs, cats or ferrets

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ANNEX IV

F33PART 1 Model animal health certificate for the non-commercial movement into a Member State from a territory or third country of dogs, cats or ferrets in accordance with Article 5(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

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F34PART 2Explanatory notes for completing the animal health certificates

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PART 3Written declaration referred to in Article 25(3) of of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013

F35Section AModel of declaration

Section BAdditional requirements for the declaration

The declaration shall be drawn up in F36English and may also be drawn up in other languages and shall be completed in block letters.