Decision 2003/644 - 2003/644/EC: Commission Decision of 8 September 2003 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry (notified under document number C(2003) 3190) - Main contents

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2003/644/EC: Commission Decision of 8 September 2003 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 3190)

Official Journal L 228 , 12/09/2003 P. 0029 - 0034

Commission Decision

of 8 September 2003

establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry

(notified under document number C(2003) 3190)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2003/644/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to 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(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003(2), and in particular Article 9a(2) thereof,

Whereas:

• (1) 

  Commission Decision 95/160/EC of 21 April 1995 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry(3), has been substantially amended(4). In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Decision should be codified.

• (2) 

  The Commission has approved the operational programmes submitted by Finland and Sweden regarding salmonella controls. Those programmes include specific measures for breeding poultry and for day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry.

• (3) 

  Guarantees should be established equivalent to those implemented by Finland and Sweden under their operational programmes.

• (4) 

  The detailed guarantees are to be based in particular on a microbiological examination of the poultry to be sent to Finland and Sweden.

• (5) 

  In this context different rules should be laid down for breeding poultry and day-old chicks.

• (6) 

  Rules should be established for this microbiological examination of samples by laying down the sampling method, the number of samples to be taken and the microbiological methods for examining the samples.

• (7) 

  Those guarantees should not be applicable to any flock that is subject to a programme recognised as equivalent to that implemented by Finland and Sweden.

• (8) 

  With regard to consignments originating from third countries, Finland and Sweden should apply import requirements at least as stringent as those laid down in this Decision.

• (9) 

  The methods described in this Decision take into account the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.

• (10) 

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Breeding poultry to be sent to Finland and Sweden shall be subject to a microbiological test, effected by sampling in the flock of origin.

Article 2

The microbiological test referred to in Article 1 shall be carried out as laid down in Annex I.

Article 3

• 1. 

  Breeding poultry to be sent to Finland and Sweden shall be accompanied by the certificate shown in Annex II.

• 2. 

  The certificate provided for in paragraph 1 may:

• - 

  either be accompanied by the model 3 certificate of Annex IV to Directive 90/539/EEC,

• - 

  or be incorporated in the certificate referred to in the first indent.

Article 4

Day-old chicks to be sent to Finland or Sweden for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or...

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