Delegated regulation 2020/688 - Supplement to Regulation 2016/429, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs - Main contents
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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs| Legal instrument | delegated regulation |
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| Number legal act | Delegated regulation 2020/688 |
| CELEX number i | 32020R0688 |
| Document | 17-12-2019; Date of adoption |
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| Publication in Official Journal | 03-06-2020; OJ L 174 p. 140-210 |
| Effect | 23-06-2020; Entry into force Date pub. +20 See Art 108 21-04-2021; Application See Art 108 |
| End of validity | 31-12-9999 |
3.6.2020 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
L 174/140 |
COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2020/688
of 17 December 2019
supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law (1)’), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 3(5), Article 125(2), Article 131(1), Article 132(2), Article 135, Article 136(2), Article 137(2), Article 140, Article 144(1), Article 146(1), Article 147, Article 149(4), Article 154(1), Article 156(1), Article 160, Article 162(3) and (4), Article 163(5)(b) and (c) and Article 164(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) |
Regulation (EU) 2016/429 lays down rules for the prevention and control of animal diseases that are transmissible to animals or humans. In Chapters 3-5 of Title I of Part IV, it lays down the animal health requirements for movements within the Union of kept and wild terrestrial animals and germinal products thereof. The Regulation also empowers the Commission to adopt rules to supplement certain non-essential elements of that Regulation by means of delegated acts. It is therefore appropriate to adopt such rules in order to ensure the smooth functioning of the new legal framework established by Regulation (EU) 2016/429. |
(2) |
The rules and risk mitigation measures laid down in this Regulation are required to supplement the animal health requirements laid down in Chapters 3-5 of Title I of Part IV of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 as regards the movements within the Union of kept and wild terrestrial animals and of hatching eggs, to ensure that those commodities do not pose a significant risk of spread of listed diseases referred to in Article 5(1) and Annex II of the same Regulation, as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1629 (2) and categorised in accordance with Article 9(1)(d) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 (3). Regulation (EU) 2016/429 aims to provide a simpler and more flexible regulatory framework comparing to the one applying prior to its adoption, while at the same time ensuring a more risk-based approach to animal health requirements, and improved animal disease preparedness, prevention and control. It also aims to collect the rules on animal diseases in a single act, rather than their being scattered over a number of different acts. The rules laid down in this Regulation concerning certain germinal products, notably hatching eggs, follow the same approach. The content of the rules is substantively linked, since they are to apply to all operators moving kept or wild terrestrial animals or hatching eggs. In the interests of simplicity and transparency, as well as to facilitate the application of the rules and avoid duplication, they should be laid down in a single act rather than in a number of cross-referenced separate acts. |
(3) |
Article 5(1) and Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2016/429, as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1629, provide the list of animal diseases of special relevance for Union intervention, while Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 categorises them on the basis of the specific measures to apply to them, and lists the animal species to which those rules should apply. Category D diseases are considered to pose a considerable risk of spread when animals are moved between Member States. |
(4) |
Eradication programmes exist for the eradication of category B or C... |
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