Commission Decision of 29 November 2007 laying down the animal and public health conditions and model certificates for imports of certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for human consumption from third countries and repealing Decision 2005/432/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 5777) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/777/EC)

ANNEX II U.K.

[F1 PART 1 U.K. Regionalised territories for the countries listed in parts 2 and 3

Country	Territory		Description of territory
	ISO code	Version
Argentina	AR	01/2004	Whole country
	AR-1	01/2004	The whole country, except the Provinces of Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego for the species covered by Decision 79/542/EEC (as last amended)
	AR-2	01/2004	The Provinces of Chubut, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego for the species covered by Decision 79/542/EEC (as last amended)
Brazil	BR	01/2004	Whole country
	BR-1	01/2005	States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul
	BR-2	01/2005	Part of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul (except for the municipalities of Sonora, Aquidauana, Bodoqueno, Bonito, Caracol, Coxim, Jardim, Ladario, Miranda, Pedro Gomes, Porto Murtinho, Rio Negro, Rio Verde of Mato Grosso and Corumbá); State of Paraná; State of Sao Paulo; Part of the State of Minas Gerais (except the regional delegations of Oliveira, Passos, São Gonçalo de Sapucai, Setelagoas and Bambuí); State of Espíritu Santo; State of Rio Grande do Sul; State of Santa Catarina; State of Goias; Part of the State of Mato Grosso comprising: the regional unit of Cuiaba (except for the municipalities of San Antonio de Leverger, Nossa Senhora do Livramento, Pocone and Barão de Melgaço); the regional unit of Caceres (except for the municipality of Caceres); the regional unit of Lucas do Rio Verde; the regional unit of Rondonopolis (except for the municipality of Itiquiora); the regional unit of Barra do Garça and the regional unit of Barra do Burgres.
	BR-3	01/2005	States of Goiás, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo
China	CN	01/2007	Whole country
	CN-1	01/2007	Province of Shandong
Malaysia	MY	01/2004	Whole country
	MY-1	01/2004	Peninsular (Western) Malaysia only
Namibia	NA	01/2005	Whole country
	NA-1	01/2005	South of the cordon fences which extend from Palgrave Point in the west to Gam in the east
[F2 South Africa	ZA	01/2005	Whole country
	ZA-1	01/2005	The whole country except: the part of the foot-and-mouth disease control area situated in the veterinary regions of Mpumalanga and Northern provinces, the district of Ingwavuma in the veterinary region of Natal and in the border area with Botswana east of longitude 28°, and the district of Camperdown in the province of KwaZuluNatal.] ]
	[ F3 ]

Textual Amendments

F2 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 991/2011 of 5 October 2011 amending Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entries for South Africa in the lists of third countries or parts thereof with respect to highly pathogenic avian influenza (Text with EEA relevance).

F3 Deleted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 110/2012 of 9 February 2012 amending Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entries for South Africa in the lists of third countries or parts thereof (Text with EEA relevance).

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Decision of 30 July 2008 amending Decision 2007/777/EC concerning the authorisation of China for the importation of heat treated poultrymeat products (notified under document number C(2008) 3874) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/638/EC).

[F4 PART 2 U.K. Third countries or parts thereof from which the introduction of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines into the Union is authorised (See Part 4 of this Annex for the interpretation of codes used in the table)

a See Part 3 of this Annex for the minimum treatment requirements applicable to pasteurised meat products and biltong.
b For meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines prepared from fresh meat obtained from animals slaughtered after 1 March 2002 .
c Onlly for transit in accordance with Article 5.
d In accordance with the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products.
e The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia; provisional code that does not prejudge in any way the definitive nomenclature for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of negotiations currently taking place on this subject in the United Nations.
f Not including Kosovo as defined by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of 10 June 1999 .
XXX No certificate laid down and meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines containing meat of this species are not authorised.]
ISO code	Country of origin or part thereof	1. Domestic bovine 2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game-(excluding swine)	Domestic ovine/ caprine	1. Domestic porcine 2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game (swine)	Domestic soliped	1. Poultry 2. Farmed feathered game (except ratites)	Farmed ratites	Domestic rabbit and farmed leporidae	Wild cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine)	Wild swine	Wild soliped	Wild leporidae (rabbits and hares)	Wild game birds	Wild land mamma-lian game (excluding ungulates, solipeds and leporidae)
AR	Argentina AR	C	C	C	A	A	A	A	C	C	XXX	A	D	XXX
	Argentina AR-1 a	C	C	C	A	A	A	A	C	C	XXX	A	D	XXX
	Argentina AR-2 a	A b	A b	C	A	A	A	A	C	C	XXX	A	D	XXX
AU	Australia	A	A	A	A	D	D	A	A	A	XXX	A	D	A
BH	Bahrain	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	C	C	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
BR	Brazil	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	D	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
	Brazil BR-1	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	A	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	A	XXX
	Brazil BR-2	C	C	C	A	D	D	A	C	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
	Brazil BR-3	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	A	XXX	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
BW	Botswana	B	B	B	B	XXX	A	A	B	B	A	A	XXX	XXX
BY	Belarus	C	C	C	B	XXX	XXX	A	C	C	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
CA	Canada	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	XXX	A	A	A
CH	Switzerland d
CL	Chile	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	A	XXX
CN	China	B	B	B	B	B	B	A	B	B	XXX	A	B	XXX
	China CN-1	B	B	B	B	D	B	A	B	B	XXX	A	B	XXX
CO	Colombia	B	B	B	B	XXX	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
ET	Ethiopia	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
GL	Greenland	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	A	A
HK	Hong Kong	B	B	B	B	D	D	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
HR	Croatia	A	A	D	A	A	A	A	A	D	XXX	A	A	XXX
IL	Israel	B	B	B	B	A	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	A	XXX
IN	India	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
IS	Iceland	A	A	B	A	A	A	A	A	B	XXX	A	A	XXX
KE	Kenya	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
KR	South Korea	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	D	D	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
MA	Morocco	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
ME	Montenegro	A	A	D	A	D	D	A	D	D	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
MG	Madagascar	B	B	B	B	D	D	A	B	B	XXX	A	D	XXX
MK	former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia e	A	A	B	A	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
MU	Mauritius	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
MX	Mexico	A	D	D	A	D	D	A	D	D	XXX	A	D	XXX
MY	Malaysia MY	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
	Malaysia MY-1	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	D	D	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
NA	Namibia a	B	B	B	B	D	A	A	B	B	A	A	D	XXX
NC	New Caledonia	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
NZ	New Zealand	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	XXX	A	A	A
PY	Paraguay	C	C	C	B	XXX	XXX	A	C	C	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
RS	Serbia f	A	A	D	A	D	D	A	D	D	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
RU	Russia	C	C	C	B	A c	XXX	A	C	C	XXX	A	XXX	A
SG	Singapore	B	B	B	B	D	D	A	B	B	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
SZ	Swaziland	B	B	B	B	XXX	XXX	A	B	B	A	A	XXX	XXX
TH	Thailand	B	B	B	B	A	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	D	XXX
TN	Tunisia	C	C	B	B	A	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	D	XXX
TR	Turkey	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	D	D	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
UA	Ukraine	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
US	United States	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	A	XXX	A	A	XXX
UY	Uruguay	C	C	B	A	D	A	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	D	XXX
[F5 ZA	South Africa a	C	C	C	A	D	D	A	C	C	A	A	D	XXX]
[ F3 ]
ZW	Zimbabwe a	C	C	B	A	D	A	A	B	B	XXX	A	D	XXX

Textual Amendments

F5 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 110/2012 of 9 February 2012 amending Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entries for South Africa in the lists of third countries or parts thereof (Text with EEA relevance).

Textual Amendments

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 925/2010 of 15 October 2010 amending Decision 2007/777/EC and Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards transit through the Union of poultry meat and poultry meat products from Russia (Text with EEA relevance).

[F6 PART 3 U.K. Third countries or parts thereof not authorised for certain species under the non-specific treatment regime (A) but from where imports into the Community of biltong/jerky and pasteurised meat products are authorised

XXX No certificate laid down and imports into the Community of biltong/jerky and pasteurised meat products are not authorised unless the country is authorised in Part 2 for treatment ‘ A ’ for the relevant species.]
ISO code	Country of origin or part thereof	1. Domestic bovine 2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine)	Domestic ovine/caprine	1. Domestic porcine 2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game (swine)	Domestic soliped	1. Poultry 2. Farmed feathered game	Ratites	Domestic rabbit and farmed leporidae	Wild cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine)	Wild swine	Wild soliped	Wild leporidae (rabbits and hares)	Wild game birds	Wild land mammalian game (excluding ungulates, solipeds and leporidae)
AR	Argentina — AR	F	F	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	XXX	XXX
NA	Namibia	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	E	E	A	XXX	XXX	A	A	E	XXX
	Namibia NA-1	E	E	XXX	XXX	E	E	A	XXX	XXX	A	A	E
UY	Uruguay	E	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX
[F5 ZA	South Africa	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	D	D	A	XXX	XXX	A	A	D	XXX
	South Africa ZA-1	E	E	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	A	E	XXX	A	A	XXX	XXX]
ZW	Zimbabwe	XXX	XXX	XXX	XXX	E	E	A	XXX	XXX	E	A	E	XXX

Textual Amendments

F6 Substituted by Commission Decision of 30 November 2009 amending Decision 2007/777/EC as regards imports into the Community of biltong from certain parts of South Africa and from Uruguay (notified under document C(2009) 9362) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/864/EC).

PART 4 U.K. Interpretation of codes used in tables in parts 2 and 3

TREATMENTS REFERRED TO IN ANNEX I U.K.

Non-specific treatment:

A

=

No minimum specified temperature or other treatment is established for animal health purposes for meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines. However, the meat of such meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines must have undergone a treatment such that its cut surface shows that it no longer has the characteristics of fresh meat and the fresh meat used must also satisfy the animal health rules applicable to exports of fresh meat into the Community.

Specific treatments listed in descending order of severity:

B

=

Treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an F_o value of three or more.

C

=

A minimum temperature of 80 °C which must be reached throughout the meat and/or stomachs, bladders and intestines during the processing of the meat product and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines.

D

=

A minimum temperature of 70 °C which must be reached throughout the meat and/or stomachs, bladders and intestines during the processing of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, or for raw ham, a treatment consisting of natural fermentation and maturation of not less than nine months and resulting in the following characteristics:

• A_w value of not more than 0,93,

• pH value of not more than 6,0.

E

=

In the case of ‘biltong’-type products, a treatment to achieve:

• A_w value of not more than 0,93,

• pH value of not more than 6,0.

F

=

A heat treatment ensuring that a centre temperature of at least 65 °C is reached for a period of time as necessary to achieve a pasteurisation value (pv) equal to or above 40.