Commission Decision of 30 November 2010 amending Decisions 2005/692/EC, 2005/734/EC, 2006/415/EC, 2007/25/EC and 2009/494/EC as regards avian influenza (notified under document C(2010) 8282) (Text with EEA relevance) (2010/734/EU)

Article 2 U.K.

Decision 2005/734/EC is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4. Member States shall regularly review the measures they have taken pursuant to paragraph 1, and in the light of the surveillance programmes that they have carried out in accordance with Article 4 of Council Directive 2005/94/EC(1), in order to adjust to the changing epidemiological and ornithological situation, the areas of their territory that they have identified as being particularly at risk from the introduction of avian influenza.’;

2.

in Article 2a(1), point (d) is replaced by the following:

‘(d)

the use of birds of the orders Anseriformes and Charadriiformes as decoy birds (decoy birds).’;

3.

in Article 2b(1), point (d) is amended as follows:

(a)

the introductory phrase and (i) is replaced by the following:

‘(d)

the use of decoy birds:

(i)

by decoy bird holders registered with the competent authority, under the strict supervision of the competent authority for the attraction of wild birds intended for sampling pursuant to the Member States’ programmes for avian influenza, research projects, ornithological studies or any other activity approved by the competent authority; or’;

(b)

in (ii), the third indent is replaced by the following:

• ‘the recording and reporting of the health status of decoy birds and laboratory testing for avian influenza in the case of deaths of such birds and at the end of the period of use in the area identified at particular risk for the introduction of avian influenza,’;

4.

in Article 4, the date ‘31 December 2010’ is replaced by ‘30 June 2012’.

(1)

OJ L 10, 14.1.2006, p. 16.’;