Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance)
Introductory Text
CHAPTER I SUBJECT MATTER, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS
Article 1.Subject matter and scope
Article 2.Definitions
CHAPTER II GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR IMPORTS AND TRANSIT
Article 3.Lists of third countries, territories, zones or compartments of origin from which commodities may be imported into and transit through the Community
Article 4.Veterinary certification
Article 5.Conditions for imports and transit
Article 6.Examination, sampling and testing procedures
Article 7.Disease reporting requirements
CHAPTER III ANIMAL HEALTH STATUS OF THIRD COUNTRIES, TERRITORIES, ZONES OR COMPARTMENTS OF ORIGIN WITH REGARD TO AVIAN INFLUENZA AND NEWCASTLE DISEASE
Article 8.Avian influenza free third countries, territories, zones or compartments
Article 9.HPAI free third countries, territories, zones and compartments
Article 10.Avian influenza surveillance programmes
Article 11.Vaccination against avian influenza
Article 12.Newcastle disease free third countries, territories, zones and compartments
Article 13.Derogations concerning the use of vaccines against Newcastle disease
CHAPTER IV SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR IMPORTS
Article 14.Specific conditions for imports of poultry, hatching eggs and day-old chicks
Article 15.Specific conditions for imports of specified pathogen-free eggs
Article 16.Specific conditions for transport of poultry and day-old chicks
Article 17.Specific conditions for imports of meat of ratites
CHAPTER V SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR TRANSIT
Article 18. Derogations for transit through Latvia, Lithuania and Poland
Article 18a. Derogation for transit through Croatia of consignments coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina and destined to third countries
CHAPTER VI TRANSITIONAL AND FINAL PROVISIONS
Article 19.Repeals
Article 20.Transitional provisions
Article 21.Entry into force
Signature
ANNEX I
POULTRY, HATCHING EGGS, DAY-OLD CHICKS, SPECIFIED PATHOGEN-FREE EGGS, MEAT, MINCED MEAT, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT, EGGS AND EGG PRODUCTS
PART 1 List of third countries, territories, zones or compartments
PART 2
Model veterinary certificates
Model(s):
Additional guarantees (AG):
Salmonella control programme:
Specific conditions:
Avian influenza surveillance programme and avian influenza vaccination plan:
Notes
General notes:
(a) Veterinary certificates based on the models in Part 2 of...
(b) A separate, single certificate must be presented for each consignment...
(c) The original of certificates shall consist of a single page...
(d) The certificate shall be drawn up in at least one...
(e) Where additional pages are attached to the certificate for the...
(f) Where the certificate, including any additional pages as provided for...
(g) The original of the certificate must be completed and signed...
(h) The original of the certificate must accompany the consignment as...
Additional notes for poultry and day-old chicks:
(i) The certificate shall be valid for 10 days from the...
(j) Poultry and day-old chicks shall not be transported with other...
(k) Poultry and day-old chicks shall not in the course of...
Model veterinary certificate for breeding or productive poultry other than...
Model veterinary certificate for breeding or productive ratites (BPR)
Model veterinary certificate for day-old chicks other than of ratites...
Model veterinary certificate for day-old chicks of ratites (DOR)
Model veterinary certificate for hatching eggs of poultry other than...
Model veterinary certificate for hatching eggs of ratites (HER)
Model veterinary certificate for specified pathogen-free eggs (SPF)
Model veterinary certificate for slaughter poultry and poultry for restocking...
Model veterinary certificate for slaughter ratites (SRA)
Model veterinary certificate for meat of poultry (POU)
Model veterinary certificate for minced meat and mechanically separated meat...
Model veterinary certificate for meat of farmed ratites for human...
Model veterinary certificate for minced meat and mechanically separated meat...
Model veterinary certificate for wild game-bird meat (WGM)
Model veterinary certificate for wild game-bird minced meat and mechanically...
Model veterinary certificate for eggs (E)
Model veterinary certificate for egg products (EP)
ANNEX II
(as referred to in Article 4)
(To be completed and attached to the veterinary certificate where...
ANNEX III
COMMUNITY ACTS, INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR EXAMINATION, SAMPLING AND TESTING AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 6
I. Before import into the Community
II. After import into the Community
Sampling and testing procedures for avian influenza and Newcastle disease:...
III. General requirements
ANNEX IV
(as referred to in Article 8(2)(d), Article 9(2)(b) and Article 10
I. Requirements for avian influenza surveillance in poultry carried out in...
A. surveillance for avian influenza in poultry:
B. where available information on surveillance for avian influenza in wild...
II. Avian influenza surveillance to be carried out following the occurrence...
ANNEX V
(as referred to in Article 11(a))
I. Requirements for vaccination plans carried out in a third country,...
II. Surveillance for third countries, territories, zones or compartments that carry...
ANNEX VI
(as referred to in Article 12(1)(b), Article 12(2)(c)(ii) and Article 13(1)(a))
CRITERIA FOR RECOGNISED NEWCASTLE DISEASE VACCINES
I. General criteria
1. Vaccines must comply with the standards set out in the...
2. Vaccines must be registered by the competent authorities of the...
3. In addition, imports or production and distribution of the vaccines...
4. Before distribution is allowed, each batch of vaccines must be...
II. Specific criteria
ANNEX VII
(as referred to in Article 13)
I. For poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs coming from a...
II. For meat of poultry
ANNEX VIII
(as referred to in Article 14(1)(a))
I. Requirements applicable before import
II. Requirements applicable after imports
ANNEX IX
(as referred to in Article 14(1)(b))
I. Requirements applicable before import
II. Requirements applicable after import
III. Requirements for ratites for breeding and production and day-old chicks...
IV. Requirements for ratites for breeding and production from a third...
ANNEX X
(as referred to in Article 17)
I. For ratites
II. For ratites from which meat for import is derived
ANNEX XI
(as referred to in Article 18(2))
Model veterinary certificate for transit/storage of specified pathogen-free eggs, meat,...
ANNEX XII
(as referred to in Article 20)