Decision 2000/572/EC is amended as follows:
Article 3 is replaced by the following:
The importation of meat preparations is subject to the following conditions:
they have been produced in accordance with the relevant requirements laid down in Regulations (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1), (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(2), (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council(3) and (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council(4) as specified in the health certificate referred to in Article 4(2) of this Decision;
they come from an establishment or establishments implementing a programme based on the hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) principles in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;
they have been frozen at an internal temperature of not more than – 18 °C at the production plant or plants of origin.’;
Article 4a is amended as follows:
in point (a), ‘Decision 94/984/EC’ is replaced by ‘Commission Decision 2006/696/EC(5)
in point (b), the words ‘Decision 94/984/EC’ are replaced by ‘Decision 2006/696/EC’.
Annexes II and III are replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
This Decision shall apply from 1 July 2008.
However, consignments of meat preparations for which health certificates were issued in accordance with the model established by Decision 2000/572/EC before the amendments introduced by the present Decision and with an issue date prior to 31 December 2008, shall be accepted for import into the Community until 1 April 2009.
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 3 July 2008.
For the Commission
Androulla Vassiliou
Member of the Commission