Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/887
of 2 June 2016
amending Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC as regards the list of third countries or parts thereof from which the introduction into the Union of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines is authorised
(notified under document C(2016) 3215)
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Whereas:
Where third countries are regionalised for the purpose of being listed in Decision 2007/777/EC the regionalised parts of their territory are listed in Part 1 of Annex II thereto.
Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC sets out the list of third countries or parts thereof which are authorised for the introduction into the Union of the commodities, provided that they have undergone a relevant treatment referred to in that Part of Annex II. Those treatments are aimed at eliminating certain animal health risks linked to the specific commodities. Part 4 of that Annex sets out a non-specific treatment ‘A’ and specific treatments ‘B’ to ‘F’ listed in descending order of severity of the animal health risk linked to the specific commodity.
As the commodities to be introduced into the Union must undergo a treatment set out in Part 4 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC, the description of the regionalised territories of Argentina and Brazil for the commodities referred to as AR-1, AR-2 and BR-2 in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC, should be amended in order to be aligned with the regionalisation applied to Argentina and Brazil for the introduction into the Union of fresh meat of domestic bovine animals as described in Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010.
Therefore that part of the territory of Brazil should be listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC as BR-4. Consignments of commodities obtained from domestic bovine animals from the part of Brazil described as BR-4, should be authorised for introduction into the Union, subject to the specific treatment ‘B’ as set out in Part 4 of that Annex and therefore BR-4 should be listed in Part 2 of that Annex.
Parts 1 and 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: