Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/20054 lays down implementing measures for Regulations (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004.

Annex VI to Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 lays down model health certificates for imports of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption. These certificates have been developed to comply with the expert system Traces developed by the Commission to follow any movements of animals and products derived therefrom within the EU territory and from third countries. Particulars concerning the description of the commodities have recently been updated. The existing model health certificates should therefore be amended accordingly.

Regulations (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council5 and (EC) No 853/2004 lay down rules on the production of fishery products, live bivalve molluscs and honey intended for human consumption. Specific requirements, including model health certificates, should be laid down in Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 for imports of these products from third countries. Existing Decisions setting the import certificates should consequently be repealed after a delay to give third countries the possibility to adapt their legislation.

It is also appropriate to simplify the certification procedure for fishery products and live bivalve molluscs and, for consignments intended for human consumption, to incorporate the animal health certification requirements set out in Commission Decision 2003/804/EC of 14 November 2003 laying down animal health conditions and certification requirements for imports of molluscs their eggs and gametes for further growth, fattening, relaying or human consumption6, and Commission Decision 2003/858/EC of 21 November 2003 laying down animal health conditions and certification requirements for imports of live fish, their eggs and gametes intended for farming, and live fish of aquaculture origin and products thereof intended for human consumption7.

In accordance with Article 11(4) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004, methods for analysis and testing of milk and milk-based products should be established. In this context, the Community reference laboratory has compiled a list of updated reference methods, which was approved by national reference laboratories during their 2005 meeting. It is therefore necessary to provide in Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 the last agreed list of reference methods of analysis and testing to be used to monitor compliance with the requirements laid down in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004. Commission decision 91/180/CEEof 14 February 1991 laying down certain methods of analysis and testing of raw milk and heat-treated milk8 should consequently be repealed. A delay should be granted to give the Member States the time to comply with the new methods.

Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 establishes the analytical methods for the detection of the paralytic shellfish poison (PSP) content of edible parts of molluscs (the whole body or any part edible separately). The so-called Lawrence method as published in AOAC Official Method 2005.06 (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Toxins in Shellfish) should be considered as an alternative method for the detection of PSP in bivalve molluscs. Its use should be reviewed in light of the analytical work currently carried out by the Community Reference Laboratory for marine biotoxins.

Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,