Article 1
Regulation (EC) No 639/2003 is amended as follows:
In Article 2(2), the third subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘The veterinarian authority responsible for the exit point shall keep this report for at least three years. A copy of this report shall be sent to the paying agency.’
In Article 3(2), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
‘The checks provided for in paragraph 1 shall be carried out by a veterinarian holding a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualification in veterinary medicine as referred to in Article 2 of Council Directive 78/1026/EEC(1). However, the Member States, which have approved the international control and supervisory agencies, referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph shall verify that these agencies check that veterinarians holding a qualification not covered by that Directive possess the knowledge of the requirements imposed by Directive 91/628/EEC. These checks shall be carried out in a reasonable, objective and impartial manner through appropriate procedures.’
In Article 8, point (d) is replaced by the following:
the reasons for the non-payment and the recovery of the refund for the animals referred to in points (b) and (c), as well as the number of those animals recorded under category B, C and D respectively as referred to in Annexes I, II and III;
the numbers of penalties for each category defined in Article 6(1) and (2) with the corresponding numbers of animals and amounts of refund not paid;’.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 1(1) and (2) shall apply to the export declarations accepted from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 28 February 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann Fischer Boel
Member of the Commission