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6.10.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
261/19
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 991/2011
of 5 October 2011
amending Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC and Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as
regards the entries for South Africa in the lists of third countries or parts thereof with respect
to highly pathogenic avian influenza
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
poultry products may be imported into and transit
through the Community and the veterinary certification
requirements ( 5 ) lays down veterinary certification
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
requirements for imports into and transit, including
Union,
storage during transit, through the Union of poultry,
hatching eggs, day-old chicks, specified pathogen-free
eggs, meat, minced meat and mechanically separated
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of
meat of poultry, including ratites and wild game birds,
16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
eggs and egg products. That Regulation provides that
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro
those commodities are only to be imported into the
duction of products of animal origin for human
Union from the third countries, territories, zones or
consumption ( 1 ) and in particular the introductory phrase of
compartments listed in Part 1 of Annex I thereto.
Article 8, the first paragraph of point 1 of Article 8 and
point 4 of Article 8 thereof,
(4) Due
to
recent
outbreaks
of
highly
pathogenic
avian
Having regard to Council Directive 2009/158/EC of
influenza (HPAI) in South Africa, Decision 2007/777/EC
30 November 2009 on animal health conditions governing
and Regulation (EC) No
798/2008 were amended
intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries
by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU)
of, poultry and hatching eggs (
No 536/2011 ( 6 ), in order to prescribe specific treatments

2 ), and in particular Articles
23(1) and 24(2) thereof,
for imports from South Africa of meat products, treated
stomachs, bladders and intestines for human
consumption obtained from meat of farmed ratites and
Whereas:
of biltong/jerky and pasteurised meat products consisting
of, or containing meat of farmed feathered game, ratites
and wild game birds which are sufficient to eliminate
(1) Commission
Decision
2007/777/EC
of
29
November
animal health risks linked to these commodities and to
2007 laying down the animal and public health
prohibit imports of breeding and productive ratites and
conditions and model certificates for imports of certain
of day-old chicks, hatching eggs and meat of ratites. from
meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and
the whole territory of South Africa covered by Regulation
intestines for human consumption from third countries
(EC) No 798/2008.
and repealing Decision 2005/432/EC ( 3 ) lays down rules
on imports into the Union and the transit and storage in
the Union of consignments of meat products, and of
(5) South
Africa
has
submitted
information
to
the
consignments of treated stomachs, bladders and
Commission on the control measures taken in relation
intestines, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004
to the recent HPAI outbreaks. The Commission has
of the European Parliament and of the Council of
evaluated that information and the epidemiological
29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for
situation following those outbreaks in South Africa.
food of animal origin ( 4 ).
(2) Decision
2007/777/EC
also
lays
down
lists
of
third (6) In
addition,
the
Union’s
Veterinary
Emergency
Team
countries and parts thereof from which such imports
carried out a mission to South Africa to assess the
and transit and storage are to be authorised, sets out
situation and give recommendations to improve disease
the model public and animal health certificates, and the
control.
rules on the origin and treatments required for those
imported products.
(7) South
Africa
has
implemented
a
stamping-out
policy
in
(3) Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
798/2008
of
8
August
order to control the disease and limit its spread. South
2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories,
Africa is carrying out surveillance activities for avian
zones or compartments from which poultry and
influenza which appear to meet the requirements laid
down in Part II of Annex IV to Regulation (EC)
No 798/2008.
( 1 ) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
( 2 ) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 74.
( 3 ) OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 49.
( 5 ) OJ L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55.
( 6 ) OJ L 147, 2.6.2011, p. 1.

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Official Journal of the European Union
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(8)
The positive outcome of the evaluation of the disease
(11) Decision 2007/777/EC and Regulation (EC) No
situation and the epidemiological investigations carried
798/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
out by South Africa allow limiting the restrictions on
imports of ratite meat into the Union to the disease-
affected part of the territory of South Africa, placed
under restrictions by South Africa. However, the
(12) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
restrictions on imports of live ratites and their hatching
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
eggs should be maintained for the whole territory of
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
South Africa owing to the higher risk for a possible
virus introduction into the Union.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(9) With
respect
to
the
treatments
laid
down
in
Decision
2007/777/EC for imports of certain meat products,
treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for human
Article 1
consumption as well as for biltong/jerky and pasteurised
meat products, the treatments applied before the
Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended in accordance
occurrence of the HPAI outbreaks should again be
with Annex I to this Regulation.
applied for those commodities originating from the
disease-free part of the territory of South Africa.
Article 2
(10) Part
1
of
Annex
II
to
Decision
2007/777/EC
lists
the
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended in
territories or parts of territories of third countries to
accordance with Annex II to this Regulation.
which regionalisation for animal health reasons applies.
South Africa’s entry should be amended to take account
of the new disease situation as regards HPAI in that third
Article 3
country and the resulting consequences for the
restrictions on imports of affected commodities into
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the Union.
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 5 October 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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EN
6.10.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
261/21
ANNEX I
Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended as follows:
(1) in Part 1, the entry for South Africa is replaced by the following:
ZA 01/2005 Whole
country
ZA-1 01/2005 The
whole
country
except:
the part of the foot-and-mouth disease control area situated in the veterinary regions of
Mpumalanga and Northern provinces, the district of Ingwavuma in the veterinary region
of Natal and in the border area with Botswana east of longitude 28°, and the district of
Camperdown in the province of KwaZuluNatal.
ZA-2 01/2011 The
whole
country
except:
‘South Africa
the part of the territory within the following boundaries:
— to the North: Swart Berg Mountain range,
— to the South: Outeniqua Mountain range,
— to the East: R339 road linking the Swartberg Mountain range with the Outeniqua
Mountain range, from Barandas through Uniondale,
— to the West: Gamka Mountains linking the Swartenberg Mountain range with the
Gamka river in a southerly direction towards the Outeniqua Mountains.’
(2) in Part 2, the entry for South Africa is replaced by the following:
South Africa ( 1 )
C
C
C
A
D
D
A
C
C
A
A
D XXX
‘ZA-0
Whole country ZA-0
ZA-2 South
Africa
ZA-2
( 1 ) XXX XXX XXX XXX
D
A XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
D XXX’
(3) in Part 3, the entry for South Africa is replaced by the following:
South Africa XXX XXX XXX XXX
D
D
A XXX XXX
A
A
D XXX
‘ZA
South Africa ZA-1
E
E XXX XXX XXX XXX
A
E XXX
A
A XXX XXX
South Africa ZA-2 XXX XXX XXX XXX
E
E XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX
E XXX’

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L 261/22
ANNEX II
In Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, the entry for South Africa is replaced by the following:
SPF
EN
EP, E
S4’

ZA-0 Whole
country
BPR
I
DOR II
P2 9.4.2011
A
HER III
ZA-1 Whole
country
excluding
ZA-2 RAT VII 9.10.2011
‘ZA — South Africa
Part of the territory within the following boundaries:
Off
— to the North: Swart Berg Mountain range,
icial
— to the South: Outeniqua Mountain range,
Jour
ZA-2
— to the East: R339 road linking the Swartberg Mountain
RAT VII P2 9.4.2011
nal
range with the Outeniqua Mountain range, from Barandas
of
through Uniondale,
the
— to the West: Gamka Mountains linking the Swartenberg
European
Mountain range with the Gamka river in a southerly
direction towards the Outeniqua Mountains.
Union
6.10.2011

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