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Official Journal of the European Union
3.4.2013
DECISIONS
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 27 March 2013
repealing Decisions 2003/135/EC, 2004/832/EC and 2005/59/EC approving plans for the eradication
of classical swine fever and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs in Germany, France and
Slovakia
(notified under document C(2013) 1741)
(Only the French, German and Slovakian texts are authentic)
(2013/164/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Member States for 2013 ( 5 ) approves, inter alia, the
programmes for the control and monitoring of classical
swine fever submitted by Germany and Slovakia.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(3) In
2011
France
and
Slovakia
informed
the
Commission
and the Member States of the favourable classical swine
Having regard to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October
fever situation in their territory. The information
2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine
provided indicated that classical swine fever had been
fever ( 1 ), and in particular Article 16(1), Article 20(2),
successfully eradicated from the feral pigs in the
Article 25(3) and Article 29(2) thereof,
affected areas of those Member States. In addition, in
2012, Germany informed the Commission and the
Member States that classical swine fever was successfully
Whereas:
eradicated from the feral pigs in the affected areas of that
Member State.
(1) Commission
Decision
2003/135/EC
of
27
February
2003 on the approval of the plans for the eradication
(4) According
to
the
information
submitted
by
France,
of classical swine fever and the emergency vaccination of
Germany and Slovakia, the emergency vaccination of
feral pigs against classical swine fever in Germany, in the
feral pigs was stopped. In addition, a high level of
federal states of Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia,
surveillance in the areas previously affected by the
Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
(
disease is maintained as part of the programmes

2 ), Commission
Decision 2004/832/EC of 3 December 2004 approving
approved by Implementing Decision 2012/761/EU. The
the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in
measures provided for in the plans for the eradication of
feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of such pigs in
classical swine fever and the emergency vaccination of
the Northern Vosges, France
(
feral pigs against classical swine fever approved for those

3 ) and Commission
Decision 2005/59/EC of 26 January 2005 approving
Member States are therefore no longer necessary.
the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in
feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of such pigs in
Slovakia (
(5)
For reasons of clarity and consistency of Union legis

4 ) were adopted following the confirmation of
classical swine fever in feral pigs in certain regions of
lation, Decisions 2003/135/EC, 2004/832/EC and
France, Germany and Slovakia, respectively. By those
2005/59/EC should therefore be repealed.
Decisions, the plans for the eradication of classical
swine fever and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs
against that disease were approved for those Member
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
States.
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
(2) Commission
Implementing
Decision
2012/761/EU
of
30 November 2012 approving annual and multiannual
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
programmes and the financial contribution from the
Union for the eradication, control and monitoring of
certain animal diseases and zoonoses presented by the
Article 1
Decisions 2003/135/EC, 2004/832/EC and 2005/59/EC are
( 1 ) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5.
repealed.
( 2 ) OJ L 53, 28.2.2003, p. 47.
( 3 ) OJ L 359, 4.12.2004, p. 62.
( 4 ) OJ L 24, 27.1.2005, p. 46.
( 5 ) OJ L 336, 8.12.2012, p. 83.

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EN
3.4.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
91/11
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany, the French Republic and the Slovak
Republic.
Done at Brussels, 27 March 2013.
For the Commission
Tonio BORG
Member of the Commission

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