Commission Decision

of 7 April 2010

amending Decision 2008/855/EC as regards animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany

(notified under document C(2010) 2061)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2010/211/EU)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market [1], and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market [2], and in particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Decision 2008/855/EC of 3 November 2008 concerning animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in certain Member States [3] lays down certain control measures concerning classical swine fever in the Member States or regions thereof set out in the Annex to that Decision.

(2) Germany has informed the Commission about the recent developments with regard to that disease in feral pigs in certain areas of the federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

(3) That information indicates that classical swine fever in feral pigs has been eradicated in certain areas of those federal states. Accordingly, those areas where the situation improved should be removed from the list in the Annex to Decision 2008/855/EC and the measures provided for in that Decision should no longer apply to them.

(4) For the sake of transparency of Union legislation, the entire part of the list set out in the Annex to Decision 2008/855/EC which concerns Germany should be replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

(5) Decision 2008/855/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

In the Annex to Decision 2008/855/EC, point 1 of Part I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 7 April 2010.

For the Commission

John Dalli

Member of the Commission

[1] OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13.

[2] OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29.

[3] OJ L 302, 13.11.2008, p. 19.

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ANNEX

"1. Germany

A. In the federal state Rhineland-Palatinate

(a) the Kreise Altenkirchen and Neuwied;

(b) in the Kreis Westerwald: the municipalities Bad Marienberg, Hachenburg, Ransbach-Baumbach, Rennerod, Selters, Wallmerod and Westerburg, the municipality H?hr-Grenzhausen north of the motorway A48, the municipality Montabaur north of the motorway A3 and the municipality Wirges north of the motorways A48 and A3;

(c) in the Landkreis Südwestpfalz: the municipalities Thaleischweiler-Fr?schen, Waldfischbach-Burgalben, Rodalben and Wallhalben. In the Kreis Kaiserslautern: the municipalities Bruchmühlbach-Miesau in the south of the motorway A6, Kaiserslautern-Süd and Landstuhl;

(d) the city of Kaiserslautern in the south of the motorway A6.

B. In the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia

(a) in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis: the cities Bad Honnef, K?nigswinter, Hennef (Sieg), Sankt Augustin, Niederkassel, Troisdorf, Siegburg and Lohmar and the municipalities Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Eitorf, Ruppichteroth, Windeck and Much;

(b) in the Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein in the municipality Kreuztal the localities Krombach, Eichen, Fellinghausen, Osthelden, Junkernhees and Mittelhees, in the city Siegen the localities Sohlbach, Dillnhütten, Geisweid, Birlenbach, Trupbach, Seelbach, Achenbach, Lindenberg, Rosterberg, R?dgen, Obersdorf, Eisern and Eiserfeld, the municipalities Freudenberg, Neunkirchen and Burbach, in the municipality Wilnsdorf the localities Rinsdorf and Wilden;

(c) in the Kreis Olpe in the city Drolshagen the localities Drolshagen, Lüdespert, Schlade, Hützemert, Feldmannshof, Gipperich, Benolpe, Wormberg, Gelsingen, Husten, Halbhusten, Iseringhausen, Brachtpe, Berlinghausen, Eichen, Heiderhof, Forth and Buchhagen, in the city Olpe the localities Olpe, Rhode, Sa?micke, Dahl, Friedrichsthal, Thieringhausen, Günsen, Altenkleusheim, Rhonard, Stachelau, Lütringhausen and Rüblinghausen, the municipality Wenden;

(d) in the M?rkische Kreis the cities Halver, Kierspe and Meinerzhagen;

(e) in the city Remscheid the localities Halle, Lusebusch, Hackenberg, D?rper H?he, Niederlangenbach, Durchsholz, Nagelsberg, Kleebach, Niederfeldbach, Endringhausen, Lennep, Westerholt, Grenzwall, Birgden, Schneppendahl, Oberfeldbach, Hasenberg, Lüdorf, Engelsburg, Forsten, Oberlangenbach, Niederlangenbach, Karlsruhe, Sonnenschein, Buchholzen, Bornefeld and Bergisch Born;

(f) in the cities K?ln and Bonn the municipalities on the right side of the river Rhine;

(g) the city Leverkusen;

(h) the Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis;

(i) the Oberbergische Kreis."

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