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Official Journal of the European Union
29.6.2013
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 631/2013
of 28 June 2013
repealing Regulation (EC) No 546/2006 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 233/2012
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) For
reasons
of
clarity
and
simplification
of
Union
legis
lation, Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No 630/2013
Union,
of 28 June 2013 amending the Annexes to Regulation
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European
(EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain
and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( 1 ), and in particular
encephalopathies ( 4 ), sets out the list of the Member
point (b)(iii) of Section I of Chapter A of Annex VIII thereto,
States with an approved national control programme
for classical scrapie and the corresponding additional
Whereas:
guarantees from which those Member States benefit
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
999/2001
lays
down
rules
for
the
regarding the movements of ovine and caprine animals,
prevention, control and eradication of transmissible
as well as of their semen and embryos.
spongiform encephalopathies (‘TSEs’) in animals. Annex
VIII thereto provides for the approval and subsequent
(5) The
amendments
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
999/2001
set
amendment of the national scrapie control programmes
out in Regulation (EU) No 630/2013 apply from 1 July
of the Member States if they comply with certain criteria
2013. The provisions of Regulation (EC) No 546/2006
laid down in that Regulation.
and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 233/2012
become therefore redundant on that date. In the
(2) Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
546/2006
of
31
March
interest of legal clarity and certainty, those Regulations
2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the
should therefore be repealed on the same date.
European Parliament and of the Council as regards
national scrapie control programmes and additional guar
antees and derogating from certain requirements of
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
Decision 2003/100/EC and repealing Regulation (EC)
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
No 1874/2003 (
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

2 ) approves the national scrapie control
programmes of certain Member States. It also lays down
the additional guarantees from which those Member
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
States can benefit regarding the movements of ovine
and caprine animals, as well as of their semen and
Article 1
embryos.
Regulation (EC) No 546/2006 and Implementing Regulation
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No (EU) No 233/2012 are repealed with effect from 1 July 2013.
233/2012 of 16 March 2012 implementing Regulation
(EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of
Article 2
the Council as regards the approval of the amended
national scrapie control programme for Denmark ( 3 )
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day
approves the amended national scrapie control
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
programme for Denmark.
European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 28 June 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 94, 1.4.2006, p. 28.
( 3 ) OJ L 78, 17.3.2012, p. 13.
( 4 ) See page 60 of this Official Journal.

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