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Official Journal of the European Union
9.4.2011
REGULATIONS
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 342/2011
of 8 April 2011
amending Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories
or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and
fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(3) On
25
February
2011,
South
Africa
notified
the
World
Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) of outbreaks of
foot-and-mouth disease. In the absence of clinical signs,
the outbreaks were confirmed on 11 February 2011
based on serology.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(4) According to the notification, the outbreaks were
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of
detected in two neighbouring districts in the north-
16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
eastern part of the KwaZulu-Natal province. These
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro
districts are part of the territories of South Africa from
duction of products of animal origin for human
which export into the Union of fresh de-boned and
consumption ( 1 ), and in particular the introductory phrase of
matured meat from ungulates are authorised. Those terri
Article 8, the first subparagraph of Article 8(1), and
tories are set out in Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU)
Article 8(4) thereof,
No 206/2010.
Whereas:
(5) Due to the risk of introduction of foot-and-mouth
disease through import into the Union of fresh meat
from species susceptible to that disease and in absence
of guarantees allowing for regionalisation of South
(1) Commission
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
( 2 ) lays down
Africa, the authorisation to export such fresh meat into
the veterinary certification requirements for the intro
the Union should no longer apply. The entry for South
duction into the Union of certain consignments of live
Africa in Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No
animals or fresh meat. It also lays down the lists of third
206/2010 should be amended accordingly.
countries, territories or parts thereof from which those
consignments may be introduced into the Union.
(2) Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 provides that (6) Annex
II
to
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
should
consignments of fresh meat intended for human
therefore be amended accordingly.
consumption are to be imported into the Union only if
they come from the third countries, territories or parts
thereof listed in Part 1 of Annex II to that Regulation for
which there is a model veterinary certificate corre
sponding to the consignment concerned listed in that
Part.
(7) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
( 1 ) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
( 2 ) OJ L 73, 20.3.2010, p. 1.
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

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EN
9.4.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
96/11
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
In Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010, the entry for South Africa is replaced by the
following:
‘ZA – South
Africa
ZA-0 Whole
country
EQU,
EQW
ZA-1 The
whole
country
except:
— the part of the foot-and-mouth disease
control area situated in the veterinary
regions of Mpumalanga and Northern BOV,
provinces, in the district of Ingwavuma OVI,
of the veterinary region of Natal and in RUF,
F
1 11
February
2011’
the border area with Botswana east of RUW
longitude 28°, and
— the district of Camperdown, in the
province of KwaZulu-Natal.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following 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, 8 April 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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