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10.8.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
205/27
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 801/2011
of 9 August 2011
amending 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,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human
consumption ( 1 ), and in particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first subparagraph of
Article 8(1), and Article 8(4), thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
( 2 ) lays down the veterinary certification requirements for
the introduction into the Union of certain consignments of live animals or fresh meat. It also lays
down the lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof from which those consignments may be
introduced into the Union.
(2) Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
provides
that
consignments
of
fresh
meat
intended
for
human
consumption are to be imported into the Union only if they come from the third countries, terri
tories or parts thereof listed in Part 1 of Annex II to that Regulation for which there is a model
veterinary certificate corresponding to the consignment concerned listed in that Part.
(3)
Four parts of the territory of Botswana are listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No
206/2010 as regions from which imports of fresh de-boned and matured meat from ungulates into
the Union are authorised. Those regions consist of a number of veterinary disease control zones.
(4)
On 5 May 2011, Botswana informed the Commission of a suspicion of foot-and-mouth disease
based on clinical signs found in eight cattle on a farm. The outbreaks were confirmed, and notified to
the Commission, on 11 May 2011 based on the isolation of a SAT2 foot-and-mouth disease virus.
(5)
The outbreaks occurred in the veterinary disease control zone 6, which forms part of one of the four
parts of the territory of Botswana from which imports of fresh de-boned and matured meat from
ungulates into the Union are authorised.
(6)
Due to the risk of introduction of foot-and-mouth disease through imports into the Union of fresh
meat from species susceptible to that disease, and considering the guarantees given by Botswana
allowing for regionalisation of the country, the authorisation of Botswana to export fresh de-boned
and matured meat from ungulates into the Union from the affected part of its territory should be
suspended as from 11 May 2011, the date of confirmation of the outbreaks of foot-and-mouth
disease.
(7) Annex
II
to
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
should
therefore
be
amended
accordingly.
(8)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
( 1 ) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
( 2 ) OJ L 73, 20.3.2010, p. 1.

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L 205/28
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
10.8.2011
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
In Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 the entry for Botswana is replaced by the following:
BW-0 Whole
country EQU,
EQW
BW-1 The
veterinary
disease
control
zones BOV, OVI, F
1 11
May 1 December
3c, 4b, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 18
RUF, RUW
2011
2007
BW-2 The
veterinary
disease
control
zones BOV, OVI, F
1 7
March
10, 11, 13 and 14
RUF, RUW
2002
‘BW – Botswana BW-3 The
veterinary
disease
control
zone BOV, OVI, F
1 20
October 20 January
12
RUF, RUW
2008
2009
BW-4 The
veterinary
disease
control
zone BOV
F
1 18
February
4a, except the intensive surveillance
2011’
buffer zone of 10 km along the
boundary with the foot-and-mouth
disease vaccination zone and
wildlife management areas
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, 9 August 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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