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26.6.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
165/25
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 546/2012
of 25 June 2012
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,
brucellosis-free status for the purposes of exports to the
Union of live animals certified according to that model
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
certificate.
Union,
(4) Council
Directive
91/68/EEC
of
28
January
1991
on
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December
animal health conditions governing intra-Community
2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the
trade in ovine and caprine animals ( 4 ) lays down, inter
production, processing, distribution and introduction of
alia, the conditions under which Member States or
products of animal origin for human consumption ( 1 ), and in
regions thereof may be recognised as being officially
particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first
brucellosis-free.
subparagraph of Article 8(1) and Article 8(4) thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 2004/68/EC of 26 April
(5)
In addition, Directive 2004/68/EC provides that, where
2004 laying down animal health rules for the importation
the equivalence of the official health guarantees provided
into and transit through the Community of certain live
for by a third country can be formally recognised by the
ungulate animals, amending Directives 90/426/EEC and
Union, the specific animal health conditions for the
92/65/EEC and repealing Directive 72/462/EEC (
introduction of live ungulates from that third country

2 ), and in
particular Article 3(1) and Article 7(e) thereof,
into the Union may be based on those guarantees.
Whereas:
(6) Canada
has
submitted
to
the
Commission
documentation
demonstrating compliance with the conditions laid down
(1) Commission
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
(
in Directive 91/68/EEC to be recognised as officially free

3 ) lays down
the veterinary certification requirements for the intro
from brucellosis (B. melitensis) for the entire territory of
duction into the Union of certain consignments of live
that third country for the purposes of exports to the
animals or fresh meat. It also lays down the lists of third
Union of domestic ovine animals (Ovis aries) and
countries, territories or parts thereof from which those
domestic caprine animals (Capra hircus) intended for
consignments may be introduced into the Union.
breeding and/or production after importation and accom
panied by a veterinary certificate in accordance with
model certificate OVI-X set out in Part 2 of Annex I to
(2) Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 provides that
consignments of ungulates are to be introduced into
Regulation (EU) No 206/2010.
the Union only if they come from the third countries,
territories or parts thereof listed in Part 1 of Annex I
(7)
Following the evaluation of the documentation submitted
thereto for which there is a model veterinary certificate
by Canada, that third country should be recognised as
corresponding to the consignment concerned listed in
being officially free from brucellosis (B. melitensis). The
that Part. In addition, those consignments are to be
appropriate reference should therefore be included in the
accompanied by the appropriate veterinary certificate,
entry for that third country in column 6 of the table in
drawn up in accordance with the relevant model set
Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010.
out in Part 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No
206/2010, taking into account the specific conditions
(8) In
addition,
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
provides
that
indicated in column 6 of the table in Part 1 of that
consignments of fresh meat intended for human
Annex.
consumption are to be imported into the Union only if
they come from the third countries, territories or parts
(3) The
whole
territory
of
Canada,
except
the
Okanagan
thereof listed in Part 1 of Annex II to that Regulation for
Valley region of British Columbia, is currently listed in
which there is a model veterinary certificate
Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 as
corresponding to the consignment concerned listed in
approved for the export to the Union, inter alia, of
that Part.
domestic ovine animals (Ovis aries) and domestic
caprine animals (Capra hircus) intended for breeding
and/or production after importation and accompanied
(9)
Four parts of the territory of Botswana are listed in Part 1
by a veterinary certificate in accordance with model
of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 as regions
OVI-X. However, Canada is not listed in column 6 of
from which imports of fresh de-boned and matured meat
the table in Part 1 of that Annex as having an official
from ungulates into the Union are authorised. Those
regions consist of a number of veterinary disease
control zones.
( 1 ) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
( 2 ) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 321.
( 3 ) OJ L 73, 20.3.2010, p. 1.
( 4 ) OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 19.

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(10) Following
an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in
zone were slaughtered. That area should not be auth
region BW-1 of Botswana, Regulation (EU) No
orised for exports to the Union of fresh de-boned and
206/2010, as amended by Commission Implementing
matured meat from ungulates. It should therefore be
Regulation (EU) No 801/2011 ( 1 ), provides that the auth
excluded from the region BW-1 as listed in part 1 of
orisation of Botswana to export fresh de-boned and
Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010.
matured meat from ungulates into the Union from that
region is suspended as from 11 May 2011. The region
BW-1 of Botswana is composed of veterinary disease
(13) Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 should therefore be
control zones 3c, 4b, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 18.
amended accordingly.
(11) On 2 December 2011, Botswana notified the
(14) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
Commission of the successful approval of veterinary
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
disease control zones 3c, 4b, 5, 6, 8, 9 and 18 as free
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
from foot-and-mouth disease by the World Organisation
for Animal Health. The suspension of the authorisation
to export fresh de-boned and matured meat from
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
ungulates into the Union from that region is therefore
no longer necessary.
Article 1
Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 is amended as follows:
(12) However, within veterinary disease control zone 6,
Botswana has declared an area close to the border with
Zimbabwe as a intensive surveillance zone and informed
(1) in Part 1 of Annex I, the entry for Canada is replaced by the
the Commission that all domestic bovine animals in that
following:
CA-0 Whole
country POR-X
Whole country, except the Okanagan Valley
region of British Columbia described as
follows:
— From a point on the Canada/United States
border 120°15′ longitude, 49° latitude
‘CA — Canada
IVb IX V’
CA-1 — Northerly to a point 119°35′ longitude, BOV-X, OVI-X,
50°30′ latitude
OVI-Y RUM (*)
A
— North-easterly to a point 119° longitude,
50°45′ latitude
— Southerly to a point on the Canada/
United States border 118°15′ longitude,
49° latitude
(2) in Part 1 of Annex II, the entry for Botswana is replaced by the following:
BW-0
Whole country
EQU,
EQW
The veterinary disease control
zones 3c, 4b, 5, 6, 8, 9 and
18, except the intensive BOV,
BW-1
surveillance zone in zone 6
OVI,
F
1
11 May
26 June
between the border with RUF,
2011
2012
Zimbabwe and the highway RUW
‘BW — Botswana
A1
The veterinary disease control
BOV,
BW-2
zones 10, 11, 13 and 14
OVI,
RUF,
F
1
7 March
2002
RUW
The veterinary disease control
BOV,
BW-3
zone 12
OVI,
20 January
RUF,
F
1
20 October
2008
2009
RUW
( 1 ) OJ L 205, 10.8.2011, p. 27.

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26.6.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
165/27
The veterinary disease control
zone 4a, except the intensive
surveillance buffer zone of
BW-4
10 km along the boundary
BOV
F
1
18 February
with the foot-and-mouth
2011’
disease vaccination zone and
wildlife management areas
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of 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, 25 June 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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