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28.8.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
231/13
DECISIONS
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 24 August 2012
amending Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia,
Croatia and Nicaragua
(notified under document C(2012) 5860)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2012/489/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) In
May
2012,
the
OIE
adopted
Resolution
No
16
—
Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Risk Status of Member Countries. That Resolution
Union,
recognised Austria, Belgium, Brazil and Colombia as
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European
having a negligible BSE risk, and Croatia and Nicaragua
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
as having a controlled BSE risk. The list in the Annex to
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain
Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended to
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( 1 ), and in particular
be brought into line with that Resolution as regards
the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) thereof,
those Member States and third countries.
Whereas:
(5) Decision
2007/453/EC
should
therefore
be
amended
accordingly.
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
999/2001
lays
down
rules
for
the
prevention, control and eradication of transmissible
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in animals. For that
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
purpose, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
status of Member States or third countries or regions
thereof (‘countries or regions’) is to be determined by
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
classification into one of three categories depending on
the BSE risk involved, namely a negligible BSE risk, a
Article 1
controlled BSE risk and an undetermined BSE risk.
The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC is replaced by the text in
(2) The
Annex
to
Commission
Decision
2007/453/EC
of the Annex to this Decision.
29 June 2007 establishing the BSE status of Member
States or third countries or regions thereof according
Article 2
to their BSE risk ( 2 ) lists countries or regions according
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
to their BSE risk status.
(3) The
World
Organisation
for
Animal
Health
(OIE)
plays
a
leading role in the categorisation of countries or regions
Done at Brussels, 24 August 2012.
according to their BSE risk. The list in the Annex to
Decision 2007/453/EC takes account of Resolution No
17 — Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encepha
For the Commission
lopathy Risk Status of Members — adopted by the OIE
in May 2011 regarding the BSE status of Member States
John DALLI
and third countries.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 172, 30.6.2007, p. 84.

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ANNEX
‘ANNEX
LIST OF COUNTRIES OR REGIONS
A. Countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk
Member States
— Belgium
— Denmark
— Austria
— Finland
— Sweden
EFTA countries
— Iceland
— Norway
Third countries
— Argentina
— Australia
— Brazil
— Chile
— Colombia
— India
— New Zealand
— Panama
— Paraguay
— Peru
— Singapore
— Uruguay
B. Countries or regions with a controlled BSE risk
Member States
— Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Luxembourg, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom
EFTA countries
— Liechtenstein
— Switzerland

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Third countries
— Canada
— Croatia
— Japan
— Mexico
— Nicaragua
— South Korea
— Taiwan
— United States
C. Countries or regions with an undetermined BSE risk
— Countries or regions not listed in point A or B of this Annex.’

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