HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"EN
14.4.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
100/73
COMMISSION DECISION
of 13 April 2011
amending Decision 2007/843/EC as regards the control programme for Salmonella in certain poultry
and eggs in Tunisia
(notified under document C(2011) 2520)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2011/238/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(3)
Tunisia has now informed the Commission that that
programme has been stopped. Accordingly, that
programme submitted by Tunisia should no longer be
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
approved. Decision 2007/843/EC should therefore be
Union,
amended.
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the
(4) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
2003 on the control of Salmonella and other specified
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
food-borne zoonotic agents ( 1 ), and in particular Article 10(2)
thereof,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Whereas:
Article 1
Article 1 of Decision 2007/843/EC is replaced by the following:
(1) Regulation
(EC)
No
2160/2003
lays
down
rules
for
the
control of Salmonella in different poultry populations in
the Union. It provides that admission to or retention on
‘Article 1
the lists of third countries provided for in Union legis
The control programmes submitted by Canada, Israel and the
lation, for the relevant species or category, from which
United States in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation
Member States are authorised to import those animals or
(EC) No 2160/2003 are hereby approved as regards
hatching eggs covered by that Regulation is subject to the
Salmonella in flocks of breeding hens.’
submission to the Commission by the third country
concerned of a control programme for Salmonella with
equivalent guarantees to those contained in the national
Article 2
control programmes for Salmonella in the Member States.
This Decision shall apply from 1 May 2011.
(2) Commission
Decision
2007/843/EC
of
11
December
Article 3
2007 concerning approval of Salmonella control
programmes in breeding flocks of Gallus gallus in
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
certain third countries in accordance with Regulation
(EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of
the Council and amending Decision 2006/696/EC, as
Done at Brussels, 13 April 2011.
regards certain public health requirements at import of
poultry and hatching eggs ( 2 ) approved the control
For the Commission
programme submitted by Tunisia for Salmonella in
flocks of breeding hens, in accordance with Regulation
John DALLI
(EC) No 2160/2003.
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 332, 18.12.2007, p. 81.

---