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Official Journal of the European Union
6.2.2013
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 4 February 2013
amending Decision 2009/719/EC authorising certain Member States to revise their annual BSE
monitoring programmes
(notified under document C(2013) 435)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2013/76/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) On
8
October
2012
the
European
Food
Safety
Authority
(EFSA) approved a scientific and technical assistance
report on the minimum sample size to test should an
annual BSE statistical testing regime be authorised in
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
healthy slaughtered cattle ( 4 ).
Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European
(5) EFSA concluded in its report that, according to the
Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down
estimates from a model developed to reply to the
rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain
Commission mandate (C-TSEMM model), no healthy
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ( 1 ), and in particular
slaughter animals need to be tested in order for the
the second subparagraph of Article 6(1b) thereof,
current surveillance system of at risk sub-populations
(fallen stock, casualty slaughter and clinical suspects) to
meet, in the EU-25 group considered as a whole, a
design prevalence of one detectable case in 100 000
Whereas:
adult cattle at a confidence level of 95 %, the inter
national standard established by the World Organisation
for Animal Health (OIE) regarding the performance of
BSE surveillance systems. Should no healthy slaughtered
animals have been tested in 2011, the surveillance
(1) Article
6(1b)
of
Regulation
(EC)
No
999/2001
provides
system would still have ensured a design prevalence of
that the annual monitoring programmes for the Member
one case per 5 355 627 in the adult population of the
States having demonstrated an improvement in their
EU-25 at a confidence level of 95 %.
epidemiological situation, according to certain criteria,
may be revised.
(2) The
Annex
to
Commission
Decision
2009/719/EC
of (6) Considering
the
decreasing
trend
of
BSE
in
the
European
28 September 2009 authorising certain Member States
Union, EFSA’s estimate that in the EU-25 the surveillance
to revise their annual BSE monitoring programmes ( 2 ) as
system based on the testing of at risk sub-populations
amended by Implementing Decision 2011/358/EU ( 3 )
only would easily meet the international standard
lists 25 Member States authorised to revise their annual
regarding the performance of BSE surveillance systems,
monitoring programme in accordance with Article 6(1b)
and the fact that no testing of healthy slaughtered
of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 (hereafter referred to as
animals is required to meet the international standard
the EU-25).
established by the OIE for the monitoring of BSE
provided that animals from the three at risk sub-popu
lations are tested, the testing of healthy slaughtered cattle
could be stopped in the EU-25. The provisions for the
surveillance system of healthy slaughtered cattle in the
(3) Regarding
the
monitoring
of
bovine
animals
subject
to
normal slaughter for human consumption, Article 2(1)(a)
EU-25 should therefore be amended accordingly.
of Decision 2009/719/EC provides that the EU-25 shall
test for BSE all bovine animals above 72 months of age,
whereas Article 2(3) provides that, from 1 January 2013,
the EU-25 may decide to test only a minimum annual
sample of the healthy slaughtered cattle over 72 months
of age.
(7) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Decision
are
in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
( 1 ) OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 256, 29.9.2009, p. 35.
( 3 ) OJ L 161, 21.6.2011, p. 29.
( 4 ) EFSA Journal 2012; 10(10):2913.

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6.2.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Article 1
Paragraph 3 of Article 2 of Decision 2009/719/EC is replaced
by the following:
Done at Brussels, 4 February 2013.
‘3. By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1,
For the Commission
from 1 January 2013 Member States listed in the Annex may
decide not to test animals in the subpopulation referred to in
Tonio BORG
that point.’
Member of the Commission

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