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23.12.2011 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
343/25
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1380/2011
of 21 December 2011
amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the specific conditions for breeding and
productive ratites
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) Experience
in
the
application
of
that
provision
concerning poultry shows that it is appropriate to
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
extend it also to day-old chicks of ratites.
Union,
(5) Regulation
(EC)
No
798/2008
should
therefore
be
Having regard to Council Directive 2009/158/EC of
amended accordingly.
30 November 2009 on animal health conditions governing
intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries
(6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
of, poultry and hatching eggs
(
accordance with the opinion of the Standing

1 ), and in particular
Article 25(1)(b) thereof,
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Whereas:
Article 1
(1) Annex
VIII
to
Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of
In Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, in Part II, point
third countries, territories, zones or compartments from
3 is replaced by the following:
which poultry and poultry products may be imported
‘3. Ratites which have hatched from imported hatching eggs
into and transit through the Community and the
shall be kept for a period of at least three weeks from the
veterinary certification requirements ( 2 ) sets out the
date of hatching in the hatchery or for at least three
specific conditions which apply to imports of breeding
weeks on the establishment(s) to which they have been
and productive poultry other than ratites and to imports
sent after hatching.
of hatching eggs and day-old chicks other than ratites.
Where day-old chicks of ratites are not reared in the
(2)
Point 2 of Part II of that Annex provides that, where day-
Member State which imported the hatching eggs, they
old chicks are not reared in the Member State which
shall be transported directly to the final destination
imported the hatching eggs, they are to be transported
(as specified in points I.10 and I.11 of the health
directly to the final destination and kept there for at least
certificate, Model 2, in Annex IV to Council Directive
three weeks from the date of hatching. That requirement
2009/158/EC (*)) and kept there for at least three
is reflected in Part I of the relevant model veterinary
weeks from the date of hatching.
certificate for day-old chicks laid down in Annex IV to
Directive 2009/158/EC.
___________
(*) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 74.’
(3) Annex
IX
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
798/2008
sets
out
the
specific conditions which apply to imports of ratites for
breeding and production, hatching eggs and day-old
Article 2
chicks thereof. Those specific conditions do not
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following
currently include a similar provision concerning ratites
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
as the one included for poultry in point 2 of Part II of
Annex VIII to that Regulation.
It shall apply from 1 February 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 21 December 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 74.
( 2 ) OJ L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1.

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