Annexes to COM(2000)438-4 - Animal-health rules governing the production, placing on the market and importation of products of animal origin intended for human consumption

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dossier COM(2000)438-4 - Animal-health rules governing the production, placing on the market and importation of products of animal origin intended ...
document COM(2000)438 EN
date December 16, 2002
ANNEX I


Diseases of relevance to trade in products of animal origin and for which control measures have been introduced under Community legislation

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ANNEX II


Special identification mark for meat from a territory or a part of a territory

1. The health mark for fresh meat must bear a diagonal cross consisting of two straight lines intersecting at the centre of the stamp and enabling the information thereon to remain legible.

2. The mark mentioned in paragraph 1 may also be applied using a single oval stamp, 6,5 cm wide by 4,5 cm high; the following information must appear on the mark in perfectly legible characters:

- on the upper part, the name or ISO code of the Member State in capitals: AT, BE, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, GR, IE, IT, LU, NL, PT, SE and UK,

- in the centre, the veterinary approval number of the slaughterhouse,

- on the lower part, one of the following sets of initials CE, EC, EF, EG, EK or EY,

- two straight lines crossing at the centre of the stamp in such a way that the information is not obscured.

The letters must be at least 0,8 cm high and the figures at least 1 cm high.

The stamp must also carry information whereby the veterinarian who inspected the meat can be identified.

The mark must be applied under the direct supervision of the official veterinarian controlling the implementation of the animal health requirements.


ANNEX III


1. Treatments to eliminate certain animal health risks linked to meat and milk

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+: Effectiveness recognised.

0: Effectiveness not recognised.


ANNEX IV


General principles of certification

1. The representative of the competent authority of dispatch issuing a certificate to accompany a consignment of products of animal origin must sign the certificate and ensure that it bears an official stamp. This requirement applies to each sheet of the certificate if it consists of more than one.

2. Certificates must be drawn up in the official language or languages of the Member State of destination and those of the Member State in which the border inspection takes place, or be accompanied by a certified translation into that language or those languages. However, a Member State may consent to the use of an official Community language other than its own.

3. The original version of the certificate must accompany consignments on entry into the Community.

4. Certificates must consist of:

(a) a single sheet of paper; or

(b) two or more pages that are part of a single and indivisible sheet of paper; or

(c) a sequence of pages numbered so as to indicate that it is a particular page in a finite sequence (for example, "page 2 of 4 pages").

5. Certificates must bear a unique identifying number. Where the certificate consists of a sequence of pages, each page must indicate this number.

6. The certificate must be issued before the consignment to which it relates leaves the control of the competent authority of the country of dispatch.


ANNEX V


1. Council Directive 72/461/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat(1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.

2. Council Directive 80/215/EEC of 22 January 1980 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products(2), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.

3. Council Directive 91/494/EEC of 26 June 1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and imports from third countries of fresh poultrymeat(3), as last amended by Directive 93/121/EC.

4. Council Directive 91/495/EEC of 27 November 1990 concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat(4), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden.

5. Council Directive 92/45/EEC of 16 June 1992 on public health and animal health problems relating to the killing of wild game and the placing on the market of wild-game meat(5), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC.

6. Council Directive 92/46/EEC of 16 June 1992 laying down the health rules for the production and placing on the market of raw milk, heat-treated milk and milk-based products(6).

7. Council Directive 94/65/EC of 14 December 1994 laying down the requirements for the production and placing on the market of minced meat and meat preparations(7).


(1) OJ L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 24.

(2) OJ L 47, 21.2.1980, p. 4.

(3) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 35.

(4) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 41.

(5) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 35.

(6) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 1.

(7) OJ L 368, 31.12.1994, p. 10.