Decision 1998/692 - 98/692/EC: Commission Decision of 25 November 1998 amending Decision 98/256/EC as regards certain emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (notified under document number C(1998) 3773) - Main contents

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98/692/EC: Commission Decision of 25 November 1998 amending Decision 98/256/EC as regards certain emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (notified under document number C(1998) 3773) (Text with EEA relevance)

Official Journal L 328 , 04/12/1998 P. 0028 - 0035

COMMISSION DECISION of 25 November 1998 amending Decision 98/256/EC as regards certain emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy (notified under document number C(1998) 3773) (Text with EEA relevance) (98/692/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), as last amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (2), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof,

• (1) 

  Whereas Council Decision 98/256/EC of 16 March 1998 concerning emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, amending Decision 94/474/EC and repealing Decision 96/239/EC (3), as amended by Commission Decision 98/564/EC (4), provided for a step-by-step approach to the lifting of the ban on the dispatch to other Member States and third countries of products from bovine animals slaughtered in the United Kingdom; whereas the first step was the lifting of the prohibitions on the dispatch of products from bovine animals slaughtered, cut, processed and stored in establishments exclusively used for products destined for dispatch to other Member States and third countries, and located in Northern Ireland; whereas subsequent steps will include the lifting of the prohibition on the processing of eligible meat from Northern Ireland in Great Britain, under conditions which will be laid down at a later stage; whereas the Commission will immediately start investigating, with the authorities of the United Kingdom, by what means and under what conditions those restrictions may be further relaxed;

• (2) 

  Whereas the date on which the dispatch of products under the Export Certified Herds Scheme (ECHS) could commence was set at 1 June 1998 by Commission Decision 98/351/EC (5);

• (3) 

  Whereas the United Kingdom put forward a first proposal for a Date-Based Export Scheme (DBES) with a view to permitting, subject to certain conditions, the dispatch of products from animals born after a certain date to the Commission on 2 October 1997; whereas the Scientific Steering Committee concluded at its meetings of 8 and 9 December 1997 and 22 and 23 January 1998 that that proposal was not adequate; whereas the United Kingdom put forward a modified proposal dated 27 January 1998; whereas the Scientific Steering Committee issued an opinion on that revised proposal on 20 February 1998 stating that the revised proposal responded to the suggestions and questions formulated by the Scientific Steering Committee;

• (4) 

  Whereas the feeding of ruminant protein to ruminants has been illegal in the United Kingdom since January 1989; whereas a total ban on the feeding of mammalian meat-and-bone meal was introduced in 1994; whereas the feeding of any mammalian meat-and-bone meal to all farmed livestock was banned on 4 April 1996; whereas by 1 August 1996 all feed containing mammalian meat-and-bone meal in the United Kingdom had been recalled and premises in which it had been stored were required to be cleansed and disinfected; whereas from that date it became a legal offence to sell or supply any mammalian meat-and-bone meal for incorporation into livestock feed or to feed livestock any feed containing mammalian meat-and-bone meal or to possess mammalian meat-and-bone meal wherever farm feed was stored or prepared; whereas the monitoring programme, in existence since 1 February 1996, to check that no mammalian meat-and-bone meal was being...

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