13The German Government lays particular emphasis on the clanger of the presence of trichinae in products prepared from pigs' offal and on the lack of harmonization of health control procedures in this sector, since Council Directive No 77/96 of 21 December 1976 on the examination for trichinae upon importation from third countries of fresh meat derived from domestic swine (Official Journal 1977, L 26, p. 67) requires the Member States to introduce the measures for which it provides only with effect from 1 January 1979, that is to say, from a date later than that of the reasoned opinion addressed by the Commission to the Federal Republic of Germany on 4 January 1978.
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