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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathiesnote, and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) thereof,Whereas:
(1)Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 provides that Member States, third countries or regions thereof (‘countries or regions’) are to be classified according to their bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status into one of three categories: negligible BSE risk, controlled BSE risk and undetermined BSE risk.
(2)The Annex to Commission Decision 2007/453/ECnote lists countries or regions according to their BSE status.
(3)The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) plays a leading role in the categorisation of countries or regions according to their BSE risk. The list in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC takes account of Resolution No 18 — Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Member Countries — adopted by the OIE in May 2014note.
(4)In May 2015, the OIE adopted Resolution No 21 — Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Member Countriesnote. In addition to the Member States and European Free Trade Association countries already listed in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC, that Resolution recognised Cyprus, the Czech Republic, France, Liechtenstein and Switzerland as having a negligible BSE risk.
(5)The list of countries in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended to be brought in line with the Resolution No 21 adopted by the OIE in May 2015.
(6)Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7)The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1#
The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
List of countries or regions
A. Countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk
Member States
—Belgium
—Latvia
—Luxembourg
—Hungary
—Malta
—Netherlands
—Austria
—Portugal
—Slovenia
—Slovakia
—Finland
—Bulgaria
—Sweden
—Czech Republic
—Denmark
—Estonia
—France
—Croatia
—Italy
—Cyprus
European Free Trade Association countries
—Iceland
—Liechtenstein
—Norway
—Switzerland
Third countries
—Argentina
—Panama
—Paraguay
—Peru
—Singapore
—United States
—Uruguay
—Australia
—Brazil
—Chile
—Colombia
—India
—Israel
—Japan
—New Zealand
B. Countries or regions with a controlled BSE risk
Member States
—Germany
—Ireland
—Greece
—Spain
—Lithuania
—Poland
—Romania
—United Kingdom
Third countries
—Canada
—Costa Rica
—Mexico
—Nicaragua
—South Korea
—Taiwan
C. Countries or regions with an undetermined BSE risk
—Countries or regions not listed in point A or B.’
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