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THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,Having regard to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health (‘Animal Health Law’)note, and in particular Article 141(1) thereof,Whereas:
(1)Regulation (EU) 2016/429 empowers the Commission to adopt implementing acts laying down temporary rules, by way of addition or alternative to those laid down in Part IV, Title I, Chapter 3, of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, for movements of specific species or categories of kept terrestrial animals. Those temporary rules may be adopted where a listed disease referred to in Article 9(1), point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 appears to be spreading despite the movement requirements laid down in accordance with Part IV, Title I, Chapter 3, Sections 1 to 6, of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.
(2)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882note was adopted within the framework of Regulation (EU) 2016/429. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 lists equine infectious anaemia (EIA) in the Annex thereto, and categorises it as a listed disease referred to in Article 9(1), point (d), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.
(3)Commission Decision 2010/346/EUnote was adopted pursuant to Article 10(4) of Council Directive 90/425/EECnote, and it lays down protective measures with regard to EIA in Romania. Those protective measures are in addition to the animal health conditions governing movements of equidae in the Union that were laid down in Council Directive 2009/156/ECnote. Directive 90/425/EEC has now been repealed by Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Councilnote, and Directive 2009/156/EC has now been repealed by Regulation (EU) 2016/429.
(4)Decision 2010/346/EU was adopted in 2010, when EIA was considered endemic in Romania and the disease situation in that Member State presented an animal health risk for equidae in the Union.
(5)Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688note lays down, inter alia, animal health requirements for movements within the Union of equine animals. Article 22(1), point (c), of that Delegated Regulation lays down requirements in relation to EIA which must be fulfilled in order to dispatch equine animals to other Member States.
(6)At the February 2022 meeting of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed, Romania presented to the Commission and to the other Member States a situation report demonstrating that progress has been made in that Member State in eradicating EIA, and certain parts of its territory have remained free of the disease for more than 12 months or the prevalence of the disease has remained within limits observed regionally in other Member States. It shows that the national eradication programme for EIA implemented in the territory of Romania has proven to be effective.
(7)Therefore, the measures laid down in Decision 2010/346/EU have become obsolete, and the animal health requirements laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 are now sufficient to ensure the safe movement of equine animals between Member States.
(8)Decision 2010/346/EU should therefore be repealed.
(9)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:
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Decision 2010/346/EU is repealed.
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