(1)Council Decision 97/132/EC approves the Agreement between the European Community [now the European Union] and New Zealand on sanitary measures applicable to trade in live animals and animal products (the Agreement), and it provides for the adoption of guarantees for the importation of fresh meat and meat-based products from New Zealand equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 72/462/EECnote. Directive 72/462/EEC was repealed by Council Directive 2004/68/ECnote. The public health and official control rules which apply to meat and meat products by virtue of Directive 72/462/EEC have been replaced by those of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council which in turn was repealed and replaced by Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The other rules of Directive 72/462/EEC have been replaced by Council Directive 2002/99/ECnote and by Directive 2004/68/EC, which were subsequently repealed and replaced by Regulation (EU) 2016/429.
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