1999/879/EC: Council Decision of 17 December 1999 concerning the placing on the market and administration of bovine somatotrophin (BST) and repealing Decision 90/218/EEC

• CELEX: Decision 90/218/EEC
• Articles: 6

Article 1

From the time this Decision takes effect, Member States shall ensure that the placing on the market of bovine somatotrophin on Community territory or within their jurisdiction for the purpose of its marketing and administration thereof to dairy cows by any means whatsoever shall be prohibited.

Article 2

Undertakings buying or producing bovine somatotrophin substances and undertakings authorized in any capacity to market such substances shall be required to keep registers detailing, in chronological order, quantities produced or acquired and those sold or used for purposes other than placing on the market provided for in Article 1 and the names of the persons to whom such quantities were sold or from whom they were purchased. The above information must be made available to the competent authority at its request and, in the case of computerized records, in the form of a printout.

Article 3

The prohibition provided for in Article 1 shall not affect the production of bovine somatotrophin in the Member States, or imports, for the purposes of its export to third countries.

Article 4

Decision 90/218/EEC shall be repealed.

Article 5

This Decision shall take effect as from 1 January 2000.

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 17 December 1999.

For the Council

The President

K. HEMILÄ

(1) Opinion delivered on 16 December 1999 (not yet published in the Official Journal).

(2) Opinion delivered on 9 December 1999 (not yet published in the Official Journal).

(3) OJ L 116, 8.5.1990, p. 27. Decision as last amended by Decision 94/936/EC (OJ L 366, 31.12.1994, p. 19).

(4) OJ L 323, 17.11.1978, p. 12.

(5) OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23.