Article 1
Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1471/2004 of 18 August 2004 amending Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the import of cervid products from Canada and the United States(Text with EEA relevance)
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1471/2004 of 18 August 2004 amending Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the import of cervid products from Canada and the United States(Text with EEA relevance)
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Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union . It shall apply from 1 January 2005.
Supplementary provisions
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
ANNEX In part D of Annex XI, the following point 4 is added: β4. (a) When the farmed game meat defined by Council Directive 91/495/EEC Β ( 1 ) , meat preparations defined by Council Directive 94/65/EC Β ( 2 ) , and meat products defined by Council Directive 77/99/EEC Β ( 3 ) , derived from farmed cervid animals, are imported into the Community from Canada or the United States of America, the health certificates shall be accompanied by a declaration signed by the competent authority of the country of production, worded as follows: βThis product contains or is derived exclusively from meat, excluding offal and spinal cord, of cervid animals which have been examined for chronic wasting disease by histopathology, immunohistochemistry or other diagnostic method recognised by the competent authority with negative results and is not derived from animals coming from a herd where chronic wasting disease has been confirmed or is officially suspected.β (b) When game meat as defined by Council Directive 92/45/EEC Β ( 4 ) , meat preparations defined by Council Directive 94/65/EC, and meat products defined by Council Directive 77/99/EEC, derived from wild cervid animals, is imported into the Community from Canada or the United States of America, the health certificate shall be accompanied by a declaration signed by the competent authority of the country of production, worded as follows: βThis product contains or is derived exclusively from meat, excluding offal and spinal cord, of cervid animals which have been examined for chronic wasting disease by histopathology, immunohistochemistry or other diagnostic method recognised by the competent authority with negative results and is not derived from animals coming from a region where chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in the last three years or is officially suspected.β β ( 1 ) Β Β OJ L 268 24.9.1991, p. 41 . ( 2 ) Β Β OJ L 368, 31.12.1994, p. 10 . ( 3 ) Β Β OJ L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 85 . ( 4 ) Β Β OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 35 .β
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