Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2618 of 23 November 2023 amending certain Annexes to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 as regards the approval or withdrawal of the disease-free status of certain Member States or zones thereof as regards certain listed diseases and the approval of eradication programmes for certain listed diseases

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2618
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Annexes VI and VIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

Annexes VI and VIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 are amended as follows:

(1)

in Annex VI, in Part I, the following entry for Portugal is inserted between the entry for Poland and the entry for Slovenia:

Member State

Territory

‘Portugal

Região Autónoma dos Açores’

(2)

Annex VIII is amended as follows:

(a)

Part I is amended as follows:

(i)

the entry for Belgium is deleted;

(ii)

the entry for Germany is replaced by the following:

Member State

Territory

‘Germany

Whole territory except Bundesland Nordrhein-Westfalen’

(iii)

the entry for the Netherlands is deleted;

(iv)

the entry for Spain is replaced by the following:

Member State

Territory

‘Spain

Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía: Province of Almería

Province of Granada, the following districts: Alhama de Granada (Alhama/Temple), Baza (Altiplanicie Sur), Guadix (Hoya-Altiplanicie de Guadix), Huescar (Altiplanicie Norte), Iznalloz (Montes Orientales), Loja (Vega/Montes Occ.), Orgiva (Alpujarra/Valle de Lecrin), Santa Fe (Vega de Granada)

Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón

Comunidad Autónoma de Asturias

Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha:

Province of Guadalajara

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León, except the following areas:

Province of Salamanca

Ávila, Arenas de San Pedro, Candeleda, Cebreros, El Barco de Ávila, El Barraco, Navaluenga, Navarredonda de Gredos, Piedrahíta, San Pedro del Arroyo, Sotillo de la Adrada in the Province of Ávila

Alcañices, Bermillo de Sayago, Puebla de Sanabria in the Province of Zamora

Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña

Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia except the following areas:

Province of Orense

Province of Pontevedra

Sarria, Chantada and Terra de Lemos-Quiroga in the Province of Lugo

Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja

Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, except the following districts:

Navalcarnero, San Martín de Valdeiglesias

Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia

Comunidad Autónoma de Navarra

Comunidad Autónoma de País Vasco

Comunidad Autónoma de Valencia’

(b)

Part II is replaced by the following:

‘PART II

Member States or zones thereof with an approved eradication programme for infection with BTV

Member State

Territory

Date of initial approval as referred to in Article 15(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689

Spain

Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía:

Provinces of Cádiz, Córdoba, Huelva, Jáén, Málaga, Sevilla

Province of Granada: Motril (Costa de Granada)

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha, except the Province of Guadalajara

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León:

Province of Salamanca

Province of Ávila, the following districts: Ávila, Arenas de San Pedro, Candeleda, Cebreros, El Barco de Ávila, El Barraco, Navaluenga, Navarredonda de Gredos, Piedrahíta, San Pedro del Arroyo, Sotillo de la Adrada

Province of Zamora, the following districts: Alcañices, Bermillo de Sayago, Puebla de Sanabria

Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura

Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia:

Province of Orense

Province of Pontevedra

Sarria, Chantada and Terra de Lemos-Quiroga in the Province of Lugo

Comunidad Autónoma de Islas Baleares

Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid, the following districts:

Navalcarnero, San Martín de Valdeiglesias

21 February 2022’