Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/566 of 14 February 2024 amending Annex VIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 as regards the approval or withdrawal of the disease-free status of certain zones of Germany and Spain as regards infection with bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) and the approval of the extension of an eradication programme for infection with that virus

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/566
• Articles: 3

Article 1

Annex VIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 is 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

Annex VIII to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/620 is amended as follows:

(1)

Part I is amended as follows:

(a)

the entry for Germany is replaced by the following:

Member State

Territory

‘Germany

Whole territory except Bundesland Bremen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen’

(b)

the entry for Spain is replaced by the following:

Member State

Territory

‘Spain

Comunidad Autónoma de Aragón

Comunidad Autónoma de Canarias

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla-La Mancha:

Province of Guadalajara

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

Province of Ávila

Province of Salamanca

Cantalejo, Carbonero El Mayor, Santa María la Real de Nieva, Segovia, Villacastín in the Province of Segovia

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

Comunidad Autónoma de Cataluña

Comunidad Autónoma de La Rioja

Comunidad Autónoma de las Islas Baleares

Comunidad Autónoma de Navarra

Comunidad Autónoma del País Vasco

Comunidad Autónoma de Valencia’

(2)

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

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

Comunidad Autónoma de Asturias

Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria

Comunidad Autónoma de Castilla y León:

Province of Ávila

Province of Salamanca

Province of Segovia, the following districts: Cantalejo, Carbonero El Mayor, Santa María la Real de Nieva, Segovia, Villacastín

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

Comunidad Autónoma de Extremadura

Comunidad Autónoma de Galicia

Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid

Comunidad Autónoma de Murcia

21 February 2022’