{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-644/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2003/644",
  "legislation_title": "2003/644/EC: Commission Decision of 8 September 2003 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2003) 3190)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2003-644",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 8 September 2003\nestablishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry\n(notified under document number C(2003) 3190)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2003/644/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/2003, and in particular Article 9a(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Decision 95/160/EC of 21 April 1995 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of breeding poultry and day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry, has been substantially amended. In the interests of clarity and rationality the said Decision should be codified.\n(2)\nThe Commission has approved the operational programmes submitted by Finland and Sweden regarding salmonella controls. Those programmes include specific measures for breeding poultry and for day-old chicks for introduction into flocks of breeding poultry or flocks of productive poultry.\n(3)\nGuarantees should be established equivalent to those implemented by Finland and Sweden under their operational programmes.\n(4)\nThe detailed guarantees are to be based in particular on a microbiological examination of the poultry to be sent to Finland and Sweden.\n(5)\nIn this context different rules should be laid down for breeding poultry and day-old chicks.\n(6)\nRules should be established for this microbiological examination of samples by laying down the sampling method, the number of samples to be taken and the microbiological methods for examining the samples.\n(7)\nThose guarantees should not be applicable to any flock that is subject to a programme recognised as equivalent to that implemented by Finland and Sweden.\n(8)\nWith regard to consignments originating from third countries, Finland and Sweden should apply import requirements at least as stringent as those laid down in this Decision.\n(9)\nThe methods described in this Decision take into account the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority.\n(10)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 303, 31.10.1990, p. 6."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 105, 9.5.1995, p. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See Annex IV."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2003/644/introduction",
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}