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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-761/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2006/761",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 9 November 2006 amending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards restricted zones in relation to bluetongue (notified under document number C(2006) 5311) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/761/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-761",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 9 November 2006\namending Decision 2005/393/EC as regards restricted zones in relation to bluetongue\n(notified under document number C(2006) 5311)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2006/761/EC)\nTHE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 2000/75/EC of 20 November 2000 laying down specific provisions for the control and eradication of bluetongue, and in particular Article 8(3) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 2000/75/EC lays down control rules and measures to combat bluetongue in the Community, including the establishment of protection and surveillance zones and a ban on animals leaving those zones.\n(2)\nCommission Decision 2005/393/EC of 23 May 2005 on protection and surveillance zones in relation to bluetongue and conditions applying to movements from or through these zones provides for the demarcation of the global geographic areas where protection and surveillance zones (‘the restricted zones’) are to be established by the Member States in relation to bluetongue.\n(3)\nFollowing the notification of outbreaks of bluetongue in mid-August and early September 2006 by Belgium, Germany, France and the Netherlands, the Commission has amended several times Decision 2005/393/EC as regards the demarcation of the restricted zone concerned.\n(4)\nOn 13 and 16 October 2006 respectively, France and Germany informed the Commission of new confirmed cases of bluetongue. In view of those findings, it is appropriate to amend the demarcation of the restricted zone in those countries.\n(5)\nDecision 2005/393/EC should be amended accordingly.\n(6)\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 327, 22.12.2000, p. 74."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 130, 24.5.2005, p. 22. Decision as last amended by Decision 2006/693/EC (OJ L 283, 14.10.2006, p. 52)."
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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