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  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 10 February 2012 amending Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of Denmark and Panama (notified under document C(2012) 678) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/111/EU)",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 10 February 2012\namending Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of Denmark and Panama\n(notified under document C(2012) 678)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2012/111/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 5(2) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nRegulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in animals. For that purpose, the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof (‘countries or regions’) is according to Article 5(1) and Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 to be determined by classification into one of three categories depending on the BSE risk involved, namely a negligible BSE risk, a controlled BSE risk and an undetermined BSE risk.\n(2)\nThe Annex to Commission Decision 2007/453/EC of 29 June 2007 establishing the BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk lists countries or regions according to their BSE risk status.\n(3)\nThe World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) plays a leading role in the categorisation of countries or regions according to their BSE risk and employs criteria equivalent to those established in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001. The list in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC takes account of Resolution No 18 – Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Members – adopted by the OIE in May 2010 regarding the BSE status of Member States and third countries.\n(4)\nIn May 2011, the OIE adopted Resolution No 17 – Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Members. That Resolution recognised Denmark and Panama as having a negligible BSE risk. The list in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended to be brought into line with that Resolution as regards those countries.\n(5)\nDecision 2007/453/EC should therefore 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:",
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  "status": null,
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 172, 30.6.2007, p. 84."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See pp. 40 and 158 of Report of the General Session 23-28 May 2010 at http://www.oie.int/eng/session2011/A_FR_2010PUB.pdf"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "See pp. 49 and 149 of Report of the General Session 22-27 May 2011 at http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/About_us/docs/pdf/A_FR_2011_PUB.pdf"
    }
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