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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-873/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/873",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 3 December 2014 repealing Decision 2002/249/EC concerning certain protective measures with regard to certain fishery and aquaculture products intended for human consumption and imported from Myanmar (notified under document C(2014) 9057) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/873/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-873",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision\nof 3 December 2014\nrepealing Decision 2002/249/EC concerning certain protective measures with regard to certain fishery and aquaculture products intended for human consumption and imported from Myanmar\n(notified under document C(2014) 9057)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\n(2014/873/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety, and in particular Article 53(1) thereof,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries, and in particular Article 22(1) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Decision 2002/249/EC introduces certain protective measures with regard to certain fishery and aquaculture products intended for human consumption and imported from Myanmar and specifies tests to be carried out by the Member States on shrimps.\n(2)\nDecision 2002/249/EC provides that that Decision is to be reviewed in the light of the guarantees offered by the competent authorities of Myanmar and on the basis of the results of the tests carried out by the Member States.\n(3)\nIt is not authorised to import aquaculture products from Myanmar into the EU.\n(4)\nAll uses of chloramphenicol and nitrofurans in fishery and aquaculture products are banned in Myanmar since 16 November 2011 by Burmese Directive 6/2011.\n(5)\nThe competent authorities in Myanmar have conducted monitoring tests on fishery products since the entry into force of the ban which were negative for the presence of chloramphenicol and nitrofurans.\n(6)\nNo test by Member States as referred to in Article 2 of Decision 2002/249/EC on shrimps imported from Myanmar has had a non-satisfactory result since June 2009. It is therefore no longer necessary to test each consignment, in particular, with a view to detecting the presence of chloramphenicol.\n(7)\nDecision 2002/249/EC should therefore be repealed accordingly.\n(8)\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 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2002/249/EC of 27 March 2002 concerning certain protective measures with regard to certain fishery and aquaculture products intended for human consumption and imported from Myanmar (OJ L 84, 28.3.2002, p. 73)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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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."
}