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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-569/annex",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/569",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/569 of 7 April 2015 amending the Annexes to Implementing Decision 2011/630/EU as regards the equivalence between officially tuberculosis-free bovine herds in Member States and in New Zealand and the information in the model animal health certificate on the quantity of semen (notified under document C(2015) 2187) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-569",
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  "text": "The Annexes to Implementing Decision 2011/630/EU are amended as follows:\n(1) Annex I is replaced by the following:\n‘ANNEX I\nList of third countries or parts thereof from which Member States are to authorise imports of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species\nThe model certificate to be used for imports from Canada is set out in Commission Decision 2005/290/EC of 4 April 2005 on simplified certificates for the importation of bovine semen and fresh pig meat from Canada and amending Decision 2004/639/EC (only for the semen collected in Canada) laid down in accordance with the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Canada on sanitary measures to protect public and animal health in respect of trade in live animals and animal products, as approved by Council Decision 1999/201/EC.\nThe model certificates to be used for imports from Switzerland are set out in Annex D to Council Directive 88/407/EEC, with the adaptations set out in point 4 of Chapter VII(B) of Appendix 2 of Annex 11 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products as approved by Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council, and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of 4 April 2002 on the conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confederation.\nFor the purposes of imports into the Union of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species, the bovine tuberculosis status of a bovine herd classified as “C2”, under the National Pest Management Strategy for bovine tuberculosis of New Zealand, is equivalent to the bovine tuberculosis status of a bovine herd that is recognised in a Member State as being an “officially tuberculosis-free bovine herd” in accordance with the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Annex A.I to Directive 64/432/EEC.’\nISO Code\nName of the third country\nRemarks\nDescription of the territory(if appropriate)\nAdditional guarantees\nAU\nAustralia\nThe additional guarantees concerning testing set out in points II.5.4.1 and/or II.5.4.2 of the model animal health certificate in Section A of Part 1 of Annex II are compulsory.\nCA\nCanada\nTerritory described as CA-1 in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010.\nCH\nSwitzerland\nCL\nChile\nGL\nGreenland\nIS\nIceland\nNZ\nNew Zealand\nPM\nSaint Pierre and Miquelon\nUS\nUnited States\nThe additional guarantees concerning testing set out in points II.5.4.1 and/or II.5.4.2 of the model animal health certificate in Section A of Part 1 of Annex II are compulsory.\n(2) In Part 1 of Annex II, Section A is replaced by the following:\n‘SECTION A\nModel 1 — Animal health certificate applicable to imports into and transits through the Union of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species collected, processed and stored in accordance with Council Directive 88/407/EEC, dispatched from a semen collection centre where the semen was collected. ’",
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  "version": "current",
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The model certificate to be used for imports from Canada is set out in Commission Decision 2005/290/EC of 4 April 2005 on simplified certificates for the importation of bovine semen and fresh pig meat from Canada and amending Decision 2004/639/EC (only for the semen collected in Canada) laid down in accordance with the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Canada on sanitary measures to protect public and animal health in respect of trade in live animals and animal products, as approved by Council Decision 1999/201/EC."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The model certificates to be used for imports from Switzerland are set out in Annex D to Council Directive 88/407/EEC, with the adaptations set out in point 4 of Chapter VII(B) of Appendix 2 of Annex 11 to the Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products as approved by Decision 2002/309/EC, Euratom of the Council, and of the Commission as regards the Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of 4 April 2002 on the conclusion of seven Agreements with the Swiss Confederation."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the purposes of imports into the Union of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species, the bovine tuberculosis status of a bovine herd classified as “C2”, under the National Pest Management Strategy for bovine tuberculosis of New Zealand, is equivalent to the bovine tuberculosis status of a bovine herd that is recognised in a Member State as being an “officially tuberculosis-free bovine herd” in accordance with the conditions laid down in paragraphs 1 and 2 of Annex A.I to Directive 64/432/EEC.’"
    }
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