{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-903/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-903/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/903",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/903 of 23 May 2017 amending Decision 2011/163/EU on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC (notified under document C(2017) 3324) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-903",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/903\nof 23 May 2017\namending Decision 2011/163/EU on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC\n(notified under document C(2017) 3324)\n(Text with EEA relevance)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996 on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC, and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 29(1) thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 96/23/EC lays down measures to monitor the substances and groups of residues listed in Annex I thereto. Article 29 of that Directive requires that third countries from which Member States are authorised to import animals and animal products covered by that Directive submit a residue monitoring plan providing required guarantees (‘the plan’). The plan should at least apply to the groups of residues and substances listed in that Annex I.\n(2)\nCommission Decision 2011/163/EU approves plans submitted by certain third countries concerning specified animal and animal products as listed in the Annex to that Decision (‘the list’).\n(3)\nColombia has submitted a plan for milk to the Commission. That plan provides sufficient guarantees and should be approved. An entry for Colombia for milk should therefore be included in the list.\n(4)\nMontenegro has submitted a plan for milk to the Commission. That plan provides sufficient guarantees and should be approved. An entry for Montenegro for milk should therefore be included in the list.\n(5)\nUkraine has submitted a plan for rabbit to the Commission. That plan provides sufficient guarantees and should be approved. An entry for Ukraine for rabbit should therefore be included in the list.\n(6)\nDecision 2011/163/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(7)\nThe measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2011/163/EU of 16 March 2011 on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC (OJ L 70, 17.3.2011, p. 40)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/903/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."
}