{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-102/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2018/102",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/102 of 19 January 2018 amending Annex II to Decision 93/52/EEC as regards the recognition of the Autonomous Communities of Aragon and Catalonia of Spain as officially brucellosis (B. melitensis)-free regions (notified under document C(2018) 159) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2018-102",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/102\nof 19 January 2018\namending Annex II to Decision 93/52/EEC as regards the recognition of the Autonomous Communities of Aragon and Catalonia of Spain as officially brucellosis (B. melitensis)-free regions\n(notified under document C(2018) 159)\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 91/68/EEC of 28 January 1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals, and in particular Section II of Chapter 1 of Annex A thereto,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 91/68/EEC defines the animal health conditions governing trade in the Union in ovine and caprine animals. It lays down the conditions whereby Member States or regions thereof may be recognised as being officially free of brucellosis (B. melitensis).\n(2)\nCommission Decision 93/52/EEC lists, in Annex II thereto, the regions of Member States which are recognised as officially free of brucellosis (B. melitensis) in accordance with Directive 91/68/EEC.\n(3)\nSpain has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for the Autonomous Communities of Aragon and Catalonia with the conditions laid down in Directive 91/68/EEC for officially brucellosis (B. melitensis)- free status as regards ovine and caprine herds.\n(4)\nFollowing the evaluation of the documentation submitted by Spain, the Autonomous Communities of Aragon and Catalonia should be recognised as being officially free of brucellosis (B. melitensis) as regards ovine and caprine herds.\n(5)\nThe entry for Spain in Annex II to Decision 93/52/EEC should therefor be amended accordingly.\n(6)\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 46, 19.2.1991, p. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision 93/52/EEC of 21 December 1992 recording the compliance by certain Member States or regions with the requirements relating to brucellosis (B. melitensis) and according them the status of a Member State or region officially free of the disease (OJ L 13, 21.1.1993, p. 14)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2018/102/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."
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