{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-525/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2019/525",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/525 of 26 March 2019 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(2019) 2208) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2019-525",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2019/525\nof 26 March 2019\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(2019) 2208)\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 residue monitoring plans providing required guarantees (‘the plans’). The plans should cover at least the groups of residues and substances listed in Annex I to that Directive.\n(2)\nCommission Decision 2011/163/EU approves the plans submitted by certain third countries concerning specified animal and animal products listed in the Annex to that Decision (‘the list’).\n(3)\nSouth Africa has submitted to the Commission a plan for farmed game, which only covers ratites. South Africa has overcome the shortcomings identified during the latest audit carried out in February 2017 regarding the capacity of the South African authorities to carry out reliable checks for farmed game. The submitted plan provides sufficient guarantees and should be approved. The entry for South Africa for farmed game should therefore be included in the list, with a specification limiting the approval for farmed game to ratites only.\n(4)\nDecision 2011/163/EU should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(5)\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": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2019/525/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."
}