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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-552/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2020/552",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/552 of 20 April 2020 amending Annexes I and II to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the officially tuberculosis-free status of the region of Valle d’Aosta in Italy and of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal, and as regards the officially brucellosis-free status of several regions of Portugal (notified under document C(2020) 2260) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-552",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/552\nof 20 April 2020\namending Annexes I and II to Decision 2003/467/EC as regards the officially tuberculosis-free status of the region of Valle d’Aosta in Italy and of the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal, and as regards the officially brucellosis-free status of several regions of Portugal\n(notified under document C(2020) 2260)\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 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine, and in particular paragraph 4 of Annex A.I and paragraph 7 of Annex A.II thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nDirective 64/432/EEC applies to trade within the Union in bovine animals. It lays down the conditions whereby a Member State or a region thereof may be declared officially tuberculosis-free or officially brucellosis-free as regards bovine herds.\n(2)\nArticle 1(2) of Commission Decision 2003/467/EC provides that regions of Member States listed in Chapter 2 of Annex I thereto are declared officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.\n(3)\nItaly has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for the region of Valle d’Aosta with the conditions laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC in order to be recognised as officially tuberculosis-free region as regards bovine herds.\n(4)\nPortugal has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for the Autonomous Region of the Azores except the island of São Miguel with the conditions laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC in order to be recognised as officially tuberculosis-free region as regards bovine herds.\n(5)\nFollowing the evaluation of that supporting documentation, the region of Valle d’Aosta in Italy and the Autonomous Region of the Azores in Portugal except the island of São Miguel should be recognised as officially tuberculosis-free as regards bovine herds.\n(6)\nAnnex I to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(7)\nArticle 2(2) of Decision 2003/467/EC provides that regions of Member States listed in Chapter 2 of Annex II thereto are declared officially brucellosis-free as regards bovine herds.\n(8)\nPortugal has submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance for the administrative regions (distritos) Aveiro, Viseu, Guarda, Coimbra, Leiria and Castelo Branco within the superior administrative region (região) Centro with the conditions laid down in Directive 64/432/EEC in order to be recognised as officially brucellosis-free regions as regards bovine herds.\n(9)\nFollowing the evaluation of that supporting documentation, the administrative regions (distritos) Aveiro, Viseu, Guarda, Coimbra, Leiria and Castelo Branco in Portugal should be recognised as officially brucellosis-free as regards bovine herds.\n(10)\nAnnex II to Decision 2003/467/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(11)\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 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Commission Decision 2003/467/EC of 23 June 2003 establishing the official tuberculosis, brucellosis, and enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status of certain Member States and regions of Member States as regards bovine herds (OJ L 156, 25.6.2003, p. 74)."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/552/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."
}