# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1293 of 29 July 2019 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 as regards the list of territories and third countries in Annex II and the model of animal health certificate for dogs, cats and ferrets set out in Annex IV (Text with EEA relevance)

EU Regulation 2019/1293 · adopted 29 July 2019

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1293 of 29 July 2019 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 as regards the list of territories and third countries in Annex II and the model of animal health certificate for dogs, cats and ferrets set out in Annex IV (Text with EEA relevance)

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## Introductory text

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1293
of 29 July 2019
amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 as regards the list of territories and third countries in Annex II and the model of animal health certificate for dogs, cats and ferrets set out in Annex IV
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the non-commercial movement of pet animals and repealing Regulation (EC) No 998/2003, and in particular Articles 13(2) and 25(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 provides, amongst others, for the lists of territories and third countries referred to in Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 and for the animal health certificate required for the non-commercial movement into a Member State of dogs, cats and ferrets from territories and third countries.
(2)
Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 was incorporated into the European Economic Area (EEA) Agreement by the Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 66/2016 and is fully applicable to Norway in the same manner as to the EU Member States.
(3)
Norway is listed in Part 1 of Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013. Decision of the EEA Joint Committee No 66/2016 regulates the non-commercial movement into a Member State of dogs, cats and ferrets from Norway. Therefore, it is necessary to delete Norway from the list of territories and third countries set out in Part 1 of Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013.
(4)
It is also necessary to reflect the new name of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia in the list of territories and third countries set out in Part 2 of Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013.
(5)
Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 provides, amongst others, that dogs, cats and ferrets moved into a Member State from a territory or a third country for non-commercial purposes are to comply with any preventive health measures for diseases or infections other than rabies adopted pursuant to Article 19(1) thereof and be accompanied by an identification document in the format of an animal health certificate. Part 1 of Annex IV to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 sets out the model for the animal health certificate.
(6)
In addition, following the mandatory review of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2011, the Commission adopted Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/772 which lays down, inter alia, the rules for the categorisation of Member States, or parts thereof, in view of their eligibility to apply preventive health measures for the control of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in dogs. Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/772 repealed Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2011 with effect from 1 July 2018.
(7)
The list of Member States complying with the rules for categorisation laid down in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/772 for the whole of their territory or parts thereof is set out in the Annex to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/878.
(8)
It is therefore appropriate to replace the references to Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1152/2011 by references to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/772 and to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/878 in the model health certificate in Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013.
(9)
Annexes II and IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(10)
To avoid any disruption of movements of dogs, cats and ferrets, the use of the animal health certificates issued in accordance with Part 1 of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 as amended by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/561 should be authorised until 28 February 2020.
(11)
The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

## 1 

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 is amended as follows:
(1) Part 1 of Annex II is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
(2) Part 2 of Annex II is replaced by the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation.
(3) Part 1 of Annex IV is replaced by the text set out in Annex III to this Regulation.

## 2 

For a transitional period until 28 February 2020, Member States shall authorise the entry of dogs, cats and ferrets moved into a Member State from a territory or a third country for non-commercial purposes and accompanied by an animal health certificate issued not later than 31 October 2019 in accordance with the model set out in Part 1 of Annex IV to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2013 as amended by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/561.

## 3 

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply from 1 November 2019.

## Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 29 July 2019.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude Juncker

## Annex I 

‘PART 1
List of territories and third countries referred to in Article 13(1) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013
ISO code
Territory or third country
AD
Andorra
CH
Switzerland
FO
Faeroe Islands
GI
Gibraltar
GL
Greenland
IS
Iceland
LI
Liechtenstein
MC
Monaco
SM
San Marino
VA
Vatican City State
’

## Annex II 

‘PART 2
List of territories and third countries referred to in Article 13(2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013
ISO code
Territory or third country
Included territories
AC
Ascension Island
AE
United Arab Emirates
AG
Antigua and Barbuda
AR
Argentina
AU
Australia
AW
Aruba
BA
Bosnia and Herzegovina
BB
Barbados
BH
Bahrain
BM
Bermuda
BQ
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (the BES Islands)
BY
Belarus
CA
Canada
CL
Chile
CW
Curaçao
FJ
Fiji
FK
Falkland Islands
HK
Hong Kong
JM
Jamaica
JP
Japan
KN
Saint Kitts and Nevis
KY
Cayman Islands
LC
Saint Lucia
MS
Montserrat
MK
North Macedonia
MU
Mauritius
MX
Mexico
MY
Malaysia
NC
New Caledonia
NZ
New Zealand
PF
French Polynesia
PM
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
RU
Russia
SG
Singapore
SH
Saint Helena
SX
Sint Maarten
TT
Trinidad and Tobago
TW
Taiwan
US
United States of America
AS — American Samoa
GU — Guam
MP — Northern Mariana Islands
PR — Puerto Rico
VI — US Virgin Islands
VC
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
VG
British Virgin Islands
VU
Vanuatu
WF
Wallis and Futuna
’

## Annex III 

‘PART 1
Model animal health certificate for the non-commercial movement into a Member State from a territory or third country of dogs, cats or ferrets in accordance with Article 5(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013
’

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