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REGULATIONS
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 497/2012
of 7 June 2012
amending Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 as regards the requirements for imports of animals
susceptible to bluetongue
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
which do not pose the risk of undesired local circulation
of the vaccine virus to unvaccinated cattle, sheep and
goats. It is now widely accepted that vaccination with
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
inactivated vaccines is the preferred tool for the control
Union,
of bluetongue and for the prevention of clinical disease
in such animals in the Union.
Having regard to Council Directive 2004/68/EC of 26 April
2004 laying down animal health rules for the importation
into and transit through the Community of certain live
(4)
To ensure better control of the spread of the bluetongue
ungulate animals, amending Directives 90/426/EEC and
virus and to reduce the burden on the agricultural sector
92/65/EEC and repealing Directive 72/462/EEC (
posed by that disease, the rules on vaccination laid down

1 ), and in
particular Article 6(1), Article 7(e), and Article 13(1) thereof,
in Council Directive 2000/75/EC of 20 November 2000
laying down specific provisions for the control and eradi
cation of bluetongue ( 3 ) were recently amended by
Directive 2012/5/EU of the European Parliament and of
Whereas:
the Council ( 4 ) to take account of the recent tech
nological developments in vaccine production.
(1) Commission
Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
of
12
March
2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or
parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the
European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and
(5) Accordingly,
Directive
2000/75/EC
now
provides
for
the
use of inactivated vaccines in all parts of the EU.
the veterinary certification requirements (


2 ) lays down the
list of third countries, territories or parts thereof from
which live ungulate animals, including those susceptible
to bluetongue, may be introduced into the Union and the
veterinary certification requirements for such intro
(6) As
a
result
of
the
evolving
epidemiological
situation
as
duction.
regards bluetongue, and to align with the World Organi
sation for Animal Health (OIE) standards, Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 of 26 October 2007
on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC
(2)
In particular, with regard to animals susceptible to blue
tongue, certificates BOV-X, BOV-Y, OVI-X, OVI-Y and
as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and
RUM set out in Part 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU)
restrictions on movements of certain animals of
No 206/2010 include inter alia the requirement that the
susceptible species in relation to bluetongue ( 5 ) was
animals come from a territory which, at the date of issue
amended recently. The EU standards require the
of the certificate accompanying them had been free from
absence of virus circulation for a minimum period of
bluetongue for a period of twelve months.
two years in order to consider a territory free from blue

tongue. The period of twelve months referred to in the
relevant certificates set out in Part 2 of Annex I to
Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 should therefore be
(3) As
a
result
of
new
technical
developments, "inactivated
amended accordingly.
vaccines" against bluetongue have become available
( 3 ) OJ L 327, 22.12.2000, p. 74.
( 1 ) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 321.
( 4 ) OJ L 81, 21.3.2012, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 73, 20.3.2010, p. 1.
( 5 ) OJ L 283, 27.10.2007, p. 37.

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(7) Directive 2000/75/EC and Regulation (EC) No HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
1266/2007 apply to intra-Union movements of live
ungulates of species susceptible to bluetongue. It is
Article 1
appropriate that the models of veterinary certificates
Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 is amended in
BOV-X, BOV-Y, OVI-X, OVI-Y and RUM set out in Part
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 be
amended to align the animal health requirements for
Article 2
imports into the Union, as regards bluetongue, to the
For a transitional period until 30 June 2012, consignments of
requirements for intra-Union movement in animals
live ungulates accompanied by a certificate issued before the
susceptible to that disease.
date of entry into force of this Regulation in accordance with
the models BOV-X, BOV-Y, OVI-X, OVI-Y or RUM set out in
Part 2 of Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 before the
(8) Regulation
(EU)
No
206/2010
should
therefore
be amendments introduced by this Regulation may continue to be
amended accordingly.
introduced into the Union.
Article 3
(9) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in This Regulation shall enter into force on the the twentieth day
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 June 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO

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