26.5.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 187/8

Corrigendum to Commission Decision 94/438/EC of 7 June 1994 laying down the criteria for classifying third countries and parts thereof with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of fresh poultrymeat and amending Decision 93/342/EEC

( Official Journal of the European Union L 181 of 15 July 1994 )

On page 36, Annex E is replaced by the following:

ANNEX E

additional guarantees to be included in the animal health certificate for import of live poultry or hatching eggs into the community from third countries where article 4(4) of decision 93/342/EEC applies

Although the use of vaccines against Newcastle disease which do not fulfil the specific criteria of Annex B, heading 2 of Decision 93/342/EEC is not prohibited in … (1), it is certified that in relation to the:

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live poultry (2),

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breeding poultry from which the hatching eggs (2)/day-old chicks (2) are derived,

the following guarantees apply:

(a)

they have not been vaccinated for at least 12 months with such vaccines;

(b)

they originate from a flock which has undergone, no earlier than 14 days preceding consignment or collecting of hatching eggs, on the basis of a random sample of cloacal swabs of at least 60 birds of each flock concerned, a virus isolation test for Newcastle disease, carried out in an official laboratory, in which no avian paramyxoviruses with an Intracerebral Pathogenicity Index (ICPI) of more than 0,4 have been found;

(c)

they have not been in contact during the last 60 days before consignment or collecting of hatching eggs, with poultry which do not fulfil the guarantees mentioned respectively under (a) and (b); and

(d)

they have been isolated under official surveillance on the holding of origin during the 14-day period mentioned in (b); and

(e)

when it concerns export of day-old chicks, the hatching eggs from which they hatched have not been in contact in the hatchery or during transport with eggs or poultry which do not fulfil the guarantees under (a) to (d).

(1) Name of the country of origin.

(2) Delete where not applicable.