Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries(1), as last amended by Directive 97/79/EC(2), and in particular Article 3(1) thereof,

After which the amount of bovine milk (less than, equal to or greater than 1 %) in the unknown sample can be judged directly by comparing the intensity of the bovine >ISO_7>a3- >ISO_1>and >ISO_7>a2->ISO_1>caseins (see ">ISO_7>a3 >ISO_1>C" and ">ISO_7>a2 >ISO_1>C" in Figures 4 a, b and Figure 5) to those of the 0 % and 1 % reference standards (ewe, goat) or, laboratory interim-standards (buffalo).

the name of the owner, the origin, date of entry and exit, number and identification of the ovine and caprine animals or the registration number of the holding of origin of the animals entering the centre, where applicable the approval or registration number of the assembly centre through which the animals have passed prior to entering the centre and their proposed destination,

Where, it is established that the producer practising transhumance who submits an application for the supplementary premium has not grazed 90 % of his animals for at least 90 days in an area referred to in Article 5(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 the supplementary premium shall not be paid and the ewe or goat premium shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to 50 % of the supplementary premium.

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2), Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee(3), (1) Council Directive 91/68/EEC(4) lays down animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals.

Commission Decision 2001/172/EC prohibits, with the exception of meat obtained from animals slaughtered before 1 February 2001, dispatch of fresh meat obtained from animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates originating in Great Britain and meat products produced from such meat, except after certain treatment.

i(i) each year, random checks carried out at either holding or slaughterhouse level, show with a confidence rating of 99 % that less than 0,2 % of the holdings were infected, or at least 10 % of the ovine and caprine animals of over six months of age have undergone a test carried out in accordance with Annex C with negative results;

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat and meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 (2), and in particular Article 3 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 3 thereof,

In the case of officially brucellosis (B. melitensis)-free ovine or caprine holdings which are not situated in a part of the territory which is recognized as officially brucellosis-free, and in which, after qualification, the introduction of animals is carried out in accordance with the requirements of point D, a representative number of the ovine and caprine animals over six months old must be checked annually.

Notwithstanding Article 3(a) and without prejudice to Article 2, Member States may authorise the administering to farm animals of veterinary medicinal products containing oestradiol 17ß or its ester-like derivatives for oestrus induction in cattle, horses, sheep or goats until 14 October 2006, in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC.

I have the honour to refer to negotiations recently undertaken between our respective delegations for the purpose of drawing up the provisions concerning import into the Community of mutton, lamb and goatmeat, and live sheep and goats other than pure-bred breeding animals from Iceland, in connection with implementation by the Community of the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat.

"I have the honour to refer to negotiations recently undertaken between our respective delegations for the purpose of drawing up the provisions concerning import into the Community of mutton, lamb and goatmeat, and live sheep and goats other than pure-bred breeding animals from Iceland, in connection with implementation by the Community of the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat.

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries(1) as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 807/2003(2), and in particular Article 14(3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by Directive 91/688/EEC (2), and in particular Articles 4 (1) and 18 (1) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine and fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 (2), and in particular Articles 14, 15 and 16 thereof,

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia as regards their respective territories submitted to the Commission documentation demonstrating compliance with all requirements laid down in Annex A(1)(II)(1)(b) of Directive 91/68/EEC in order that the territories of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia may be declared officially free of brucellosis (B. melitensis) as regards ovine flocks and caprine herds.

Commission Decision 94/63/EC of 31 January 1994 drawing up a provisional list of third countries from which Member States authorise imports of semen, ova and embryos of the ovine, caprine and equine species, and ova and embryos of the porcine species(13), refers in Part II of its Annex to Parts 1 and 2 of the Annex to Decision 79/542/EEC.

Having regard to the Council Directive 72/462/EEC, of 12 December 1972, on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Articles 14, 15 and 16,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries(1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001(2), and in particular Articles 15, 16(1), and 22 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals, swine and fresh meat from third countries (1), as last amended by Directive 83/91/EEC (2), and in particular Articles 4 (1) and 18 (1) (a) and (b) thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC, of 12 December 1972, on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries(2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001(3), and in particular Article 14(3) and Article 15 thereof,

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine and fresh meat or meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, and in particular Article 4 (1) thereof,

Prior to the release for free circulation of animals of the ovine and caprine species falling within CN codes 0104 10 10 or 0104 20 10 as appropriate and except where imports take place within quota regimes in accordance with Title II of Regulation (EC) No 1439/95 copies of pedigree certificates and other documents provided for in Article 4 of Directive 94/28/EC shall be presented in respect of each animal to the customs authorities.

5.Where it is established that a producer practising transhumance who submits an application for the supplementary premium has not grazed 90 % of his animals for at least 90 days in an area referred to in Article 114(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the supplementary premium shall not be paid and the ewe or goat premium shall be reduced by an amount equivalent to 50 % of the supplementary premium.

Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies(4), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1234/2003(5), lays down rules for monitoring TSEs in bovine, ovine and caprine animals.

During the negotiations recently undertaken between our respective delegations for the purpose of drawing up provisions concerning import into the European Economic Community of mutton, lamb and goatmeat, and live sheep and goats other than pure-bred breeding animals from the Socialist Republic of Romania, in connection with implementation by the Community of the common organization of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat, our delegations agreed as follows:

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat and meat products from third countries (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 (2), and in particular Articles 6, 11, 15, 16, 21a and 22 thereof,

From 1 May 2004 semen, ova and embryos of the bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine species obtained in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia (the New Member States) and intended for intra-Community trade will have to comply with all the conditions established by the relevant Community legislation.

Market prices should be recorded in respect of the "carcass weight" as defined in Commission Decision 94/434/EC of 30 May 1994 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Directive 93/25/EEC as regards the statistical surveys to be carried out by Member States on sheep and goat population and production(6), as last amended by Decision 1999/47/EC(7).

Whereas the French Government has informed the Commission, pursuant to Article 12 of Directive 76/768/EEC, that it has suspended for a period of one year the placing on the market, whether free of charge or for consideration, of cosmetic products and personal hygiene products containing extracts from the encephalon, the spinal cord or the eyeballs of bovine animals aged over six months and of ovine or caprine animals aged over 12 months;

The United Kingdom shall notify the Commission and other Member States of the date on which marking of fresh meat in accordance with Article 1 will commence and shall not permit the slaughter for human consumption of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates originating from holdings in Great Britain in protection and surveillance zones as defined in Article 9(1) and (2) of Council Directive 85/511/EEC until that date.

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed in Botswana in the approved EC zone number 6 on 7 January 2003, with the initial infection on the holding detected on 23 December 2002, and the competent veterinary authority of Botswana immediately suspended exports of de-boned fresh meat of bovine, ovine and caprine species and farmed and wild ungulates to the Community from the whole of the country.

Article 11(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1439/1995 of 26 June 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 as regards the import and export of products in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector(2) indicates the validity period for documents of origin issued by third country authorities in view of imports into the Community of sheep, goats, sheepmeat and goatmeat under tariff quotas.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 270/2002 of 14 February 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards specified risk material and epidemio-surveillance for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and amending Regulation (EC) No 1326/2001 as regards animal feeding and the placing on the market of ovine and caprine animals and products thereof(5) is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

'(i) - the first year following recognition of a Member State or region as brucellosis-free (Br. melitensis), random checks carried out at either holding or slaughterhouse level show with a confidence rating of 99 % that less than 0,2 % of the holdings were infected, or at least 10 % of the ovine and caprine animals over six months of age have undergone a test carried out in accordance with Annex C with negative results;

Commission Decision of 25 March 2002 amending Decision 93/198/EEC laying down a model for the animal health conditions and veterinary certification for the import of domestic ovine and caprine animals from third countries and amending Annex E of Council Directive 91/68/EEC laying down the animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals

Furthermore Member States shall authorize the import of domestic animals of the ovine and caprine species intended for fattening or breeding only if they satisfy the requirements of Annex II, Part 1c, Chapter 1, if destined for officially brucellosis-free flocks, or Annex II, Part 1c, Chapter 2, if destined for brucellosis-free flocks or come from a third country listed in the Annex, Part 5, to Decision 97/232/EC.`;

annually, from the second year following recognition of a Member State or region as brucellosis-free (Br. melitensis), random checks carried out at either holding or slaughterhouse level show with a confidence rating of 95 % that less than 0,2 % of the holdings were infected, or at least 5 % of the ovine and caprine animals over six months of age have undergone a test carried out in accordance with Annex C with negative results;

brucellosis (B. melitensis) is confirmed, no sheep or goats may be exported until such time as all animals infected or all the animals of species susceptible to infection are slaughtered and two tests, separated by an interval of at least three months or more, and carried out in accordance with Annex C to Directive 91/68/EEC, on all the animals of the holding over six months old, give negative results.

"The product of animal origin does not contain, and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in Annex XI, section A, to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, produced after 31 March 2001, or mechanically recovered meat obtained from bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals, produced after 31 March 2001.

Having regard to Council Directive 91/68/EEC of 28 January 1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals (1), as amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, and in particular Annex A, Chapter I, (II), 2 (i) thereof,

Commission Decision 2002/261/EC of 25 March 2002 amending Decision 93/198/EEC laying down a model for the animal health conditions and veterinary certification for the import of domestic ovine and caprine animals from third countries and amending Annex E to Council Directive 91/68/EEC laying down the animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals(3), as corrected by OJ L 94, 11.4.2002, p. 34, is to be incorporated into the Agreement.

That declaration shall indicate the location of all the land he owns, rents or uses under whatever arrangements, indicating its area and detailing those parcels used for agriculture which are located in areas referred to in Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 or in areas listed in Annex I as appropriate. Member States may provide for the specific declaration to be included in the application for the ewe and/or goat premium.

VARNISHING OR METALLIZING OF LEATHER FALLING WITHIN HEADING NOS 41.02 TO 41.06 INCLUSIVE (OTHER THAN SKIN LEATHER OF CROSSED INDIAN SHEEP AND OF INDIAN GOAT OR KID , NOT FURTHER PREPARED THAN VEGETABLE TANNED , OR IF OTHERWISE PREPARED , OBVIOUSLY UNSUITABLE FOR IMMEDIATE USE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LEATHER ARTICLES) , IN WHICH THE VALUE OF THE SKIN LEATHER USED DOES NOT EXCEED 50 % OF THE VALUE OF THE PRODUCT OBTAINED

Following outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease in Botswana, Decisions 1999/283/EC and 2000/585/EC were amended by Commission Decision 2003/74/EC(10) to suspend exports to the Community from the whole of the country of boned and matured fresh meat of bovine, ovine and caprine species and farmed and wild ungulates produced after the presumed date of first infection, pending further information required to support regionalisation.

P4 Meadows and grazing livestock = F01 (permanent pasture and meadows, not including rough grazing) + F02 (rough grazing) + J01 (equidae) + J02 (cattle under one year old) + J03 (male cattle over one but under two years old) + J04 (female cattle over one but under two years old) + J05 (male cattle two years old and over) + J06 (heifers) + J07 (dairy cows) + J08 (other cows) + J09 (sheep) + J10 (goats).

Where not otherwise provided by the respective animal health requirements, additional certification shall guarantee that the animals have remained for at least 21 days on a single holding, or since birth on the holding of origin, if the animals are less than 21 days of age, before being dispatched from that holding either directly or transiting through one single approved assembly centre and, in the case of sheep and goats, comply with the requirements of Article 4b(4) of Directive 91/68/EEC;

The Falkland Islands are included in Part 1 of the Annex to Council Decision 79/542/EEC of 21 December 1976 drawing up a list of third countries from which the Member States authorise imports of bovine animals, swine, equidae, sheep and goats, fresh meat and meat products, as last amended by Commission Decision 2001/731/EC(3), thereby establishing the authorisation in principle of such imports, subject however to the condition that animal and public health requirements be met.

Having regard to Council Directive 72/462/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon the importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from third countries(3), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001(4), and in particular Article 11(2) and Article 22(2) thereof, and the corresponding provisions of the other Directives establishing sanitary conditions and models of certificates for the importation of live animals and animal products from third countries,