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97/747/EC: Commission Decision of 27 October 1997 fixing the levels and frequencies of sampling provided for by Council Directive 96/23/EC for the monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof in certain animal products (Text with EEA relevance)

Official Journal L 303 , 06/11/1997 P. 0012 - 0015

COMMISSION DECISION of 27 October 1997 fixing the levels and frequencies of sampling provided for by Council Directive 96/23/EC for the monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof in certain animal products (Text with EEA relevance) (97/747/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996 on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC (1), and in particular Article 6 (2) thereof,

Whereas Annex IV to Directive 96/23/EC fixes sampling levels and frequencies for live animals and certain products listed in Annex II and entrusts the Commission with the task of determining them for certain other animal products;

Whereas Council Directive 85/73/EEC of 29 January 1985 on the financing of veterinary inspections and controls covered by Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC (2), as last amended by Directive 96/43/EC (3), has fixed in Annex B the fees intended to ensure that the controls on live animals and products of animal origin provided for in Directive 96/23/EC are carried out;

Whereas, in the light of the experience gained through the existing national measures and the information forwarded to the Commission under existing Community rules, sampling levels and frequencies should be fixed for the animal products not already mentioned in Annex IV to Directive 96/23/EC;

Whereas the sampling levels and frequencies provided for in this Decision must be integrated into the residue monitoring plans not later than the update scheduled for 1999, to be submitted by the Member States before 31 March 1999;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The sampling levels and frequencies for the monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof in milk, eggs, rabbit meat and the meat of wild game and farmed game and honey are set out in the Annex to this Decision, which supplements the sampling levels and frequencies set out in Annex IV to Directive 96/23/EC.

Article 2

The levels and frequencies referred to in Article 1 must be complied with in the updated residue monitoring plans submitted by the Member States for 1999.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 October 1997.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

• (1) 

  OJ L 125, 23. 5. 1996, p. 10.

• (2) 

  OJ L 32, 5. 2. 1985, p. 14.

• (3) 

  OJ L 162, 1. 7. 1996, p. 1.

ANNEX

CHAPTER 1

MILK

• 1. 

  Bovine milk

• A. 

  Sampling requirements

• - 

  Each official sample must be taken by the official competent authorities in such way that it is always possible to trace it back to the farm of origin of the milk.

• - 

  The samples, according to the choice of the Member States, can be taken:

(a) either at farm level from the collection tank,

(b) or at the level of the dairy industry before the bulk tanker has discharged.

• - 

  Derogation from the above principle of traceability to the farm of origin can be accepted for the substances or residues designated in Annex I group B 3 (a), (b) and (c) of Council Directive 96/23/EC.

• - 

  Samples must be taken only from raw milk.

The sample size will depend on the analytical methods used.

• B. 

  Sampling...

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