EUR-Lex - 31978D0771 - EN

Article 1

Decision 78/642/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 1. Article 1 shall read:

"The prohibition provided for in Article 14 (2) of Directive 72/462/EEC shall not apply to the following districts of the Republic of Botswana : Kwaneng, Kgatlend, South-East, Southern, Kgalagadi or to that part of the country to the east of the railway line connecting Dibete and the Rhodesian border."

1. In the first sentence of Article 2, after the words "originating in the districts" the words "or part of the country referred to in Article 1 and" shall be inserted.

1. In Point IV of the Animal Health Certificate set out in the Annex: (a) in paragraph 1 (a): - the first indent shall read:

"were born and reared in the Republic of Botswana and which: - since October 1977 or since birth, have remained in one or more of the following districts : Kwaneng, Kgatlend, South-East, Southern, Kgalagadi

or

• since May 1978 or since birth, have remained in that part of the country to the east of the railway line connecting Dibete and the Rhodesian border,

those areas having been free of exotic foot-and-mouth disease for at least the past 12 months;

• in the fourth indent, the expression "Council Decision 78/642/EEC" is replaced by "the Decisions of the European Economic Community currently in force"; (1)OJ No L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 28. (2)OJ No L 26, 31.1.1977, p. 81. (3)OJ No L 213, 3.8.1978, p. 15.

• at the end of the fourth indent, the following is added:

"and, in the case of animals from that part of the country to the east of the railway line connecting Dibete and the Rhodesian border, were transported from that area to the slaughterhouses by road or by rail and that these bovine animals, in the 24 hours prior to loading, were subjected by a veterinarian to a clinical examination during which no symptom of foot-and-mouth disease was found;"

(b) in paragraph 1 (c) the expression "in Council Decision 78/642/EEC" is replaced by "in the Decisions of the European Economic Community currently in force".

(c) point (e) shall read : "originates from carcases which were matured at a room temperature of more than + 2 ºC for at least 24 hours before de-boning".

(d) in paragraph 2 the expression "in Council Decision 78/642/EEC" is replaced by "in the Decisions of the European Economic Community currently in force".

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 September 1978.

For the Commission

Finn GUNDELACH

Vice-President