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19 Amendments of Marc TARABELLA related to 2013/0136(COD)

Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Commission Communication on the new Animal Health Strategy for the European Union stresses that a joint approach should be taken to prevention and biosecurity measures, given that contagious disease agents can spread easily from one farm to another.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 103 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 38
(38) Operators, animal professionals and pet keepers working with animals are in the best position to observe and ensure the health of the animals and products under their responsibility. They should therefore hold primary responsibility for carrying out measures for the prevention and control of the spread of diseases among animals and products under their responsibility, and should work individually and collectively to improve animal health practices.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 109 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 46
(46) The competent authority cannot always perform all the activities required to be carried out by it under this Regulation due to the limited resources. For that reason it is necessary to provide a legal basis for the delegation of the performance of those activities to veterinarians, as well as to competent professional organisations recognised by Member State authorities. In order to ensure that the necessary conditions are laid down for the general application of disease prevention and control measures across the Union, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission in respect to the delegation of the performance of those activities to veterinarians and their appropriate training.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 121 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 58
(58) To ensure close collaboration and exchange of information between operators and veterinarians or aquatic animal health professionals and to supplement the surveillance undertaken by operators, establishments should, as appropriate for the type of production and other relevant factors, be subject to animal health visits. In order to ensure a proportionate level of surveillance to the risks involved inrisk management commensurate with the degree of exposure of different types of establishments, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union should be delegated to the Commission concerning the criteria and the content of such animal health visits in different types of establishassessments. In the event that specific risks emerge, operators not involved in collective risk management actions should agree to allow their establishments to undergo such assessments.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 264 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point a
a) be responsible for the health of kept animals and products under their responsibility; , save where specific biological situations arise which are completely outside their control;
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b – introductory part
b) take appropriategeneral biosecurity measures as set out in professional best practice guides, and appropriate additional biosecurity measures, taking into account the risks involved, to ensure the health of those kept animals and products and to prevent the introduction into, development and multiplication within and spread between and from such kept animals and products under their responsibility of diseases, except where that is specifically authorised for scientific purposes, as appropriate for:
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 277 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 1 – point b a (new)
(ba) ensure that the establishments for which they are responsible are assessed by a veterinarian or an expert from the competent joint authorities, when risks specific to those establishments require such an assessment to be carried out.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 281 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 9 – paragraph 2
2. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 253 concerning biosecurity measures supplementing the rules laid down in paragraph 1(b) and the assessment visits provided for in paragraph 1(ba) of this Article.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 322 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 12 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States may initiate or support voluntary collective steps to monitor animal diseases.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 331 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. The competent authority may delegate one or more of the following activities to veterinarians and to competent, publicly recognised professional organisations:
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 342 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 – point b
b) which other activities may be delegated to veterinarians and to competent, publicly recognised professional organisations in addition to those provided for in paragraph 1 of this Article, and under which circumstances and under which conditions;
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 379 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 22 – point c a (new)
ca) and may take part in any existing voluntary collective steps to monitor animal diseases.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 382 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 23
Article 23 Animal health visits 1. Operators shall ensure that establishments under their responsibility receive animal health visits from a veterinarian when appropriate due to the risks posed by the establishment, taking into account: a) the type of establishment; b) the categories and species of kept animals on the establishment; c) any other relevant surveillance, quality assurance schemes or official controls that the kept animals and type of establishment are subject to. Those animal health visits shall be at frequencies that are proportionate to the risks posed by the establishment. They may be combined with visits for other purposes. 2. The animal health visits provided for in paragraph 1 shall be for the purposes of: a) the detection of any signs indicative of the occurrence of listed diseases or emerging diseases; b) providing advice to the operator on biosecurity and other animal health matters, as relevant for the type of establishment and the categories and species of kept animals on the establishment.deleted
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 401 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 24
Article 24 Delegation of powers concerning animal health visits The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 253 concerning: a) supplementing: i) the criteria laid down in Article 23(1) to be taken into account when determining: - which type of establishments must be subject to animal health visits; - the frequency of such animal health visits; ii) the requirements laid down in Article 23(2) as regards the content and frequency of animal health visits for the different types of establishments, to ensure that the purposes of the animal health visits are achieved; b) determining the types of establishments to be subject to animal health visits.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 406 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 25 – paragraph 2
2. The surveillance shall be designed to ensure the timely detection of the presence of the listed diseases referred to in Article 8(1)(e) and emerging diseases by collecting, collating and analysing relevant information relating to the disease situation. This surveillance shall complement that carried out by operators both on an individual basis and collectively through voluntary programmes.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 660 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 127 – point c
(c) for a period of time appropriate for those listed diseases and the species and category of ungulates or poultry to be moved, no kept ungulates or poultry have been introduced into the establishment of origin, except in cases where appropriate biosecurity measures have been taken;
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 662 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 128 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) residency periods and biosecurity measures provided for in Article 127(b);
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 665 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 130 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 a (new)
However, animal collection operations in the Member State of origin shall not be considered an assembly, unless they are carried out within a maximum period of two days and the collected animals meet the requirements laid down in Article 131(a) and are from the same geographical area.
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI
Amendment 667 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 130 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – introductory part
However, tThe Member State of origin may also allow assembly operations in their territory to take place on means of transport, collecting kept ungulates and poultry directly from their establishments of origin, provided that they are not unloaded again following those operations before:
2013/12/09
Committee: AGRI