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PURPOSE: \n to update, recast and consolidate the animal health rules in relation to the\n trade in aquaculture products.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Council Directive.
CONTENT: in\n 2004, the European aquaculture industry was estimated to be worth more than\n EUR 2.5 billion. However, financial loses due to disease are estimated to be\n 20% of the production value. The purpose of this proposal, therefore, is to\n introduce modern and targeted legislation, which seeks to reduce these high\n costs. A reduction in diseases by 20% could equate into savings worth EUR 100\n million per annum.
Given that\n existing legislation was initially developed over two decades ago, it can no\n longer usefully support the EU’s aquaculture industry. When initially\n approved, the EU’s aquaculture provisions served an EU consisting of twelve\n Member States only and focused essentially on the factors mostly affecting\n the industry of the then twelve, namely salmonid (trout and salmon) and\n oyster farming. EU regulatory provisions now need to be updated to reflect\n the broader range of aquaculture practises and species that are found in an\n expanded EU.
The current\n proposal takes account of significant developments in the industry, which\n have taken place in recent years. It also takes account of experience gained\n through 15 years of application of the present legislation, as well as\n scientific advances in this field. Moreover, the rules have been updated to\n bring the EU in to line with international agreements and standards (like\n WTO/SPS and OIE).
This proposal\n will repeal existing primary legislation and merge the current three\n Directives into one. Such an approach will allow the regulatory framework of\n the EU’s aquaculture industry to meet 21st Century challenges as\n well as simplifying and modernising existing rules. Further objectives\n of the revision are to generate greater flexibility and to delegate more\n operational responsibility to the Member States, thereby allowing local or\n regional authorities greater powers to prevent and contain aquatic diseases.
It is\n important to stress that the general principles laid down in the three\n Directives will be maintained. In addition to the current three Directives\n there are 13 implementing Decisions, which have been adopted pursuant to\n those Directives. These implementing Decisions will remain in force until\n they are repealed by a specific Decision, or replaced by a Decision adopted\n pursuant to this proposal.
The proposed\n Directive introduces the principle that aquatic animal diseases should\n receive the same treatment as terrestrial animal diseases. This would oblige\n the Community to offer financial contributions under Community law in cases\n where a slaughter/eradication policy needs to be carried out. In addition,\n the Directive allows for the application of more stringent rules where this\n is necessary for the protection of species from an environmental or\n conservation point of view. Thus, the Directive would not conflict with the\n EU Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and\n flora. Indeed, it is hoped that a shift in policy towards Member State responsibility for disease will help overall conservation and environmental\n efforts.
Public health\n issues are not dealt with in this proposal, as it is regulated by the\n ‘hygiene’ package. Lastly, none of the diseases or pathogens covered by this\n proposal is known to have zoonotic potential.
More\n specifically speaking, the proposed Directive would include the following\n legal elements:
§ \n General requirements for production and\n processing, including authorisations and provisions relating to operations.
§ \n Animal health provisions for placing aquatic\n animals and related products on the market.
§ \n Animal health provisions for introducing\n third-country aquatic animals into the EU.
§ \n Provisions for notification and control of\n certain diseases in aquatic animals.
§ \n Provisions relating to a declaration of a\n ‘disease free’ status.
§ \n Requirements relating to the relevant Member State authorities and laboratories.
§ \n Technical requirements and guidelines\n specified in the Annexes.
As far as the\n budget is concerned the Commission proposes that the economic impact on the\n Community budget is limited. Financing should focus on two areas. Firstly\n offering economic compensation in the case of disease control and secondly,\n offering financial support for the implementation of primary legislation and\n the adoption of secondary legislation. In terms of the first area, it is\n being proposed that financial contributions for aquatic animal diseases and\n the control thereof should be financed through the European Fisheries Fund.\n As yet, however, it is difficult for the Commission to assess the exact\n impact this will have on the EFF, as much will depend on the size of the\n farms affected, the value of the animals kept at the farms etc. On the second\n point, the Commission deems it necessary to draw up, adopt and maintain\n secondary legislation relating to the control of aquatic diseases. Activities\n under this heading include, for example, the organisation of working-groups\n and meetings with stake-holders. In addition, following the entry into force\n of the Directive, FVO inspections of Member State implementation will be\n necessary in 2008/09 – an estimated 13 or 14 per year.
For further information concerning the financial implications of\n this measure, please refer to the financial statement.
\nThe committee adopted the report by Heinz KINDERMANN\n (PES, DE) broadly approving the proposed directive on animal health\n requirements for aquaculture animals and products and on the prevention and\n control of certain diseases in aquatic animals. MEPs adopted a number of mainly\n technical amendments under the consultation procedure, adding some\n requirements of traceability of an animal's origin, introducing a detailed\n procedure to be followed for declaring a zone disease-free after an outbreak,\n stipulating that the purchase and use of antibiotics to combat certain\n diseases in fish must comply with EU legislation in force, and proposing that\n licences be granted to individual establishments rather than to businesses.\n Lastly, given the scale of the organisational changes involved, the committee\n wanted to allow Member States an extra year to transpose and implement the\n directive, saying that the dates proposed by the Commission were\n over-ambitious. It therefore stipulated that Member States should adopt and\n publish the necessary provisions by 30 June 2007 rather than 30 June 2006,\n and apply them from 1 January 2008 rather than from 1 January 2007 as\n originally proposed. It also called for the Commission to provide an\n assessment of the directive's application within two and a half years of its\n entry into force.
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The European\n Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Heinz KINDERMANN (PES, DE),\n subject to some technical amendments. (Please see the summary of 21/03/2006.)\n
\nPURPOSE: to\n update, recast and consolidate the animal health rules in relation to the\n trade in aquaculture products.
LEGISLATIVE\n ACT: Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for\n aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control\n of certain diseases in aquatic animals.
BACKGROUND: in\n 2004, the European aquaculture industry was estimated to be worth more than\n EUR 2.5 billion. However, financial loses due to disease are estimated to be\n 20% of the production value. A reduction in diseases by 20% could equate into\n savings worth EUR 100 million per annum.
Previous\n Community aquaculture provisions served an EU consisting of twelve Member\n States only and focused essentially on the factors mostly affecting the\n industry of the then twelve, namely salmonid (trout and salmon) and oyster\n farming. That legislation was developed over two decades ago and it can no longer\n usefully support the EU’s aquaculture industry.
CONTENT: the\n purpose of this Directive, therefore, is to introduce modern and targeted\n legislation, which seeks to address the most pressing issues facing\n aquaculture products across the Community today. Such an approach will allow\n the regulatory framework of the EU’s aquaculture industry to meet 21st\n Century challenges as well as simplifying and modernising existing\n rules. EU regulatory provisions have been updated to reflect the\n broader range of aquaculture practises and species that are found in an\n expanded EU.
The new\n Directive takes account of significant developments in the industry, which\n have taken place in recent years. It also takes account of experience gained\n through 15 years of application of the present legislation, as well as\n scientific advances in this field. Moreover, the rules have been updated to\n bring the EU in line with international agreements and standards (like\n WTO/SPS and OIE).
In agreeing to\n the new Directive existing primary legislation has been repealed to be\n replaced by this one Council Directive. One intention of the new Directive is\n to generate greater flexibility and to delegate more operational\n responsibility to the Member States, thereby allowing local or regional\n authorities greater powers to prevent and contain aquatic diseases.
The Directive\n introduces the principle that aquatic animal diseases should receive the same\n treatment as terrestrial animal diseases. This obliges the Community to offer\n financial contributions under Community law in cases where a\n slaughter/eradication policy needs to be carried out. (see also\n CNS/2005/0154). In addition, the Directive allows for the application of more\n stringent rules where this is necessary for the protection of species from an\n environmental or conservation point of view. Thus, the Directive does not\n conflict with the EU Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of\n wild fauna and flora. Indeed, it is hoped that a shift in policy towards Member State responsibility for disease will help overall conservation and environmental\n efforts.
More\n specifically speaking, the Directive sets out the following provisions:
- \n General requirements for production and\n processing, including authorisations and provisions relating to operations.
- \n Animal health provisions for placing aquatic\n animals and related products on the market.
- \n Animal health provisions for introducing\n third-country aquatic animals into the EU.
- \n Provisions for notification and control of\n certain diseases in aquatic animals.
- \n Control programmes and vaccinations.
- \n Provisions relating to a declaration of a\n ‘disease free’ status.
- \n Requirements relating to the relevant Member State authorities and laboratories.
- \n Technical requirements and guidelines\n specified in the Annexes.
TRANSPOSITION:\n Member States must adopt and publish by 1 May 2008 the laws, regulations and\n administrative provisions needed to comply with this Directive. They must\n comply with the Directive before 14 December 2008.
APPLY FROM: 1\n August 2008.
ENTRY INTO FORCE:\n 14 December 2006.
\nPURPOSE: \n to update, recast and consolidate the animal health rules in relation to the\n trade in aquaculture products.
PROPOSED ACT:\n Council Directive.
CONTENT: in\n 2004, the European aquaculture industry was estimated to be worth more than\n EUR 2.5 billion. However, financial loses due to disease are estimated to be\n 20% of the production value. The purpose of this proposal, therefore, is to\n introduce modern and targeted legislation, which seeks to reduce these high\n costs. A reduction in diseases by 20% could equate into savings worth EUR 100\n million per annum.
Given that\n existing legislation was initially developed over two decades ago, it can no\n longer usefully support the EU’s aquaculture industry. When initially\n approved, the EU’s aquaculture provisions served an EU consisting of twelve\n Member States only and focused essentially on the factors mostly affecting\n the industry of the then twelve, namely salmonid (trout and salmon) and\n oyster farming. EU regulatory provisions now need to be updated to reflect\n the broader range of aquaculture practises and species that are found in an\n expanded EU.
The current\n proposal takes account of significant developments in the industry, which\n have taken place in recent years. It also takes account of experience gained\n through 15 years of application of the present legislation, as well as\n scientific advances in this field. Moreover, the rules have been updated to\n bring the EU in to line with international agreements and standards (like\n WTO/SPS and OIE).
This proposal\n will repeal existing primary legislation and merge the current three\n Directives into one. Such an approach will allow the regulatory framework of\n the EU’s aquaculture industry to meet 21st Century challenges as\n well as simplifying and modernising existing rules. Further objectives\n of the revision are to generate greater flexibility and to delegate more\n operational responsibility to the Member States, thereby allowing local or\n regional authorities greater powers to prevent and contain aquatic diseases.
It is\n important to stress that the general principles laid down in the three\n Directives will be maintained. In addition to the current three Directives\n there are 13 implementing Decisions, which have been adopted pursuant to\n those Directives. These implementing Decisions will remain in force until\n they are repealed by a specific Decision, or replaced by a Decision adopted\n pursuant to this proposal.
The proposed\n Directive introduces the principle that aquatic animal diseases should\n receive the same treatment as terrestrial animal diseases. This would oblige\n the Community to offer financial contributions under Community law in cases\n where a slaughter/eradication policy needs to be carried out. In addition,\n the Directive allows for the application of more stringent rules where this\n is necessary for the protection of species from an environmental or\n conservation point of view. Thus, the Directive would not conflict with the\n EU Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and\n flora. Indeed, it is hoped that a shift in policy towards Member State responsibility for disease will help overall conservation and environmental\n efforts.
Public health\n issues are not dealt with in this proposal, as it is regulated by the\n ‘hygiene’ package. Lastly, none of the diseases or pathogens covered by this\n proposal is known to have zoonotic potential.
More\n specifically speaking, the proposed Directive would include the following\n legal elements:
§ \n General requirements for production and\n processing, including authorisations and provisions relating to operations.
§ \n Animal health provisions for placing aquatic\n animals and related products on the market.
§ \n Animal health provisions for introducing\n third-country aquatic animals into the EU.
§ \n Provisions for notification and control of\n certain diseases in aquatic animals.
§ \n Provisions relating to a declaration of a\n ‘disease free’ status.
§ \n Requirements relating to the relevant Member State authorities and laboratories.
§ \n Technical requirements and guidelines\n specified in the Annexes.
As far as the\n budget is concerned the Commission proposes that the economic impact on the\n Community budget is limited. Financing should focus on two areas. Firstly\n offering economic compensation in the case of disease control and secondly,\n offering financial support for the implementation of primary legislation and\n the adoption of secondary legislation. In terms of the first area, it is\n being proposed that financial contributions for aquatic animal diseases and\n the control thereof should be financed through the European Fisheries Fund.\n As yet, however, it is difficult for the Commission to assess the exact\n impact this will have on the EFF, as much will depend on the size of the\n farms affected, the value of the animals kept at the farms etc. On the second\n point, the Commission deems it necessary to draw up, adopt and maintain\n secondary legislation relating to the control of aquatic diseases. Activities\n under this heading include, for example, the organisation of working-groups\n and meetings with stake-holders. In addition, following the entry into force\n of the Directive, FVO inspections of Member State implementation will be\n necessary in 2008/09 – an estimated 13 or 14 per year.
For further information concerning the financial implications of\n this measure, please refer to the financial statement.
\nThe committee adopted the report by Heinz KINDERMANN\n (PES, DE) broadly approving the proposed directive on animal health\n requirements for aquaculture animals and products and on the prevention and\n control of certain diseases in aquatic animals. MEPs adopted a number of mainly\n technical amendments under the consultation procedure, adding some\n requirements of traceability of an animal's origin, introducing a detailed\n procedure to be followed for declaring a zone disease-free after an outbreak,\n stipulating that the purchase and use of antibiotics to combat certain\n diseases in fish must comply with EU legislation in force, and proposing that\n licences be granted to individual establishments rather than to businesses.\n Lastly, given the scale of the organisational changes involved, the committee\n wanted to allow Member States an extra year to transpose and implement the\n directive, saying that the dates proposed by the Commission were\n over-ambitious. It therefore stipulated that Member States should adopt and\n publish the necessary provisions by 30 June 2007 rather than 30 June 2006,\n and apply them from 1 January 2008 rather than from 1 January 2007 as\n originally proposed. It also called for the Commission to provide an\n assessment of the directive's application within two and a half years of its\n entry into force.
\n
The European\n Parliament adopted a resolution drafted by Heinz KINDERMANN (PES, DE),\n subject to some technical amendments. (Please see the summary of 21/03/2006.)\n
\nPURPOSE: to\n update, recast and consolidate the animal health rules in relation to the\n trade in aquaculture products.
LEGISLATIVE\n ACT: Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for\n aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control\n of certain diseases in aquatic animals.
BACKGROUND: in\n 2004, the European aquaculture industry was estimated to be worth more than\n EUR 2.5 billion. However, financial loses due to disease are estimated to be\n 20% of the production value. A reduction in diseases by 20% could equate into\n savings worth EUR 100 million per annum.
Previous\n Community aquaculture provisions served an EU consisting of twelve Member\n States only and focused essentially on the factors mostly affecting the\n industry of the then twelve, namely salmonid (trout and salmon) and oyster\n farming. That legislation was developed over two decades ago and it can no longer\n usefully support the EU’s aquaculture industry.
CONTENT: the\n purpose of this Directive, therefore, is to introduce modern and targeted\n legislation, which seeks to address the most pressing issues facing\n aquaculture products across the Community today. Such an approach will allow\n the regulatory framework of the EU’s aquaculture industry to meet 21st\n Century challenges as well as simplifying and modernising existing\n rules. EU regulatory provisions have been updated to reflect the\n broader range of aquaculture practises and species that are found in an\n expanded EU.
The new\n Directive takes account of significant developments in the industry, which\n have taken place in recent years. It also takes account of experience gained\n through 15 years of application of the present legislation, as well as\n scientific advances in this field. Moreover, the rules have been updated to\n bring the EU in line with international agreements and standards (like\n WTO/SPS and OIE).
In agreeing to\n the new Directive existing primary legislation has been repealed to be\n replaced by this one Council Directive. One intention of the new Directive is\n to generate greater flexibility and to delegate more operational\n responsibility to the Member States, thereby allowing local or regional\n authorities greater powers to prevent and contain aquatic diseases.
The Directive\n introduces the principle that aquatic animal diseases should receive the same\n treatment as terrestrial animal diseases. This obliges the Community to offer\n financial contributions under Community law in cases where a\n slaughter/eradication policy needs to be carried out. (see also\n CNS/2005/0154). In addition, the Directive allows for the application of more\n stringent rules where this is necessary for the protection of species from an\n environmental or conservation point of view. Thus, the Directive does not\n conflict with the EU Directive on the conservation of natural habitats and of\n wild fauna and flora. Indeed, it is hoped that a shift in policy towards Member State responsibility for disease will help overall conservation and environmental\n efforts.
More\n specifically speaking, the Directive sets out the following provisions:
- \n General requirements for production and\n processing, including authorisations and provisions relating to operations.
- \n Animal health provisions for placing aquatic\n animals and related products on the market.
- \n Animal health provisions for introducing\n third-country aquatic animals into the EU.
- \n Provisions for notification and control of\n certain diseases in aquatic animals.
- \n Control programmes and vaccinations.
- \n Provisions relating to a declaration of a\n ‘disease free’ status.
- \n Requirements relating to the relevant Member State authorities and laboratories.
- \n Technical requirements and guidelines\n specified in the Annexes.
TRANSPOSITION:\n Member States must adopt and publish by 1 May 2008 the laws, regulations and\n administrative provisions needed to comply with this Directive. They must\n comply with the Directive before 14 December 2008.
APPLY FROM: 1\n August 2008.
ENTRY INTO FORCE:\n 14 December 2006.
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