
Article 1 
Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 9 February 2005.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

In Annex III, in Part II of Chapter A, points 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:
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2. 

((a)) Ovine animals
Member States, in which the population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram exceeds 750 000 animals, shall test a minimum annual sample of 10 000 ovine animals slaughtered for human consumption in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4.
((b)) Caprine animals
Member States shall test healthy slaughtered caprine animals in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A.
Where a Member State experiences difficulty in collecting sufficient numbers of healthy slaughtered caprine animals to reach its allotted minimum sample size, it may choose to replace a maximum of 50 % of its minimum sample size by testing dead caprine animals over the age of 18 months at the ratio of one to one and in addition to the minimum sample size set out in point 3.

Member State Minimum sample size in healthy slaughtered caprine animals
Spain 125 500
France 93 000
Italy 60 000
Greece 20 000
Cyprus 5 000
Austria 5 000
Other Member States all


3. 
Member States shall test in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes indicated in table B and table C, ovine and caprine animals which have died or been killed, but which were not:


— killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign, or
— slaughtered for human consumption.


Member State population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram Minimum sample size of dead ovine animals
> 750 000 10 000
100 000-750 000 1 500
40 000-100 000 500
< 40 000 100



Member State population of goats which have already kidded and goats mated Minimum sample size of dead caprine animals
> 750 000 10 000
250 000-750 000 3 000
40 000-250 000 1 000
< 40 000 100 % up to 200

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