
Article 1 

1. The Member States listed in the Annex shall ban the movement of live animals of species susceptible to bluetongue and their semen, ova and embryos collected or produced from 1 May 2006 from the areas listed in the Annex to other parts of the Community or to third countries.
2. The Member States shall grant the exemptions from the ban provided for in paragraph 1 that are referred to in Articles 4 and 6 of Decision 2005/393/EC.
3. If necessary, in the light of the entomological, ecological, geographical, meteorological and epidemiological situation, the Member States concerned shall carry out complementary examinations outside the area listed in the Annex.The Member States concerned shall continue to apply any appropriate measures that they have already adopted.On the basis of the results of those examinations the Member States concerned shall review those measures and may apply additional appropriate measures.
Article 2 
Member States shall amend the measures they apply to trade so that they conform to this Decision and publish those measures. They shall immediately inform the Commission thereof.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 22 August 2006.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

 Province of Anvers
 Province of Brabant Flamand
 Province of Brabant wallon
 Province of Bruxelles-Capitale
 Province of Namur
 Province of Limbourg
 Province of Luxembourg
 Province of Liège
 Provinces of Flandre orientale and Hainaut:
The area to the east of the following roads:
— N6 running north to the R50 (commune de Mons),
— R50 running east to the N56,
— N56 running north to the N525,
— N525 running north to the N57,
— N57 running north to the N42,
— N42 running north via Wettersesteenweg (commune d’Oosterzele) to the N465,
— N465 running north to the N9,
— N9 running west to the R4,
— N4 running north to the N423,
— N423 running north to the Netherlands border.


— Stadt Aachen
— Kreis Aachen
— Stadt Bochum
— Stadt Bonn
— Kreis Borken
— Stadt Bottrop
— Kreis Coesfeld
— Stadt Dortmund
— Kreis Düren
— Stadt Düsseldorf
— Stadt Duisburg
— Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
— Erftkreis
— Kreis Euskirchen
— Stadt Essen
— Stadt Gelsenkirchen
— Stadt Hagen
— Stadt Hamm
— Kreis Heinsberg
— Stadt Herne
— Hochsauerlandkreis
— Kreis Kleve
— Stadt Köln
— Stadt Krefeld
— Stadt Leverkusen
— Märkischer Kreis
— Kreis Mettmann
— Stadt Mönchengladbach
— Stadt Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
— Kreis Neuss
— Oberbergischer Kreis
— Stadt Oberhausen
— Kreis Olpe
— Kreis Recklinghausen
— Stadt Remscheid
— Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
— Rhein-Sieg-Kreis
— Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein
— Kreis Soest
— Stadt Solingen
— Kreis Unna
— Kreis Viersen
— Kreis Wesel
— Stadt Wuppertal


— Kreis Ahrweiler
— Kreis Altenkirchen
— Kreis Bernkastel-Wittlich
— Im Kreis Birkenfeld das Gebiet nördlich der B 41
— Kreis Bitburg-Prüm
— Kreis Cochem-Zell
— Kreis Daun
— Stadt Koblenz
— Im Kreis Mainz-Bingen die Ortsgemeinden Breitscheid, Bacharach, Oberdiebach; Manubach
— Kreis Mayen-Koblenz
— Kreis Neuwied
— Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
— Rhein-Lahn-Kreis
— Stadt Trier
— Kreis Trier-Saarburg
— Westerwaldkreis


— Im Kreis Merzig-Wadern die Gemeinden Mettlach und Perl


— Im Lahn-Dill-Kreis die Gemeinden Breitscheid, Diedorf, Haiger
— Im Kreis Limburg-Weilburg die Gemeinden Dornburg, Elbtal, Elz, Hadamar, Limburg a. d. Lahn, Mengerskirchen, Waldbrunn (Westerwald)
— Im Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis die Gemeinde Heidenrod

Whole territory

Compartments 9 to 20, as defined in Animal Disease Notification System (ADNS).
