
Article 1 

1. Romania shall ensure that equidae are not dispatched to other Member States unless those equidae comply with the following conditions:
(a) they have been subjected to a Coggins test, with a negative result, carried out on a sample of blood taken within 30 days prior to dispatch, and that test and its result are entered in Section VII of the identification document provided for in Decisions 93/623/EEC and 2000/68/EC and accompanying the animal during its movement;
(b) they are accompanied by an animal health certificate in accordance with Annex C to Directive 90/426/EEC, which shall bear the additional wording:'Equidae in accordance with Commission Decision 2007/269/EC'.
2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply to equidae from holdings situated outside Romania that either transit Romania on major routes and highways or are transported through Romania directly and without interruption of the journey to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter.
3. Romania shall ensure that ova and embryos of equidae are not dispatched to other Member States, unless those products comply with the following conditions:
(a) they were collected from donor mares which were subjected to a Coggins test, with a negative result in each case, carried out on a sample of blood taken from each donor mare within 30 days prior to collection of the ova or embryos in the consignment; and
(b) the consignment of ova or embryos is accompanied by an animal health certificate in accordance with the Annex to Decision 95/294/EC which shall bear the additional wording:'Ova or embryos in accordance with Commission Decision 2007/269/EC.'
4. Romania shall regularly report to the Commission and the other Member States about the evolution of EIA and the measures implemented for its control.
Article 2 
This Decision shall apply from the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 23 April 2007.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission