
Article 1 

1. Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended in accordance with Annex I to this Decision.
2. Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended in accordance with Annex II to this Decision.
Article 2 
For a transitional period until 10 November 2020, Member States shall continue to authorise the introduction into the Union of consignments of meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines, accompanied by a model certificate issued in accordance with the model set out in Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC, as applicable before the amendments made by this Decision, provided that the certificate was issued no later than 10 October 2020.
Article 3 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 7 July 2020.
For the Commission
Stella KYRIAKIDES
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I

Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended as follows:

((1)) the following entry for Kosovo is inserted between the entry for Uruguay and the entry for South Africa:

ISO code Country of origin or part thereof 1. Domestic bovine2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine) Domestic ovine/caprine 1. Domestic porcine2. Farmed cloven-hoofed game (swine) Domestic soliped 1. Poultry2. Farmed feathered game (except ratites) Farmed ratites Domestic rabbit and farmed leporidae Wild cloven-hoofed game (excluding swine) Wild swine Wild soliped Wild leporidae (rabbits and hares) Wild game birds Wild land mammalian (excluding ungulates, solipeds and leporidae)
‘XK Kosovo(*****)(4) XXX XXX XXX XXX C or D XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX’
((2)) the following footnote is added at the end of the table between footnote (3) and footnote (*):
'
((4)) For meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines prepared from fresh meat either from a Member State of the European Union satisfying the requirements of Article 3 of Directive 2002/99/EC or from a third country listed in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 for the import into the Union of meat of poultry.'
((3)) the following footnote is added at the end of the table between footnote (****) and footnote XXX:
'
(*****) This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244/1999 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.'

ANNEX II

Annex III to Decision 2007/777/EC is amended as follows:
The following text is inserted after the third option in point II.1.3 of Part II.1 of the model animal health and public health certificate for certain meat products, treated stomachs, bladders and intestines intended for consignment to the European Union from third countries:
'
 (2) or
[II.1.3.1. has undergone the specific treatment referred to in points B, C or D in Part 4 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC laid down for the third country of origin or part thereof for the meat of the species concerned in Parts 2 or 3, as appropriate, of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC and:
2 (2) either
[II.1.3.1.1. originates in a Member State of the European Union satisfying the requirements of Article 3 of Directive 2002/99/EC;]
3 (2) or
[II.1.3.1.1. originates in a third country listed in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 for the import into the Union of meat of poultry and comes from holdings or in the case of wild game-birds killed in territories, where within a 10km radius, including where appropriate the territory of a neighbouring country, there has been no outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease for at least the previous 30 days.]'
