
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 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, 7 July 2006.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission
ANNEX

In Part II of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 points 2 and 3 of Chapter A are replaced by the following:
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2.  (a) 
Member States shall test healthy slaughtered ovine animals in accordance with the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A of this point and the sampling rules set out in point 4.


Member State Minimum sample size in healthy slaughtered ovine animals
Germany 37 500
Greece 23 000
Spain 41 800
France 42 400
Ireland 40 500
Italy 43 700
the Netherlands 23 300
Austria 14 300
Poland 23 300
Portugal 14 300
United Kingdom 44 000
Other Member States all


By way of derogation from the minimum sample sizes listed in Table A Cyprus may decide to test only a minimum of two ovine animals sent for slaughter for human consumption from every flock where no TSE cases have been registered.
 (b) 
Member States shall test healthy slaughtered caprine animals in accordance with the minimum sample sizes listed in Table B of this point and the sampling rules set out in point 4.


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

 (c) Where a Member State experiences difficulty in collecting sufficient numbers of healthy slaughtered ovine or caprine animals to reach its allotted minimum sample size established in points (a) and (b), it may choose to replace a maximum of 50 % of its minimum sample size by testing dead ovine or 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. In addition a Member State may choose to replace a maximum of 10 % of its minimum sample size by testing ovine or caprine animals killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign over the age of 18 months at the ratio of one to one.

3. 
Member States shall test in accordance with the sampling rules set out in point 4 and the minimum sample sizes indicated in Table C and Table D, 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 20 000
100 000-750 000 3 000
40 000-100 000 100 % up to 1 000
< 40 000 100 % up to 200



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
40 000-250 000 100 % up to 1 000
< 40 000 100 % up to 200

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