
Article 1 
Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended as follows:

((1)) Article 18 is replaced by the following:
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Article 18 

1. By way of derogation from Article 4(4), transit by road or by rail shall be authorised between the border inspection posts in Latvia, Lithuania and Poland listed in the Annex to Commission Decision 2009/821/EC, of consignments of meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry including ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products and specified pathogen-free eggs coming from and bound for Russia, directly or via another third country, where the following conditions are met:
(a) the consignment is sealed with a serially numbered seal by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Latvia, Lithuania or Poland;
(b) the documents accompanying the consignment, as provided for in Article 7 of Directive 97/78/EC, are stamped with the words “ONLY FOR TRANSIT TO RUSSIA VIA THE EU” on each page by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Latvia, Lithuania or Poland;
(c) the procedural requirements provided for in Article 11 of Directive 97/78/EC are complied with;
(d) the consignment is certified as acceptable for transit on the common veterinary entry document issued by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Latvia, Lithuania or Poland.
2. By way of derogation from Article 4(4), transit by road or rail shall be authorised between the border inspection posts in Lithuania listed in the Annex to Decision 2009/821/EC, of consignments of eggs and egg products coming from Belarus and bound for the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, where the following conditions are met:
(a) the consignment is sealed with a serially numbered seal by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Lithuania;
(b) the documents accompanying the consignment, as provided for in Article 7 of Directive 97/78/EC, are stamped with the words “ONLY FOR TRANSIT TO RUSSIA VIA LITHUANIA” on each page by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Lithuania;
(c) the procedural requirements provided for in Article 11 of Directive 97/78/EC are complied with;
(d) the consignment is certified as acceptable for transit on the common veterinary entry document issued by the official veterinarian at the border inspection post of entry in Lithuania.
3. The consignments, as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, may not be unloaded or put into storage, as referred to in Article 12(4) or in Article 13 of Directive 97/78/EC, within the Union.
4. Regular audits shall be conducted by the competent authority to ensure that the number of consignments, as referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2, and the corresponding quantities of products leaving the Union correspond with the number and quantities entering the Union.'
((2)) Annex I is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 20th 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, 8 November 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended as follows:

((1)) in Part 1, the entry for Belarus is replaced by the following:
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BY- Belarus BY-0 Whole country EP, E (both for transit only through Lithuania) IX      '
((2)) in Part 2, in the Section ‘Additional guarantees (AG)’, entry ‘IX’ is replaced by the following:
' “IX”only transit through Lithuania of consignments of eggs and egg products originating in Belarus and bound for the Russian territory of Kaliningrad shall be permitted provided that Article 18(2), (3) and (4) is complied with.'.
