
Article 1 
The control programme submitted by Ukraine in accordance with Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 is hereby approved as regards Salmonella in flocks of laying hens.
Article 2 
Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 3 
For a transitional period until 18 May 2015, the introduction into the Union of consignments of commodities covered by Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, accompanied by a veterinary certificate completed in accordance with the relevant model veterinary certificates BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, POU, RAT, E or EP as set out in Part 2 of Annex I to that Regulation, in their versions prior to the amendments made by this Regulation, shall continue to be authorised, provided that the veterinary certificate was completed, signed and dated no later than 3 May 2015.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of 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, 14 April 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER
ANNEX

Annexes I and III of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 are amended as follows:

((1)) Annex I is amended as follows:

((a)) In Part 1, the entry relating to Israel is replaced by the following:

ISO code and name of third country or territory Code of third country, territory, zone or compartment Description of third country, territory, zone or compartment Veterinary certificate Specific conditions Specific conditions Avian influenza surveillance status Avian influenza vaccination status Salmonella control status
Model(s) Additional guarantees Closing date Opening date
1 2 3 4 5 6 6A 6B 7 8 9
‘IL — Israel (6) IL-0 Whole country SPF       
BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP, HER X N   A  S5, ST1
SRP  P3 18.4.2015    
POU, RAT X N     
WGM VIII P3 18.4.2015    
E X      S4
EP’       
((b)) In Part 1, the entry relating to Ukraine is replaced by the following:

ISO code and name of third country or territory Code of third country, territory, zone or compartment Description of third country, territory, zone or compartment Veterinary certificate Specific conditions Specific conditions Avian influenza surveillance status Avian influenza vaccination status Salmonella control status
Model(s) Additional guarantees Closing date Opening date
1 2 3 4 5 6 6A 6B 7 8 9
‘UA — Ukraine UA-0 Whole country E, EP, POU, RAT, WGM’       
((c)) Part 2 is amended as follows:

((i)) in the section on ‘Model veterinary certificates’, under the heading ‘Additional guarantees (AG)’, the following text is added:
'“X”additional guarantees covering commodities certified in accordance with point 8 of Section I of Annex III and the model certificates BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, POU, RAT and E';
((ii)) the model veterinary certificates BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP and HER are replaced by the following:
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((iii)) the model veterinary certificate SRP is replaced by the following:
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((iv)) the model veterinary certificates POU and RAT are replaced by the following:
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((v)) The model veterinary certificates E and EP are replaced by the following:
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((2)) In Annex III, Section I, the following point 8 is added:
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8.  8.1. 

((a)) check the production and health records of the establishment;
((b)) carry out a clinical inspection in each production unit, including an evaluation of its clinical history and clinical examinations of poultry — in particular of those that appear sick — in each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended;
((c)) sample at least 60 tracheal or oropharyngeal and 60 cloacal swabs for laboratory investigations to be performed for checking the presence of Newcastle disease virus from poultry and ratites from each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended; if the number of birds present in that epidemiological unit is smaller than 60, swabs must be taken from all birds. In case of products referred to in point 8.2(c) this sampling may also take place at the slaughterhouse.
 8.2. 

((a)) breeding or productive poultry and breeding or productive ratites (BPP, BPR);
((b)) day-old chicks of poultry, day-old chicks of ratites, hatching eggs of poultry or ratites and eggs for consumption (DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, E);
((c)) meat obtained from poultry and ratites kept on such holdings (POU, RAT).
 8.3. 

((a)) for the commodities referred to in points (a) and (c) of point 8.2, within not more than 72 hours prior to dispatch to the Union or prior to the slaughter of the poultry and ratites;
((b)) for the commodities referred to in point (b) of point 8.2, at intervals of 15 days or in case of infrequent dispatch to the Union, not more than seven days before collection of the hatching eggs.
 8.4. The procedures referred to in point 8.1 must have a favorable outcome and the laboratory investigations referred to above must be performed in an official laboratory, give negative results and be available before dispatch to the Union of any of the commodities listed in points 8.2.
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