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L 58/36 E N O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f t h e E u r o p e a n Union 19.2.2021
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2021/256
of 18 February 2021
amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entry for the United Kingdom in
the list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which certain poultry
commodities may be imported into and transit through the Union in relation to highly pathogenic
avian influenza
(Text with EEA relevance)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the
production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption(1), and in
particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first subparagraph of paragraph 1 of Article 8, paragraph 4 of Article 8
and Article 9(4) thereof,
Having regard to Council Directive 2009/158/EC of 30 November 2009 on animal health conditions governing intra-
Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs(2), and in particular Articles 23(1),
24(2) and 25(2) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008(3) lays down veterinary certification requirements for imports into and
transit, including storage during transit, through the Union of poultry and poultry products (‛the commodities’). It
provides that the commodities are only to be imported into and transit through the Union from the third countries,
territories, zones or compartments listed in columns 1 and 3 of the table in Part 1 of Annex I thereto.
(2) Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 also lays down the conditions for a third country, territory, zone or compartment to
be considered as free from highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
(3) In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community (Withdrawal Agreement), and in particular
Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, Directives
2002/99/EC and 2009/158/EC, as well as the Commission acts based on them, apply to and in the United Kingdom
in respect of Northern Ireland after the end of the transition period provided for in the Withdrawal Agreement.
(4) Therefore, the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland, is listed in the table in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation
(EC) No 798/2008 as a third country from which imports into and transit through the Union of certain poultry
commodities are authorised from certain parts of its territory depending on the presence of HPAI. That
regionalisation of the United Kingdom is set out in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, as amended
by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/169(4).
(5) On 12 February 2021, the United Kingdom confirmed the presence of HPAI of subtype H5N1 in a poultry holding
in Glenrothes, Scotland.
(1) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 343, 22.12.2009, p. 74.
(3) Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments
from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification
requirements (OJ L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1).
(4) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/169 of 11 February 2021 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as
regards the entry for the United Kingdom in the list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which certain poultry
commodities may be imported into and transit through the Union in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza (OJ L 49,
12.2.2021, p. 18).19.2.2021 E N O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f t h e E u r o p e a n Union L 58/37
(6) The veterinary authorities of the United Kingdom placed a 10 km control zone around the affected holding and
implemented a stamping-out policy in order to control the presence of HPAI and limit the spread of that disease.
Furthermore, the veterinary authorities of the United Kingdom confirmed that they immediately suspended issuing
veterinary certificates for consignments of commodities intended for export to the Union from the whole of the
territory of the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland.
(7) The United Kingdom has submitted information to the Commission on the epidemiological situation on its territory
and the measures it has taken to prevent the further spread of HPAI which has now been evaluated by the
Commission. On the basis of that evaluation, it is appropriate to place restrictions on the introduction into the
Union of commodities from the area in Scotland affected by HPAI, which the veterinary authorities of the United
Kingdom have placed under restrictions due to the current outbreak.
(8) The entry for the United Kingdom in the table in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 should,
therefore, be amended to take account of the current epidemiological situation in that third country.
(9) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(10) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on
Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
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, 18 February 2021.
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYENANNEX
In Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, the entry for the United Kingdom is replaced by the following:
‘GB – United GB-0 Whole country SPF
Kingdom (*)
EP, E
GB-1 The whole country of the United BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N A
Kingdom, excluding area GB-2 HEP, HER, SRP, SRA,
LT20
WGM
POU, RAT N
GB-2 The territory of the United Kingdom
corresponding to:
GB-2.1 North Yorkshire County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 6.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N54.30 and W1.47
WGM P2 1.1.2021 6.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 6.1.2021
P2
GB-2.2 North Yorkshire County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 8.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N54.29 and W1.45
WGM P2 1.1.2021 8.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 8.1.2021
P2
GB-2.3 Norfolk County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 10.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.49 and E0.95
WGM P2 1.1.2021 10.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 10.1.2021
P2
GB-2.4 Norfolk County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 11.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.72 and E0.15
WGM P2 1.1.2021 11.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 11.1.2021
P2
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The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.93 and W1.57
WGM P2 1.1.2021 17.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 17.1.2021
P2
GB-2.6 North Yorkshire County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 19.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N54.37 and W2.16
WGM P2 1.1.2021 19.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 19.1.2021
P2
GB-2.7 Orkney Islands: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 20.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2 radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N59.28 and W2.44
WGM P2 1.1.2021 20.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 20.1.2021
P2
GB-2.8 Dorset County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 20.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N51.06 and W2.27
WGM P2 1.1.2021 20.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 20.1.2021
P2
GB-2.9 Norfolk County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 23.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.52 and E0.96
WGM P2 1.1.2021 23.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 23.1.2021
P2
GB-2.10 Norfolk County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 28.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.52 and E0.95
WGM P2 1.1.2021 28.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 28.1.2021
P2
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The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10,4 km, centered on WGS84 LT20
dec. coordinates N52.53 and E0.66
WGM P2 1.1.2021 7.2.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 7.2.2021
P2
GB-2.12 Devon County: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 1.1.2021 31.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centred on WGS84 dec. LT20
coordinates N50.70 and W3.36
WGM P2 1.1.2021 31.1.2021
POU, RAT N 1.1.2021 31.1.2021
P2
GB-2.13 Near Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 27.1.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10 km, centred on WGS84 dec. LT20
coordinates N53.38 and W4.30 WGM P2 27.1.2021
POU, RAT N 27.1.2021
P2
GB-2.14 Near Redcar, Redcar and Cleveland, BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 8.2.2021 A
England: HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
The area contained within a circle of a LT20
radius of 10km, centred on WGS84 dec,
WGM P2 8.2.2021
coordinates N54.57 and W1.07
POU, RAT N 8.2.2021
P2
GB-2.15 Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland: BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, N 12.2.2021 A
The area contained within a circle of a HEP, HER, SRP, SRA, P2
radius of 10km, centred on WGS84 dec, LT20
coordinates N56.23 and W3.02
WGM P2 12.2.2021
POU, RAT N 12.2.2021
P2
(*) In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular
Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Annex references to the United Kingdom do not include Northern Ireland.’.
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