COMMISSION DECISION
of 19 June 2013
amending Annex II to Decision 2009/861/EC on transitional measures under Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the processing of non-compliant raw milk in certain milk processing establishments in Bulgaria
(notified under document C(2013) 3740)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2013/302/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (1), and in particular the first paragraph of Article 9 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 lays down specific rules on the hygiene of food of animal origin for food business operators. Those rules include hygiene requirements for raw milk and dairy products.
(2)
Commission Decision 2009/861/EC (2) provides for certain derogations from the requirements set out in subchapters II and III of Chapter I of Section IX of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 for the milk processing establishments in Bulgaria listed in that Decision. That Decision is to apply from 1 January 2010 to 31 December 2013.
(3)
According to Decision 2009/861/EC, certain milk-processing establishments listed in Annex II to that Decision may process non-compliant milk without separate production lines.
(4)
Bulgaria sent the Commission a revised and updated list of those milk processing establishments on 13 December 2012.
(5)
In that revised and updated list, certain establishments currently listed in Annex II to Decision 2009/861/EC have been deleted as they are now authorised to place dairy products on the intra-Union market, since they are considered to comply with the requirements set out in Chapter I of Section IX of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004. Those establishments were listed in the table in Annex II to Decision 2009/861/EC at No 6 (1112004 ‘Matev-Mlekoprodukt’ OOD), No 16 (2712010 ‘Kamadzhiev-milk’ EOOD), No 37 (1212022 ‘Milkkomm’ EOOD), No 56 (BG 2612042 ‘Bulmilk’ OOD), No 61 (1712013 ET ‘Deniz’), No 70 (BG 1812003 ‘Sirma Prista’ AD) and No 78 (1812005 ‘DAV- Viktor Simonov’ EOOD).
(6)
Decision 2009/861/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
(7)
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health and neither the European Parliament nor the Council has opposed them,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Annex II to Decision 2009/861/EC is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Decision.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 19 June 2013.