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 (Text with EEA relevance)Text with EEA relevance

• Published date: 23 August 2008
• Official Gazette Publication: Journal officiel de l’Union européenne, L 226, 23 août 2008,Gazzetta ufficiale dell’Unione europea, L 226, 23 agosto 2008,Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea, L 226, 23 de agosto de 2008

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►B 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 (Text with EEA relevance) (OJ L 226 23.8.2008, p. 1)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1291/2008 of 18 December 2008	L 340	22	19.12.2008
►M2	COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 411/2009 of 18 May 2009	L 124	3	20.5.2009
►M3	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 215/2010 of 5 March 2010	L 76	1	23.3.2010
M4	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 241/2010 of 8 March 2010	L 77	1	24.3.2010
►M5	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 254/2010 of 10 March 2010	L 80	1	26.3.2010
M6	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 332/2010 of 22 April 2010	L 102	10	23.4.2010
M7	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 925/2010 of 15 October 2010	L 272	1	16.10.2010
M8	Amended by: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 364/2011 of 13 April 2011	L 100	30	14.4.2011
►M9	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 955/2010 of 22 October 2010	L 279	3	23.10.2010
M10	Amended by: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 364/2011 of 13 April 2011	L 100	30	14.4.2011
M11	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 364/2011 of 13 April 2011	L 100	30	14.4.2011
M12	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 427/2011 of 2 May 2011	L 113	3	3.5.2011
M13	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 536/2011 of 1 June 2011	L 147	1	2.6.2011
M14	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 991/2011 of 5 October 2011	L 261	19	6.10.2011
►M15	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1132/2011 of 8 November 2011	L 290	1	9.11.2011
►M16	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1380/2011 of 21 December 2011	L 343	25	23.12.2011
M17	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 110/2012 of 9 February 2012	L 37	50	10.2.2012
M18	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 393/2012 of 7 May 2012	L 123	27	9.5.2012
M19	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 532/2012 of 21 June 2012	L 163	1	22.6.2012
M20	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1162/2012 of 7 December 2012	L 336	17	8.12.2012
M21	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 88/2013 of 31 January 2013	L 32	8	1.2.2013
M22	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 191/2013 of 5 March 2013	L 62	22	6.3.2013
M23	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 437/2013 of 8 May 2013	L 129	25	14.5.2013
M24	COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 519/2013 of 21 February 2013	L 158	74	10.6.2013
►M25	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 556/2013 of 14 June 2013	L 164	13	18.6.2013
►M26	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 866/2013 of 9 September 2013	L 241	4	10.9.2013
M27	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1204/2013 of 25 November 2013	L 316	6	27.11.2013
M28	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 166/2014 of 17 February 2014	L 54	2	22.2.2014
►M29	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 952/2014 of 4 September 2014	L 273	1	13.9.2014
M30	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/198 of 6 February 2015	L 33	9	10.2.2015
M31	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/243 of 13 February 2015	L 41	5	17.2.2015
M32	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/342 of 2 March 2015	L 60	31	4.3.2015
M33	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/526 of 27 March 2015	L 84	30	28.3.2015
►M34	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/608 of 14 April 2015	L 101	1	18.4.2015
M35	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/796 of 21 May 2015	L 127	9	22.5.2015
M36	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/908 of 11 June 2015	L 148	11	13.6.2015
M37	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1153 of 14 July 2015	L 187	10	15.7.2015
M38	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1220 of 24 July 2015	L 197	1	25.7.2015
M39	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1349 of 3 August 2015	L 208	7	5.8.2015
M40	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1363 of 6 August 2015	L 210	24	7.8.2015
M41	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/1884 of 20 October 2015	L 276	28	21.10.2015
►M42	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/2258 of 4 December 2015	L 321	23	5.12.2015
M43	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/15 of 7 January 2016	L 5	1	8.1.2016
►M44	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/39 of 14 January 2016	L 11	3	16.1.2016
M45	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/57 of 19 January 2016	L 13	49	20.1.2016
M46	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/148 of 4 February 2016	L 30	17	5.2.2016
M47	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2016/433 of 22 March 2016	L 76	29	23.3.2016
►M48	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/151 of 27 January 2017	L 23	7	28.1.2017
►M49	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/193 of 3 February 2017	L 31	13	4.2.2017
M50	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/481 of 20 March 2017	L 75	15	21.3.2017
►M51	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2017/1414 of 3 August 2017	L 203	4	4.8.2017
►M52	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2018/1650 of 5 November 2018	L 275	10	6.11.2018
►M53	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/298 of 20 February 2019	L 50	20	21.2.2019
►M54	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2019/1395 of 10 September 2019	L 234	14	11.9.2019

Corrected by:

C1	Corrigendum, OJ L 124, 20.5.2010, p. 10 (215/2010)
►C2	Corrigendum, OJ L 147, 12.6.2015, p. 24 (2015/608)
C3	Corrigendum, OJ L 326, 11.12.2015, p. 68 (2015/608)
C4	Corrigendum, OJ L 326, 11.12.2015, p. 69 (2015/1884)

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▼B

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

(Text with EEA relevance)

CHAPTER I

SUBJECT MATTER, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS

Article 1

Subject matter and scope

1. This Regulation lays down veterinary certification requirements for imports into and transit, including storage during transit, through the Community of the following commodities (the commodities):

(a) poultry, hatching eggs, day-old chicks and specified pathogen-free eggs;

(b) meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry, including ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products.

It lays down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which the commodities may be imported into the Community.

2. This Regulation shall not apply to poultry for exhibitions, shows or contests.

3. This Regulation shall apply without prejudice to specific certification requirements provided for in Community agreements with third countries.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(1) ‘poultry’ means fowl, s, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, quails, pigeons, pheasants, partridges and ratites (ratitae), reared or kept in captivity for breeding, the production of meat or eggs for consumption, or for restocking supplies of game;

(2) ‘hatching eggs’ means eggs for incubation, laid by poultry;

(3) ‘day-old chicks’ means all poultry less than 72 hours old, not yet fed and muscovy ducks (Cairina moschata) or their crosses, less than 72 hours old whether or not fed;

(4) ‘breeding poultry’ means poultry 72 hours old or more, intended for the production of hatching eggs;

(5) ‘productive poultry’ means poultry 72 hours old or more, reared for:

(a) the production of meat and/or eggs for consumption; or

(b) the restocking of supplies of game;

(6) ‘specified pathogen-free eggs’ means hatching eggs which are derived from ‘chicken flocks free from specified pathogens’, as described in the European Pharmacopoeia ( 1 ), and which are intended solely for diagnostic, research or pharmaceutical use;

(7) ‘meat’ means edible parts of the following animals:

(a) poultry, which, when relating to meat, means farmed birds, including birds that are farmed as domestic animals without being considered as such, with the exception of ratites;

(b) wild game-birds that are hunted for human consumption;

(c) ratites;

(8) ‘mechanically separated meat’ means the product obtained by removing meat from flesh-bearing bones after boning or from poultry carcases, using mechanical means resulting in the loss or modification of the muscle fibre structure;

(9) ‘minced meat’ means de-boned meat that has been minced into fragments and contains less than 1 % salt;

(10) ‘zone’ means a clearly defined part of a third country containing an animal subpopulation with a distinct health status with respect to a specific disease for which the required surveillance, control and biosecurity measures have been applied for the purpose of imports under this Regulation;

(11) ‘compartment’ means...