Commission Regulation (EU) 2022/175 of 9 February 2022 amending Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards import conditions for movements of ovine and caprine animals intended for breeding from Great Britain into Northern Ireland (Text with EEA relevance)

• Published date: 10 February 2022
• Subject Matter: Veterinary legislation,Public health,Internal market - Principles
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Union, L 029, 10 February 2022

10.2.2022 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 29/1

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) 2022/175

of 9 February 2022

amending Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards import conditions for movements of ovine and caprine animals intended for breeding from Great Britain into Northern Ireland

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (1), and in particular Article 23a, introductory phrase and point (m), thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in animals, including classical scrapie.

(2) More specifically, Chapter E of Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 lays down the requirements for the importation into the Union of ovine and caprine animals. Those requirements provide that such imports are to be accompanied by an animal health certificate attesting, inter alia, that ovine and caprine animals for breeding imported into the Union must come from a holding with a negligible or controlled risk of classical scrapie or, for ovine animals, be of the ARR/ARR prion protein genotype, which confers resistance to classical scrapie.

(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, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001, as well as the Commission acts based on it, 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. Accordingly, live animals shipped from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are now subject to the regime applicable to imports from any third country.

(4) Until the entry into force of the Withdrawal Agreement, there was an estimated annual intra-national movement of around 8 000 breeding sheep, mainly of the Scottish Blackface breed, from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, not subject to the rules on intra-Union trade and importation into the Union. Many of the holdings usually trading sheep between Great Britain and Northern Ireland are not currently recognised as having a negligible or controlled risk of classical scrapie. In addition, only a low proportion of the Scottish Blackface sheep

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