S.I. No. 515/2002 - Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports From Germany) (No. 2) (Third Amendment) Order 2002

I, Joe Walsh, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 30 of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (No. 6 of 1966) (as adapted by the Agriculture, Food and Rural Development (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 306 of 2002 )), for the purpose of giving effect to Commission Decision 2002/790/EC of 10 October 2002¹ (to the extent that the Commission Decision relates to Germany), hereby order as follows -

1.         This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports from Germany) (No. 2) (Third Amendment) Order 2002.

2.         The Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports from Germany) (No. 2) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 287 of 2002 ) is amended, in Article 2, by the substitution for the definition of “restricted area” (inserted by the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Classical Swine Fever (Restriction on Imports from Germany) (No. 2) (Second Amendment) Order 2002 ( S.I. No. 421 of 2002 )), of -

 “‘restricted area’ means —

(a)        that part of Rhineland-Palatinate that does not lie eastwards of the river Rhine,

(b)        in the Kreise Merzig-Wadern, Mettlach, Merzig Beckingen, Losheim, Weiskirchen and Wadern all in Saarland,

(c)        in the Kreise Saarlouis, Dillingen, Bous Ensdorf, Schwalbach, Saarwellingen, Nalbach Lebach, Schmelz and Saarlouis, all in Saarland,

(d)        in the Kreise Sankt Wendel, Nonnweiler Nohfelden and Tholey, all in Saarland,

(e)        Stadt Aachen, Monschau, Stollberg, Simmerath und Roetgen in Kreis Aachen, all in North Rhine-Westfalia,

(f)         in Kreise Dueren, Heimbach, Nideggen Huertgenwald und Langerwehe, all in North Rhine-Westfalia,

(g)        in the Kreise Euskirchen, Dahlem, Blankenheim Bad Muenstereifel, Schleiden, Euskirchen Hellenthal, Kall, Nettersheim, Mechernich and Zeulpich, all in North Rhine-Westfalia, and

(h)        in the Kreis Rhein-Sieg, Rheinbach, Swisttal and Mechenheim, all in North Rhine-Westfalia.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation)

This Order amends control measures relating to certain products of German origin due to the outbreak of classical swine fever in that country.

¹ O.J. No. L 274 of 11.10.2002, p. 38