The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2208 of 31 October 2025 amending the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of certain regions of the United Kingdom (notified under document C(2025) 7264)
Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2025/2208 of 31 October 2025 amending the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC as regards the BSE status of certain regions of the United Kingdom (notified under document C(2025) 7264)
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 5(2), third subparagraph, thereof,
Whereas:
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 provides that Member States, or third countries or regions thereof (countries or regions) are to be classified according to their bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) status into one of three categories: negligible BSE risk, controlled BSE risk and undetermined BSE risk.
Article 5(2), third subparagraph, of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 provides that if the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) has placed an applicant country in one of the three BSE categories, a re-assessment of the BSE categorisation at Union level may be decided.
Commission Decision 2007/453/EC(2) lists the BSE status of countries or regions according to their BSE risk in Parts A, B or C of the Annex to that act. The countries or regions listed in Part A of that Annex are regarded as having a negligible BSE risk, those listed in Part B are regarded as having a controlled BSE risk, while Part C of that Annex provides that countries or regions not listed in Part A or B are to be regarded as having an undetermined BSE risk.
The United Kingdom with the exception of Northern Ireland currently fall within Part B of the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC as countries with a controlled BSE risk.
On 29 May 2025, the WOAH World Assembly of Delegates adopted Resolution No 17, ‘Recognition of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Risk Status of Members’ (3), which entered into force on 30 May 2025. This resolution recognised the zones of England and Wales, and Scotland in the United Kingdom as having a negligible BSE risk, in line with the criteria set out in the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code. After reassessment of the situation at Union level, stemming from WOAH Resolution No 17, the Commission has considered that the new WOAH BSE status of the zones of England and Wales, and Scotland in the United Kingdom should be reflected in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC.
The list of countries or regions in the Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended so that the zones of England and Wales, and Scotland in the United Kingdom are listed in Part A of that Annex under countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk.
The Annex to Decision 2007/453/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.
The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 31 October 2025.
For the Commission
Olivér Várhelyi
Member of the Commission
ANNEX
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’ ANNEX
LIST OF COUNTRIES OR REGIONS
A. Countries or regions with a negligible BSE risk
Member States
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czechia
Denmark
Germany
Estonia
Ireland
Spain
France
Croatia
Italy
Cyprus
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Hungary
Malta
Netherlands
Austria
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Slovenia
Slovakia
Finland
Sweden
Regions of Member States(1)
Northern Ireland
European Free Trade Association countries
Iceland
Liechtenstein
Norway
Switzerland
Third countries
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
India
Israel
Japan
Jersey
Namibia
New Zealand
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Serbia(2)
Singapore
England and Wales, and Scotland in the United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay
B. Countries or regions with a controlled BSE risk
Member States
Greece
Third countries
Mexico
Nicaragua
South Korea
Taiwan
C. Countries or regions with an undetermined BSE risk
Countries or regions not listed in Parts A or B.