L 328/70 Official Journal of the European Union 15.12.2009 COMMISSION DECISION of 14 December 2009 amending Annexes I and II to Decision 2006/766/EC establishing the lists of third countries and territories from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates, marine gastropods and fishery products are permitted (notified under document C(2009) 9870) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/951/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption ('), and in particular Article 11(1) thereof, Whereas: Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 provides that products of animal origin are only to be imported from a third country or part of a third country that appears on a list drawn up in accordance with that Regulation. It also lays down special conditions for the import of bivalve molluscs, tunicates, echinoderms and marine gastropods and of fishery products from third countries. Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 provides that when drawing up and updating such lists, account is to be taken of Union controls in third countries and guarantees by the competent authorities of third countries as regards compliance or equivalence with the Union feed and food law and animal health rules as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (2). Commission Decision 2006/766/EC of 6 November 2006 establishing the lists of third countries and terri- tories from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echi- noderms, tunicates, marine gastropods and fishery products are permitted () lists those third countries which satisfy the criteria referred to in Article 11(4) of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 and are therefore able to 139, 30.4.2004, p. 206. oJ L 0] L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1. oL 320, 18.11.2006, p. 53. () ) guarantee that those products exported to the European Union meet the sanitary conditions laid down in Union legislation to protect the health of consumers. Accordingly, Annex I to that Decision sets out a list of third countries from which imports of bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods in any form for human consumption are permitted, while Annex II thereto sets out a list of third countries and territories from which imports of fishery products for human consumption in any form are permitted. Commission Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down transitional arrangements for the implementation of Regulations (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (* lays down transitional measures for a period ending on 31 December 2009. Those measures include a dero- gation from Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004, whereby Member States may authorise the import of bivalve molluscs and fishery products from the countries listed respectively in Annexes I and II thereto provided that, inter alia, the competent authority of the third country or territory has provided to the Member State concerned the guarantees that the products in question have been obtained in conditions at least equivalent to those governing the production and placing on the market of Union products. Canada is currently included in the list in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005. Union controls in Canada to evaluate the control system in place governing the production of bivalve molluscs intended for export to the European Union, the last of which took place in 2009, together with the recommendation of the Joint Management Committee established by the Agreement between the European Community and the Government of Canada on sanitary measures to protect public and animal health in respect of trade in live animals and animal products (°) of 17 December 1998, concerning the reciprocal equivalence between Canadian and Union standards for live bivalve molluscs, indicate that the conditions applicable in Canada to bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods destined to the European Union are equivalent to those provided for in the relevant Union legislation. 338, 22.12.2005, p. 83. 0J L 0J L 71, 18.3.1999, p. 3.