25.10.2006 Official Journal of the European Union L 295/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 28 August 2006 laying down a list of third countries from which poultry, hatching eggs, day-old chicks, meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products and specified pathogen-free eggs may be imported into and transit through the Community and the applicable veterinary certification conditions, and amending Decisions 93/342/EEC, 2000/585/EC and 2003/812/EC (notified under document number C (2006) 3821) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/696/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 Octo- ber 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra- Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs (), and in particular Articles 21(1) and 22(3), Article 23, Article 24(2) and Articles 26 and 27a thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veteri- nary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (%) and in particular Article 10 and Article 18 thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 92/118/EEC of 17 Decem- ber 1992 laying down animal health and public health require- ments governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A (1) to Directive 89/662[EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/425/[EEC (%), and in particular Article 10(2) and the first sub- paragraph of Article 10(3)(a) thereof and the first indent of Chap- ter 2 of Annex II thereto, (") OJ L 303, 31.10.1990, p. 6. Directive as last amended by the 2003 Act of Accession. () OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by the 2003 Act of Accession. (*) OJL 62,15.3.1993, p. 49. Directive as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 445/2004 (O] L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 60). Having regard to Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996 on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC (¥, and in particular the fourth subparagraph of Article 29(1), thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 Decem- ber 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (), and in particular Article 22(1) thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 Decem- ber 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the pro- duction, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (), in particular Article 8 and Article 9(2) and (4) thereof, Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (7), and in par- ticular Article 9 thereof, (*) OJ L 125,23.5.1996, p. 10. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 8822004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1. (corrected by OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1). (°) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004. () OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11. (7) OJL 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. (corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004, p. 22) Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005 (O] L 3338, 22.12.2005, p. 83.