L 21036 Official Journal of the European Union 10.8.2007 II (Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory) DECISIONS COMMISSION COMMISSION DECISION of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and repealing Decision 2007/552/EC (notified under document number C(2007) 3901) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/554/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 89/662/EEC of 11 December 1989 concerning veterinary checks in intra- Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market (!), and in particular Article 9(4) thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June 1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market (3), and in particular Article 10(4) thereof, Whereas: (1) Outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease have been declared in the United Kingdom. (2)  The foot-and-mouth disease situation in the United Kingdom is liable to endanger the herds of other Member States in view of trade in live biungulate (") OJ L 395, 30.12.1989, p. 13. Directive as last amended by Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (O] L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 33; corrected version O] L 195, 2.6.2004, p. 12). (3 OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive 2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (O L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14). animals and the placing on the market of certain of their products. (3)  The United Kingdom has taken measures in the framework of Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC  and  Decisions  89/531/EEC  and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC (}), and has introduced further measures within the affected areas. (4)  The disease situation in the United Kingdom makes it necessary to reinforce the control measures for foot- and-mouth disease taken by the United Kingdom. (5)  Such as for Decision 2007/552/EC of 6 August 2007 on interim protection measures with regard to foot-and- mouth disease in the United Kingdom (%) it is now appropriate to define as a permanent measure the high and low risk areas in the affected Member States and to provide for a prohibition on the dispatch of susceptible animals from the high and low risk areas and on the dispatch of products derived from susceptible animals from the high risk area. The Decision should also provide for the rules applicable to the dispatch from those areas of safe products that either had been produced before the restrictions, from raw material sourced from outside the restricted areas or that had undergone a treatment proven effective in inactivating possible foot-and-mouth disease virus. () OJ L 306, 22.11.2003, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2006/104[EC (O] L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 352). (% OJ L 206, 7.8.2007, p. 10.