8.12.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 336/17 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1162/2012 of 7 December 2012 amending Decision 2007/777/EC and Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entries for Russia in the lists of third countries from which certain meat, meat products and eggs may be introduced into the Union (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (!), and in particular the introductory phrase of Article 8, the first subparagraph of point 1 of Article 8 and point 4 of Article 8 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Decision 2007/777[EC of 29 November 2007 laying down the animal and public health conditions and model certificates for imports of certain meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines for human consumption from third countries and repealing Decision 2005/432[EC (%) lays down rules on imports into the Union and the transit and storage in the Union of consignments of meat products and consignments of treated stomachs, bladders and intes- tines, as defined in 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 (3). (2)  Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777|[EC sets out the list of third countries or parts thereof from which the introduction into the Union of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines into the Union is auth- orised, provided that those commodities comply with the treatment referred to in that Part. Where third countries are regionalised for the purposes of inclusion in that list, their regionalised territories are set out in Part 1 of that Annex. (3)  Part 4 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777|[EC sets out the treatments referred to in Part 2 of that Annex, assigning a code to each of those treatments. That Part sets out a non-specific treatment ‘A’ and specific treatments ‘B’ to ‘F listed in descending order of severity. (4 Russia is currently listed in Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777[EC for introduction into the Union OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11. OJ L 312, 30.11.2007, p. 49. OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55. ) O] O] of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines from domestic bovine animals, farmed cloven-hoofed game, domestic ovine or caprine animals, domestic porcine animals and wild cloven- hoofed game which have undergone the specific treatment ‘C’. Russia is also authorised for imports of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines from domestic soliped animals which have undergone the specific treatment ‘B’ and of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines from domestic rabbit and farmed and wild leporidae and certain wild land mammalian game which have undergone a non-specific treatment ‘A’. In addition, Russia is listed in Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC as authorised for transit through the Union of meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines from poultry and farmed feathered game, excluding ratites, which have undergone a non-specific treatment ‘A’. However, export to the Union of the abovementioned commodities from Russia is currently not possible because no Russian establishments have been authorised and listed in the lists of approved establishments as provided for in Article 12 of 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 (*). Therefore, Russia is only allowed to transit those products through the Union territory as they comply with the animal health import conditions. Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (°) provides that certain commodities are only to be imported into and transit through the Union from the third countries, territories, zones or compartments listed in the table in Part 1 of Annex I thereto. It also lays down the veterinary certification requirements for such commodities. Russia is currently listed in Part 1 of Annex I to Regu- lation (EC) No 798/2008 for the import into the Union of egg products and for transit through the Union, under certain conditions, of poultry meat. L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 206. L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1.