11.10.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 295/63 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION of 9 October 2014 concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in certain Member States and repealing Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU (notified under document C(2014) 7222) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/709/EU) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, 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 applic- able in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products with a view to the completion of the internal market (%), and in particular Article 10(4) thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (}), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Council Directive 2002/60/EC (%) lays down the minimum measures to be applied within the Union for the control of African swine fever, including the measures to be taken in the event of an outbreak of African swine fever on a pig holding and in cases where African swine fever is suspected or confirmed in feral pigs. Those measures include plans to be developed and implemented by Member States, and approved by the Commission, for the eradication of African swine fever from a feral pig population. (2) African swine fever is present in Sardinia, Italy since 1978, and has since 2014 been introduced in other Member States situated in Eastern Europe including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland from neighbouring third coun- tries where that disease is widely present. (3)  In order to focus the control measures and to prevent disease spread as well as any unnecessary disturbance to trade within the Union and to avoid unjustified barriers to trade by third countries, the concerned Member States urgently established infected areas and areas at risk for infection that were defined at Union level in collaboration with the Member States concerned by means of Commission Implementing Decisions that were consolidated by Commission Implementing Decision 2014/178/EU (). That Decision also lays down animal health control measures on the movement, dispatch of pigs and certain pig products and marking of pigmeat from the areas set out in the Annex to that Decision in order to prevent the spread of that disease to other areas of the Union. (4)  Commission Decision 2005/362/EC (°) approved a plan submitted by Italy to the Commission for the eradication of African swine fever in feral pigs in Sardinia and Commission Implementing Decision 2014/442/EU () approved the plans for the eradication of African swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of Lithuania and Poland. () OJL395,30.12.1989, p. 13. () OJL224,18.8.1990, p. 29. () OJL18,23.1.2003,p. 11. (*) Council Directive 2002/60/EC of 27 June 2002 laying down specific provisions for the control of African swine fever and amending Dir- ective 92/119/EEC as regards Teschen disease and African swine fever (O] L 192, 20.7.2002, p. 27). () Commission Implementing Decision 2014178 /EU of 27 March 2014 concerning animal health control measures relating to African swine fever in certain Member States (O] L 95, 29.3.2014, p. 47). () Commission Decision 2005/362/EC of 2 May 2005 approving the plan for the eradication of African swine fever in feral pigs in Sardinia, Italy (O] L 118, 5.5.2005, p. 37). () Commission Implementing Decision 2014/442[EU of 7 July 2014 approving the plans for the eradication of African swine fever in feral pigs in certain areas of Lithuania and Poland (OJ L 200, 9.7.2014, p. 21).