9.3.2012 Official Journal of the European Union L 71/31 COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 200/2012 of 8 March 2012 concerning a Union target for the reduction of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium in flocks of broilers, as provided for in Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, 4)  Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 provides that experience gained under existing national measures and information forwarded to the Commission or to the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA') under existing Union require- Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European ments, in particular in the framework of information Union, provided for in Directive 2003/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents, amending Council Decision 90/424EEC and repealing Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the Council Directive 92/117[EEC (’), and in particular European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November Article 5 thereof, is to be taken into account when 2003 on the control of salmonella and other specified food- setting the Union target. borne zoonotic agents (') and, in particular the second subparagraph of Article 4(1), the second subparagraph of Article 8(1) and the second paragraph of Article 13 thereof; (5)  Article 1 paragraph 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 646/2007 of 12 June 2007 implementing Regulation Whereas: (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a Community target for the reduction of the prevalence of Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella typhimurium in broilers and repealing Regu- (1)  Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 aims to ensure that lation (EC) No 1091/2005 (*) sets the target for the appropriate and effective measures are taken to detect reduction of the maximum percentage of flocks of and control, amongst others, salmonella at all relevant broilers remaining positive for those two Salmonella stages and in particular at the level of primary serotypes to 1% or less by 31 December 2011. production, ie. in flocks, in order to reduce the prevalence of food-borne zoonotic pathogens and thus the risk they pose to public health. (6)  The European Union Summary Report on Trends and Sources of Zoonoses, Zoonotic Agents and Food-borne () Article 4 (5) of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 provides O‘gbrealfs n 2009 0) showed that fl“lm(’”ell“ enteritdis for Union targets to be established for the reduction of zfm Salmone ¢ ty}é i guL” are ltl ¢ serovars - most the prevalence of all Salmonella serotypes with public requznty associated wit jmaré ! nessa Humle{lndlcas?s health significance in broilers. That reduction is key to cause b}’_ Salmgnella entertfidls decreasec markedly In . o : 2009, while an increase in Salmonella typhimurium cases ensuring that the criteria for salmonella in fresh meat of b q broilers set out in Part E of Annex II to that Regulation was observed. and in Chapter 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs (2) can be met. (7). InJuly 2011, the EFSA adopted a Scientific Opinion on a Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 provides that the Union target is to include a numerical expression of the maximum  percentage of  epidemiological  units remaining positive andfor the minimum percentage of reduction in the number of epidemiological units remaining positive, the maximum time limit within which the target must be achieved and the definition of the testing schemes necessary to verify achievement of the target. It is also to include a definition, where relevant, of serotypes with public health significance. quantitative estimation of the public health impact of setting a new target for the reduction of Salmonella in broilers (°). It concluded that Salmonella enteritidis is the most  successfully transmitted zoonotic  Salmonella serotype from parent to offspring in poultry. EFSA also observed that Union control measures in broilers have contributed to a considerable reduction in the number of broiler-associated human salmonellosis cases compared to the situation in 2006. The target should therefore be confirmed. ) - (% O] L 151, 13.6.2007, p. 21. () O] L 325, 12.12.2003, p. 1. (%) EESA Journal 2011; 9(3):2090. () O] L 338, 22.12.2005, p. 1. ()