23.3.2010 Official Journal of the European Union L76/1 (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 21 5/2010 of 5 March 2010 amending Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 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 (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Directive 2009/158/EC of 30 Novem- ber 2009 on animal health conditions governing intra- Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs ('), and in particular Articles 23(1), 24(2) and 26(2) 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 (?), and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 8(1), Article 9(2)(b) and Article 9(4) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, terri- tories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification require- ments (3) provides that the commodities covered by it are only to be imported into and transited through the Union from the third countries, territories, zones or compart- ments listed in the table in Part 1 of Annex I thereto. It also lays down the veterinary certification requirements for such commodities and models of the veterinary certificates to accompany them are set out in Part 2 of that Annex. (1) OJ L 343,22.12.2009, p. 74. () OJL18,23.1.2003, p. 11. () OJ L 226, 23.8.2008, p. 1. (2)  According to Article 24(1)(b) of Directive 2009/158/EC, commodities are not to be imported into the Union from a third country, territory, zone or compartment where an outbreak of avian influenza or Newcastle disease has been detected and which may therefore no longer be certified as being free from one of those diseases, unless the compe- tent authority of the third country or territory applies mea- sures to control them which are at least equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 Decem- ber 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza and repealing Directive 92/40/EEC () and in Council Directive 92/66[EEC of 14 July 1992 introducing Community measures for the control of Newcastle disease (°). (3)  Part of the territory of Brazil and the territories of Canada, Chile, Croatia, Israel and the United States of America, as listed in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, are currently authorised for the importation into the Union of live poultry and ratites, hatching eggs of poultry and ratites and meat of poultry and ratites. (4)  Those six third countries apply control measures for New- castle disease equivalent to those implemented by Member States in accordance with Directive 92/66/EEC, including placing areas in their territory under official restrictions in the event of an outbreak of that disease. (5)  Asregards the importation of meat of poultry and ratites into the Union, the equivalency of disease control mea- sures for Newcastle disease applied in parts of Brazil and also in Israel has already been recognised by Commission Decision 2001/659/EC of 6 August 2001 amending (4 OJ L 10, 14.1.2006, p. 16. () OJ L 260, 5.9.1992, p. 1.