Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third-country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products or live bivalve molluscs
C 215/20 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 10. 7. 98 II (Preparatory Acts) COMMISSION Proposal for a Council Decision amending Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products and live bivalve molluscs (98/C 215/06) COM(1998) 360 final - 98/0200(CNS) (Submitted by the Commission on 9 June 1998) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to Council Decision 95/408/EC of 22 June 1995 on the conditions for drawing up, for an interim period, provisional lists of third country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products of animal origin, fishery products and live bivalve molluscsØ(˛), as amended by Decision 97/34/ECØ(ˇ), and in particular Article 9 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, Whereas the interim period opened by Decision 95/408/EC ends on 31 December 1998; whereas for administrative reasons, the drawing up of the lists of third country establishments from which Member States are authorised to import certain products in accordance with the Directives on health rules applicable to those products has been delayed; Whereas, in order to prevent any disruptions in traditional trade patterns, the interim period during which a simplified system may be applied for the approval of third country estabÜ lishments exporting certain products of animal origin, fishery products and live bivalve molluscs should be extended, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: In Article 9 of Decision 95/408/EC, "31 December 1998’ is replaced by "31 December 2000’. Article 1 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Article 2 (˛) OJ L 243, 11. 10. 1995, p. 17. (ˇ) OJ L 13, 16. 1. 1997, p. 33