Proposal for a Council Decision on the position to be taken within the Joint Veterinary Committee set up by the Agreement between the European Community and Switzerland on trade in agricultural products

The Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on trade in agricultural products entered into force on 1 June 2002.

Switzerland has benefited from several successive temporary periods during which it was allowed to derogate from the Trichinella examination of carcasses and meat of domestic swine kept for fattening and slaughter in low-capacity slaughter establishments.

No case of Trichinella has been found in Switzerland for more than fifty years. Moreover, Switzerland has a functioning detection programme and has undertaken that meat of domestic swine placed on the European Union market has always been subject to Trichinella examination of the carcasses and the meat.

The temporary status of the derogation can therefore be ended. Appendix 6 of Annex 11 to the Agreement should therefore be amended.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)641: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:641:FIN

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