Directive 97/78/EC is hereby amended as follows:
Article 1 is replaced by the following:
‘Veterinary checks on products from third countries introduced into one of the territories listed in Annex I shall be carried out by Member States in accordance with this Directive and with Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (^{2}).
Article 2(2)(a) is replaced by the following:
‘(a) “products” means the products of animal origin referred to in Directives 89/662/EEC and 90/425/EEC, in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (^{3}), in Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16 December 2002 laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (^{4}) and in Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (^{5}); it also includes the plant products referred to in Article 19.
In Article 7(3), ‘inspection fees referred to in Council Directive 85/73/EEC of 29 January 1985 on the financing of veterinary inspections and controls covered by Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC (amended and consolidated)’ is replaced by the following:
‘inspection fees referred to in Regulation (EC) No 882/2004’
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In Article 10(1)(b), the following phrase is deleted: ‘or, in the case of establishments approved in accordance with 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, from an establishment which has undergone either a Community or a national inspection.’
Article 12(9) is deleted.
Article 15(5) is deleted.
In Article 16, the following paragraph is inserted:
‘4. Detailed rules for the introduction of products of animal origin for the supply of the crew and passengers of international means of transport, and for products of animal origin ordered remotely (for example, by mail, by telephone or via the internet) and delivered to the consumer, shall be laid down in accordance with Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004.’
Article 21 is deleted.
Article 23 is deleted.
In Article 24(1), second indent, ‘in accordance with Article 17(2)(a) and (b)’ is replaced by ‘in accordance with Article 17’.