92/245/EEC: Commission Decision of 14 April 1992 concerning the animal health conditions and veterinary certification for the importation of meat products from Tunisia and amending Council Decision 79/542/EEC and Commission Decision 91/449/EEC

1 Member States shall authorize the importation from Tunisia of meat products which have undergone: either a treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of three or more, or a heat treatment so that a centre temperature of at least 80 o C has been achieved.

2 Member States shall not authorize the importation from Tunisia of meat products other than those referred to in paragraph 1.

1 Decision 79/542/EEC is amended as follows: (a) in the Annex under the column headed ‘special remarks’ concerning meat products, the figure ‘(4)’ is inserted in the line corresponding to Tunisia after the figure (3); (b) at the end of the list of countries under the footnote heading ‘Special remarks’, the following last sentence is added: ‘(4) Notwithstanding any restrictions indicated in the above list, meat products which have undergone a heat treatment so that a centre temperature of at least 80 oC has been achieved are authorized.’

2 In Part II of Annex C to Decision 91/449/EEC the list of countries approved to use the model animal health certificate is hereby amended by the insertion of the following country: ‘Tunisia’.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.