2.3.92 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 5§7/1 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COUNCIL COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/5/EEC of 10 February 1992 amending and updating Directive 77/99/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community . trad¢ in meat products and amending Directive 64/433/EEC THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof, Having regard to the proposals from the Commission (1), Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2), Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3), Whereas meat from bovine animals, swine, sheep and goats and domestic solipeds, poultrymeat, game meat and treated products derived from such meat are included in the list of products in Anrex II to the Treaty; whereas production of and trade in these products constitute an important source of income for part of the farming population; Whereas, in order to ensure the rational development of this sector and to increase productivity, public health rules governing production and placing on the market must be laid down at Community level; (1) OJ No C 84, 2. 4. 1990, p. 89, OJ No C 327, 30. 12. 1989, p. 25, O] No C 262, 14. 10. 1981, p.3, O] No C 267, 11. 10. 1982, p. 59, O] No C 296, 5. 11. 1991, p. 8. (2) O] No C 240, 16. 9. 1991, p. 6, O] No C 113, 7. 5. 1990, p. 205. - () OJ No C 332, 31. 12. 1990, p. 94, O] No C 62, 2. 3. 1990, p. 25, O] No C168, 10. 7. 1990, p.8, O] No C 124, 21.5.1990, p. 15. ' Wheréas the Community has to adopt measures for the progressive establishment of the internal market over a period expiring on 31 December 1992; Whereas Directive 77/99/EEC () laid down the health requirements to be complied with in intra-Community trade in meat products; Whereas Directive 89/662/EEC (°) laid down rules on the checks to be applied with a view to the completion of the internal market, and in particular abolished veterinary checks at frontiers between Member States; Whereas to take account of the abolition of the said checks and of the introduction of more stringent guarantees at origin when it is no longer possible to distinguish between products - for the domestic market and products to be marketed in another Member State, the requirements of Directive 77/99/EEC should be adapted and extended to all production; Whereas the object of this adaptation must be in particular to standardize health requirements for the production, storage and transport of meat products and other products of animal origin intended for human consumption; () OJ No L 26, 31. 1. 1977, p. 85. Directive as last amended by Directive 85/328/EEC (O] No L 168, 28. 6. 1985, p. 28). (°) OJ No L 395, 30. 12. 1989, p. 13. Directive as amended by Directive 90/675/EEC (O] No L 373, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1).