28.1.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 25/69 COMMISSION DECISION of 27 January 2005 concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Bulgaria and repealing Decision 2004/908/EC (notified under document number C(2005) 145) (Text with EEA relevance) (2005/61/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675[/EEC ("), and in particular Article 18(7) thereof, Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December 1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (), and in particular Article 22(6) thereof, Whereas: (1) On 23 December 2004 Bulgaria confirmed an outbreak of Newcastle disease in the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria. In order to reduce the risk of introduction of the disease into the Community, Commission Decision 2004/908/EC of 23 December 2004 concerning protection measures in relation to Newcastle disease in Bulgaria (}) was adopted as an immediate measure to suspend imports of live poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game birds and hatching eggs of these species from Bulgaria. (2)  Bulgaria has communicated further information on the disease situation and requested regionalisation to allow lifting of the suspension for the country other than the administrative district of Kardzhali, since the situation in the rest of the country appears to be satisfactory. (") OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by the 2003 Act of Accession. (®» OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 165, 30.4.2004, p. 1; corrected in OJ L 191, 28.5.2004, p. 1). () OJ L 381, 28.12.2004, p. 82. (3)  Therefore the measures adopted by the Commission in relation to the outbreak of Newcastle disease in Bulgaria should be amended accordingly and Decision 2004/908EC should be repealed and replaced by this Decision. (4 The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of live poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game and hatching eggs of these species. Article 2 Member States shall suspend imports from the administrative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria of: (a) fresh meat of poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game; and (b) meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or containing meat of the species referred to in point (a). Article 3 1. By way of derogation from Article 2(a) and (b), Member States shall authorise imports of the products covered that Article which have been obtained from poultry, ratites, farmed and wild feathered game coming from the adminis- trative district of Kardzhali in Bulgaria and which were slaughtered or killed before 16 November 2004.