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(1) Annex V to the Agreement between the European Community and the United States of America on sanitary measures to protect public and animal health in trade in live animals and animal products (4) provided for, inter alia, the sanitary measures for fish and fishery products and certain other animal products traded with the United States for which equivalence has been established.

(2) Commission Decision 2006/199/EC (5) laid down the specific conditions for imports of fishery products from the United States into the Union and the model health certificate to accompany each consignment of fishery products imported into the Union.

(3) Article 118(1) read in combination with Article 107(2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 of the European Parliament and of the Council (6) establishes that operators in third countries are not to use antimicrobial medicinal products in animals to promote growth or increase yield. From Article 118(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 it follows that also medicinal products containing antimicrobials that are included in the list of antimicrobials reserved for the treatment of certain infections in humans laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/1255 (7) are not to be used in respect of animals or products of animal origin exported from third countries to the Union.

(4) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 (8) supplements Regulation (EU) 2019/6 by establishing conditions for the entry into the Union of consignments of live food-producing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption, exported from third countries to the Union.

(5) Article 4 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/905 requires among others that consignments of live food-producing animals and products of animal origin intended for human consumption are to only enter the Union where they are accompanied by an official certificate attesting compliance with the Union rules laid down in Article 3 of the same delegated Regulation.

(6) An attestation concerning compliance with these Union rules should therefore be inserted in the model certificate set out in Annex I to Decision 2006/199/EC.

(7) Animal health attestations included in the model official certificate established in Decision 2006/199/EC must be updated to take account of the requirements for entry into the Union of the same products provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/429 and its supplementing Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 (9).

(8) In the interests of clarity and consistency of Union rules, the animal health attestations included in the model official certificate set out in Annex I to Decision 2006/199/EC should be updated, including references, notes and structural elements, and Annex I to that Decision should therefore be replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision.

(9) Decision 2006/199/EC should therefore be amended accordingly.

(10) In order to avoid any disruption to trade as regards the entry into the Union of consignments of fishery products from the United States due to the amendments made to Annex I to Decision 2006/199/EC by this Decision, the use of health certificates issued in accordance with Decision 2006/199/EC as applicable prior to the amendments made by this Decision, should continue to be authorised during a transitional period, subject to certain conditions.

(11) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,