The Committee discussed Korea's Special Act on Imported Food Safety Management and its subordinate legislation under preparation, the quantity of sample collection for testing on high value products, the progress of the import approval procedure on EU beef, the EU's request to apply regionalisation principles and to lift the import bans on pork from Poland and poultry and poultry products from certain EU Member States, the “born and raised” clause in the bilateral sanitary protocols between EU Member States and Korea and the EU exports of non-pasteurized cheese to Korea, Korean exports of chicken-ginseng soup and live olive flounder to t ...[+++]he EU and EU Member States' standards for iodine content in seaweeds.

Commission Decision 93/342/EEC of 12 May 1993 laying down the criteria for classifying third countries with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of live poultry and hatching eggs (10) and Commission Decision 94/438/EC of 7 June 1994 laying down the criteria for classifying third countries and parts thereof with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of fresh poultrymeat (11) lay down criteria for classifying third countries with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of live poultry, hatching eggs and poultrymeat.

Those Decisions provided that imports into the Community from the concerned countries of live poultry, other live birds, poultry meat and certain other products of poultry origin, meat and meat products of wild and farmed game birds, game trophies of birds, eggs and egg products thereof were banned, subject to limited exceptions.

That Decision, which has been amended several times to take account of the evolution of the disease, namely the westward spread of the disease, provided that imports into the Community from those third countires of poultry meat, live poultry, other live birds and certain other products of poultry origin were suspended, subject to limited exceptions.

The Commission can require the presentation of import licences for products from certain sectors: cereals, rice, sugar, seed, olive oil and table olives, flax and hemp, bananas, wine, live plants, beef and veal, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat, poultry, milk and milk products, eggs and agricultural ethyl alcohol.

amending Decisions 95/233/EC, 96/482/EC, and 2001/751/EC relating to the importation of live poultry and hatching eggs and live ratites and hatching eggs; Decisions 94/85/EC, 94/984/EC, and 2000/609/EC relating to the importation of fresh poultrymeat, fresh farmed ratite meat, wild and farmed feathered game meat; Decision 2000/585/EC relating to the importation of wild and farmed game and rabbit meat and Decision 97/222/EC relating to the importation of meat products, with respect to certain Acceding States