Commission Decision 2003/477/EC amending Decision 2002/251/EC to revoke the protective measures with regard to the fishery and aquaculture products imported from Thailand.

Article 2, paragraph 1 of Decision 2002/251/EC is replaced by the following: “Member States shall, using appropriate sampling plans and detection methods, subject each consignment of poultrymeat imported from Thailand, and each consignment of shrimps imported from Thailand and accompanied by a health certificate issued before the date of 21 September 2002, to a chemical test in order to ensure that the products concerned do not present a danger to human health. This test must be carried out, in particular, with a view to detecting the presence of antimicrobial substances and in particular nitrofurans and their metabolites.”