Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 866/2013 amending Regulation (EC) No. 798/2008 as regards transit of consignments of poultry meat from Belarus through Lithuania to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

Commission Regulation (EC) No. 798/2008 lays down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the European Community and sets forth related veterinary certification requirements. Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No. 798/2008 requires that specified pathogen-free eggs, meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products transiting through the Union shall be accompanied by a certificate drawn up in accordance with the model certificate set out in Annex XI and complying with the conditions set out in that certificate. The present Regulation stipulates that, by way of derogation from article 4(4), transit by road or rail shall be authorized between the border inspection posts in Lithuania listed in the Annex to Decision 2009/821/EC, of consignments of eggs, egg products and poultry meat coming from Belarus and bound for the Russian territory of Kaliningrad, subject to the prescribed conditions.