european commission document sanco 10011 2007 rev.7 draft commission regulation laying down a list of third countries territories zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the community and the veterinary certification requirements this proposal aims primarily to facilitate trade by simplifying existing legislation by repealing the following 5 acts . 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 oj l 137 8 june 1993 p. 24- 30 . 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 and amending decision 93 342 eec oj l 181 15 july 1994 p. 35- 39 . commission decision 2006 696 ec of 28 august 2006 laying down a list of third countries from which poultry hatching eggs day-old chicks meat of poultry ratites and wild game-birds eggs and egg products and specified pathogen-free eggs may be imported into and transit through the community and the applicable veterinary certification conditions and amending decisions 93 342 eec 2000 585 ec and 2003 812 ec oj l 295 25 october 2006 p. 1- 76 . commission regulation ec no 1237 2007 of 23 october 2007 amending regulation ec no 2160 2003 of the european parliament and of the council and decision 2006 696 ec as regards the placing on the market of eggs from salmonella infected flocks of laying hens oj l 280 24 october 2007 p. 5- 9 . notified in n g sps n eec 309 dated 6 june 2007 . draft commission decision concerning approval of salmonella control programmes in breeding flocks of gallus gallus in certain third countries in accordance with regulation ec no 2160 2003 and amending decision 2006 696 ec as regards certain public health requirements at import of poultry and hatching eggs notified in g sps n eec 306 dated 8 may 2007 and still not adopted. note this commission decision will be applicable until the proposal notified hereby see para. 5 above enters into force. the proposed regulation lays down veterinary certification requirements for imports into and transit including storage during transit through the community of the commodities indicated in para. 3 and lays down a list of third countries territories zones or compartments from which the commodities may be imported into the community. it also sets rules for certification for the freedom from low pathogenic avian influenza in addition to the freedom from highly pathogenic avian influenza this includes the submission to the european commission of the avian influenza surveillance program and of the vaccination plan against avian influenza if the affected commodities will be imported into the ec territory.