Commission Implementing Decision of 12 February 2014 amending Implementing Decision 2013/426/EU on measures to prevent the introduction into the Union of the African swine fever virus from certain third countries or parts of the territory of third countries in which the presence of that disease is confirmed and repealing Decision 2011/78/EU (notified under document C(2014) 715) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/84/EU)

Article 1

Implementing Decision 2013/426/EU is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 1 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 1

For the purposes of this Decision, “livestock vehicle” means any vehicle which has been used for the transport of live animals.’

(2)

Article 2(1) is replaced by the following:

‘1. Member States shall ensure that the operator or driver of a livestock vehicle on arrival from the third countries or from the parts of the territory of third countries listed in Annex I provides to the competent authority of the Member State at the point of entry in the Union information showing that the livestock or loading compartment, where applicable the truck body, the loading ramp, the equipment having been in contact with animals, the wheels and the driver’s cabin and protective clothes/boots used during unloading have been cleansed and disinfected after the last unloading of animals.’

(3)

Article 3 is amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

‘3. Where the checks referred to in paragraph 1 show that cleansing and disinfection of the livestock vehicle have not been satisfactorily carried out, the competent authority shall take one of the following measures:

(a) subject the livestock vehicle to proper cleansing and disinfection at a place designated by the competent authority, as close as possible to the point of entry into the Member State concerned and issue the certificate referred to in paragraph 2;

(b) where there is no suitable facility for the cleansing and disinfection in the vicinity of the point of entry or there is a risk that residual animal products may escape from the uncleansed livestock vehicle:

(i)

refuse the entry into the Union of the livestock vehicle, or

(ii)

perform a preliminary on-the-spot disinfection of the livestock vehicle not satisfactorily cleansed and disinfected pending the application of the measures provided for in point (a) within a period of 48 hours from arrival at the EU border.’

(b)

the following paragraph 5 is added:

‘5. The competent authority of the Member State of the point of entry into the Union may subject any vehicle, including those transporting feed, for which a significant risk of introduction of African swine fever into the territory of the Union cannot be excluded to on-the–spot disinfection of the wheels or any other part of the vehicle deemed necessary to mitigate that risk.’

(4)

The following Article 4a is inserted after Article 4:

‘Article 4a

This Decision shall apply until 31 December 2015’

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 12 February 2014.

For the Commission

Tonio Borg

Member of the Commission