The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export and Movement Restrictions) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 No. 518

PART 2 Movement and export: animals, meat and meat products

Export of meat: conditions applying to holdings

12.  A holding complying with this regulation–

(a) must be situated in the centre of a circle of at least 10 km radius in which there was no outbreak of disease during at least 30 days prior to the date of loading for transport to slaughter; and

(b) is one where no susceptible animal was introduced to the holding (“the first holding”) during the 21 days prior to the date of loading for transport to slaughter (except in the case of a pig, in which case the period of 21 days may be reduced to 7 days), unless–

(i) the animal–

(aa) complies with the condition in sub-paragraph (aa) of regulation 10(2)(c)(i) (if a cow, pig, sheep or goat), or of regulation 10(2)(c)(ii) (if farmed game); and

(bb) was under the supervision of the Scottish Ministers on a single holding complying with paragraph (a) during the 21 days prior to transport to the first holding (except in the case of a pig, in which case the 21 day period is reduced to 7 days);

(ii) the animal was subjected with negative results to a test for antibodies against disease virus carried out on a blood sample taken within 10 days prior to the date of transport to the holding; or

(iii) the animal comes from a holding that was subjected with negative results to a serological survey pursuant to a sampling protocol suitable to detect 5% prevalence of disease with at least a 95% level of confidence.