The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Dispatch of live animals

5.—(1) No person shall dispatch any live animal of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate.

(2) By way of derogation from the preceding paragraph, the National Assembly or the Secretary of State may by licence in writing authorise the dispatch of biungulate animals originating outside the restricted area if the animals travelled through that area in direct and uninterrupted transit on main roads or by rail or sea.

(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of Council Directive 64/432/EEC (on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine(1)), Council Decision 98/256/EC (concerning emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy(2)) and the restriction on movement imposed under the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983, the prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to the dispatch of live porcine animals under the following conditions—

(a) the animals belong to a species specified in the appropriate column in Schedule 2;

(b) the animals must have been reared within and are dispatached from the areas specified in the appropriate column in Schedule 2;

(c) the dispatch has been authorised in writing by the National Assembly or the Secretary of State;

(d) there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the administrative unit or units in which the animal has been raised during the 90 days prior to dispatch;

(e) during the 30 days prior to dispatch the animals must be subject to the supervision of the relevant veterinary authority on a single holding that is situated within the administrative units listed in Schedule 2 and that is the centre of a circle of at least 10 kilometres radius (which circle may include land outside the relevant administrative unit) where there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease during at least the previous 30 days;

(f) no animal of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease has been introduced into the holding during the past 30 days prior to loading, except in the case of animals coming from a supplying holding which meets the requirements laid down in sub-paragraph (e), in which case the period shall be 7 days;

(g) during transport the animals must not come into contact with animals not from the same holding of dispatch, unless all the animals are consigned for direct slaughter and pure-bred pigs, in which case they may be collected during the journey from not more than three holdings which meet the requirements of sub-paragraph (e);

(h) animals for breeding or production must not be consigned to more than three holdings of destination, which must all be in the same Member State (except in the case of pure-bred breeding pigs which have been collected from more than one holding, which may be consigned to a single holding of destination only);

(i) animals must be transported in means of transport that have been cleansed and disinfected before loading or collecting for dispatch;

(j) the health certificates provided for in Council Directive 64/432/EEC accompanying the animals shall bear the following words—

“Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2001/740/EC of 19th October 2001 concerning certain protective measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.

(4) Movement of animals between holdings which are in the same occupancy and which have been granted a sole occupancy licence under article 31 of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease Order 1983 shall be disregarded for the purposes of establishing when animals were last moved on to a holding.

(1)

OJ No. L77, 21.05.1964, p. 1205 as consolidated in Council Directive 97/12/EC (OJ No. L 109, 25.04.97, p. 1 and as last amended by Council Directive 98/99/EC (OJ No. L358, 31.12.1998, p. 107).

(2)

OJ No. L 113, 15.04.1998, p. 32.