Council Directive of 26 June 1990 laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the porcine species (90/429/EEC)

CHAPTER II U.K. Intra-Community trade

Article 3 U.K.

Each Member State shall ensure that only semen, meeting the following general conditions, is intended for trade:

(a)

it must have been collected and processed, for the purpose of artifical insemination, in a collection centre approved from the point of view of animal health for the purposes of intra-Community trade in accordance with Article 5 (1);

(b)

it must have been collected from domestic animals of the porcine species whose health status complies with Annex B;

(c)

it must have been collected, processed, stored and transported in accordance with Annexes A and C.

Article 4 U.K.

1. Until 31 December 1992, Member States in which all collection centres contain only animals which have not been vaccinated against Aujeszky's disease giving a negative reaction to the serum neutralization test, or to the ELISA test for Aujeszky's disease, in accordance with the provisions of this Directive:

• may refuse admission to their territory of semen from collection centres which do not have that status,

• may not prohibit the admission of semen from boars which have been vaccinated in the collection centre with the GI deleted vaccine, provided that:

  • such vaccination has only been carried out on boars that were serum-negative with regard to the virus of Anjeszky's disease,

  • serological examinations carried out at the earliest three weeks after vaccination of such boars do not reveal the presence of antibodies induced by the disease virus.

    In this event a sample of semen from each daily collection intended for trade may be subjected to a virus isolation test in an approved laboratory in the Member State of destination.

    The provisions of this paragraph shall not come into effect until such time as the Commission, acting in accordance with Article 18, not later than 1 July 1991, has laid down the protocols for the tests to be used for these examinations following the opinion of the Scientific Veterinary Committee, in particular in connection with the frequency of the tests to be carried out in the centre, the virus isolation tests and the effectiveness and safety of the GI deleted vaccine.

2. In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18, it may be decided to extend the provisions of paragraph 1 to part of the territory of a Member State if all the collection centres in that part of the territory contain only animals giving a negative reaction to the serum neutralization test or the ELISA test for Aujeszky's disease.

3. The Council shall, before 31 December 1992, review this Article on the basis of a report from the Commission, accompanied by any proposals.

Article 5 U.K.

1. The Member State on whose territory the semen collection centre is situated shall ensure that the approval provided for in Article 3 (a) is granted only if it meets the conditions of Annex A and satisfies the other provisions of this Directive.

The Member State shall also ensure that the official veterinarian supervises the observance of those provisions. The official veterinarian shall propose that approval be withdrawn when one or more of the provisions is no longer observed.

[F1 2. All semen collection centres shall be registered, each centre being given a veterinary registration number.

Each Member State shall draw up and keep up to date a list of semen collection centres and their veterinary registration numbers and make it available to the other Member States and to the public.]

3. The general rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Council Directive 2008/73/EC of 15 July 2008 simplifying procedures of listing and publishing information in the veterinary and zootechnical fields and amending Directives 64/432/EEC, 77/504/EEC, 88/407/EEC, 88/661/EEC, 89/361/EEC, 89/556/EEC, 90/426/EEC, 90/427/EEC, 90/428/EEC, 90/429/EEC, 90/539/EEC, 91/68/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 92/35/EEC, 92/65/EEC, 92/66/EEC, 92/119/EEC, 94/28/EC, 2000/75/EC, Decision 2000/258/EC and Directives 2001/89/EC, 2002/60/EC and 2005/94/EC (Text with EEA relevance).

Article 6 U.K.

1. Member States shall ensure that each consignment of semen is accompanied by an animal health certificate drawn up in accordance with the specimen in Annex D by an official veterinarian of the Member State of collection.

This certificate must:

(a) be drawn up in at least one of the official languages of the Member State of collection and one of those of the Member State of destination;

(b) accompany the consignment to its destination in its original form;

(c) be drawn up on a single sheet of paper;

(d) be made out to a single consignee.

2. The Member State of destination may, in addition to measures provided for in Article 8 of Directive 90/425/EEC, take the necessary measures, including storage in quarantine, provided this does not affect the viability of the semen, in order to obtain definite proof in cases where semen is suspected of being infected or contamined by pathogenic organisms.