Commission Implementing Decision of 10 February 2012 concerning preventive vaccination against low pathogenic avian influenza in mallard ducks in Portugal and certain measures restricting the movements of such poultry and their products (notified under document C(2012) 676) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/110/EU)

Article 1 U.K. Subject matter and scope

1. This Decision lays down certain measures to be applied in Portugal where preventive vaccination of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) intended for re-stocking supplies of game (‘mallard ducks’) is carried out in a holding, which is exposed to the risk of avian influenza.

Those measures include certain restrictions on the movement within and dispatch from Portugal of the vaccinated mallard ducks, their hatching eggs and mallard ducks derived thereof.

2. This Decision shall apply without prejudice to the protection measures to be taken by Portugal in accordance with Directive 2005/94/EC and Decision 2006/605/EC.