Implementing Decision 2013/764/EU is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   the following Article 2a is inserted:

   ‘Article 2aDerogation for the dispatch of live pigs to other Member States in certain cases

   1.

   By way of derogation from Article 2(1), the Member States concerned may authorise the dispatch of live pigs from holdings located within the areas listed in the Annex to other Member States, provided that the overall classical swine fever situation in the areas listed in the Annex is favourable and the pigs in question were kept in holdings where:

   • no evidence of classical swine fever has been recorded in the previous 12 months in the holding in question and the holding is located outside a protection zone or a surveillance zone established in accordance with Directive 2001/89/EC;

   • the pigs have been resident for at least 90 days or since birth on the holding and no live pigs have been introduced into the holding during the 30-day period immediately prior to the date of dispatch;

   • the holding implements a bio-security plan approved by the competent authority;

   • the holding has been subjected regularly and at least every four months to inspections by the competent authority, which must:

     1. (i)
        follow the guidelines set out in Chapter III of the Annex to Commission Decision 2002/106/EC7;
     2. (ii)

        include a clinical examination in accordance with the checking and sampling procedures set out in Part A of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2002/106/EC;

     3. (iii)

        check the effective application of the measures provided for in the second indent and in the fourth to seventh indents of Article 15(2)(b) of Directive 2001/89/EC; and

   • the holding is subject to a classical swine fever surveillance plan implemented by the competent authority in accordance with the sampling procedures laid down in point F.2 of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2002/106/EC and laboratory testing with negative results within one month prior to movement.

   2.

   For live pigs that comply with the requirements of paragraph 1, the following additional wording shall be added to the corresponding health certificate for swine referred to in Article 5(1) of Council Directive 64/432/EEC8:

   ‘Pigs in compliance with Article 2a of Commission Implementing Decision 2013/764/EU’.

2. (2)

   Article 4 is amended as follows:

   1. (a)

      in point (a), the second indent is replaced by the following:

      1. ‘—

         the pigs have been resident for at least 90 days or since birth on the holding and no live pigs have been introduced into the holding, or separate production unit, during the 30-day period immediately prior to the date of dispatch to the slaughterhouse; this shall apply only to separate production units for which the official veterinarian has confirmed that the structure, size and distance between the production units and the operations carried out there are such that the production units provide completely separate facilities for housing, keeping and feeding, so that the virus cannot spread from one production unit to another;’;

   2. (b)

      in point (a), point (iii) of the fourth indent is replaced by the following:

      ‘(iii)meet at least one of the following conditions:

      1. 1.

         check the effective application of the measures provided for in the second indent and in the fourth to seventh indents of Article 15(2)(b) of Directive 2001/89/EC; or

      2. 2.

         in a 40 km radius surrounding the holding, surveillance in feral pigs is carried out regularly, and at least every four month, with negative results according to Part H of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2002/106/EC and all slaughtered pigs of the consignment have been tested with negative results for classical swine fever in accordance with the diagnostic procedures set out in Part C of Chapter VI of the Annex to Decision 2002/106/EC;’;

   3. (c)

      in point (a), the following seventh indent is added:

      1. ‘—
         the pigmeat, meat preparations and meat products coming from pig holdings complying with this point are accompanied by the appropriate intra-Union trade health certificate as laid down by Commission Regulation (EC) No 599/20049 of which Part II of the certificate shall be completed by the following sentence:

         ‘Product in accordance with Commission Implementing Decision 2013/764/EU of 13 December 2013 concerning animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in certain Member States.’

   4. (d)

      in point (b), the third indent is replaced by the following:

      1. ‘—

         are accompanied by the appropriate intra-Union trade health certificate as laid down by Regulation (EC) No 599/2004 of which Part II of the certificate shall be completed by the following sentence:

         ‘Product in accordance with Commission Implementing Decision 2013/764/EU of 13 December 2013 concerning animal health control measures relating to classical swine fever in certain Member States.’;’.

3. (3)

   in Article 10, the date ‘31 December 2017’ is replaced by the date ‘31 December 2019’.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.