Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247 is amended as follows:
the following paragraphs replace the second paragraph of Article 1:
‘This Decision also establishes at Union level the further restricted zones to be established in the concerned Member States, as referred to in Article 16(4) of Directive 2005/94/EC, following an outbreak or outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, and the duration of the measures to be applied in those further restricted zones.
This Decision lays down rules concerning the dispatch of consignments of live poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs from the concerned Member States.’;
in Article 3a, paragraph 3 is deleted;
the following Articles 3b, 3c and 3d are inserted after Article 3a:
The concerned Member States shall ensure that:
the further restricted zones established by their competent authorities, as referred to in Article 16(4) of Directive 2005/94/EC, comprise at least the areas listed as further restricted zones in Part C of the Annex to this Decision;
the measures to be applied in the further restricted zones, as referred to in Article 32 of Directive 2005/94/EC, are maintained until at least the dates for the further restricted zones set out in Part C of the Annex to this Decision.
1.The concerned Member States shall prohibit the dispatch of consignments of live poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs from the areas listed as further restricted zones in Part C of the Annex to other Member States, except where the competent authority of the concerned Member State of dispatch authorises, subject to the following conditions, the direct transport of consignments of the following commodities:
(a)day-old chicks that comply with the conditions laid down in of Article 3a(1)(a) and (b);
(b)hatching eggs that comply with the following conditions:
they originate from poultry kept on approved establishments located outside the areas listed as protection and surveillance zones in Parts A and B of the Annex;
where a clinical visit of the poultry in all the production units of the approved establishments during the 72 hours preceding the dispatch of the consignment has given a favourable result;
the hatching eggs, as well as their packaging, have been disinfected before dispatch in accordance with the instructions of the official veterinarian.
2.The transport of the consignments of day-old chicks and hatching eggs referred to in paragraph (1) shall be carried out without undue delay in vehicles, containers, boxes, as appropriate, that have been cleaned and disinfected according to the instructions of the official veterinarian.
The concerned Member State shall ensure that the veterinary certificates provided for Article 20 of Directive 2009/158/EC, and set out in Annex IV thereto, accompanying the consignments of day-old chicks and hatching eggs referred to in Articles 3a and 3c of this Decision to be dispatched to other Member States include the following sentence:
‘The consignment complies with the animal health conditions laid down in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247.’’.’
in Article 5, the date ‘31 December 2017’ is replaced by the date ‘31 May 2018’;
the Annex to Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.