Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   The following paragraph is added to Article 1:

   ‘This Decision also lays down rules concerning the dispatch of consignments of day-old chicks from the concerned Member States.’

2. (2)

   The following Article 3a is inserted:

   ‘Article 3a

   1.

   The concerned Member States shall prohibit the dispatch of consignments of day-old chicks from the areas listed as protection and surveillance zones in the Annex to other Member States, except where the competent authority of the concerned Member State of dispatch authorises the direct transport of consignments of day-old chicks subject to compliance with the following conditions:

   (a)

   the day-old chicks must be hatched from hatching eggs originating from poultry kept on establishments approved in accordance with point (a)(i) of Article 6 of Council Directive 2009/158/EC8 (approved establishments) located outside the areas listed as protection and surveillance zones in Parts A and B in the Annex to this Decision;

   (b)

   the approved establishment of dispatch (the hatchery of dispatch) can ensure by its logistics and working conditions that no contact has occurred between the day-old chicks and hatching eggs referred to in point (a) and any other hatching eggs and day-old chicks originating from poultry kept in approved establishments located in areas listed as protection and surveillance zones in the Annex;

   (c)

   the hatchery of dispatch must be located outside the areas listed as protection zones in Part A in the Annex, but it may be located inside the areas listed as surveillance zones in Part B in the Annex.

   2.

   The concerned Member States shall prohibit the dispatch of consignments of day-old chicks originating from hatching eggs from poultry kept in approved establishments located in the protection and surveillance zones listed in the Annex, except where the competent authority of the concerned Member State of dispatch authorises the direct transport of hatching eggs from poultry kept in approved establishments located outside the protection zones, but inside the surveillance zones, to a designated hatchery located outside the protection and surveillance zones, and the competent authority ensures that the day-old chicks originating from such hatching eggs, when dispatched to other Member States comply with the following conditions:

   (a)

   the day-old chicks have hatched in a designated hatchery located outside the protection and surveillance zones listed in the Annex;

   (b)

   the day-old chicks originate from hatching eggs that were disinfected and their packaging was disinfected before being transported to the hatchery of dispatch and where the tracing of these hatching eggs can be ensured.

   3.

   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 referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article to be dispatched to other Member States include the words:

   ‘The consignment complies with the animal health conditions laid down in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247’.

3. (3)

   The Annex is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.