Article 1 U.K.

Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 3 is amended as follows:

(a)

paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

‘2. the pigs have been subjected to a pathogen identification test for African swine fever, carried out with negative results on samples taken in accordance with the sampling procedures as laid down in the plan for the eradication of African swine fever referred to in the second paragraph of Article 1 of this Decision within a period of 7 days prior to the date of the movement and a clinical examination for African swine fever has been carried out on each consignment of pigs by an official veterinarian in accordance with the checking and sampling procedures laid down in Part A of Chapter IV of the Annex to Commission Decision 2003/422/EC(1) within the 24-hour period prior to the movement of the pigs, or’;

(b)

paragraph 3 is amended as follows:

(i)

point (a)(ii) is replaced by the following:

‘(ii) included a clinical examination of the pigs in the holding in accordance with the checking and sampling procedures laid down in Part A of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC;’;

(ii)

point (b) is replaced by the following:

‘(b) that implements bio-security requirements for African swine fever as established by the competent authority and ensures that at least the first two dead pigs over the age of 60 days in each production unit each week have been subjected to a pathogen identification test for African swine fever that complies with the general procedures and criteria for the collection and transport of samples laid down in Chapter V of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC,’;

(c)

in paragraph 4, points (a) and (b) are replaced by the following:

‘(a)

the pigs comply with any other appropriate animal health guarantees based on a positive outcome of a risk assessment of measures against the spread of African swine fever required by the competent authority of the Member State of the place of origin, and approved by the competent authorities of the Member States of the places of transit and of destination, prior to the movement of the pigs; however, the approval by the competent authorities of the Member States of the places of transit and of destination shall not be required when the places of origin, transit and destination of the pigs are all listed areas in the Annex and are continuous, thereby ensuring that the pigs are only moved through areas listed in the Annex;

(b)

the Member State of the place of origin immediately informs the Commission and the other Member States of the animal health guarantees and of the approval by the competent authorities referred to in the point (a), and authorises a list of holdings that comply with those animal health guarantees; however, that information from the Member State of origin shall not be required when the places of origin, transit and destination of the pigs are all listed areas in the Annex and are continuous, thereby ensuring that the pigs are only moved through areas that are listed in the Annex;’

(2)

Article 8(2) is amended as follows:

(a)

points (b) and (c) are replaced by the following:

‘(b)

they come from a holding which implements bio-security requirements for African swine fever as established by the competent authority and ensures that at least the first two dead pigs over the age of 60 days in each production unit each week have been subjected to a pathogen identification test for African swine fever that complies with the general procedures and criteria for the collection and transport of samples laid down in Chapter V of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC;

(c)

they have been subjected to a pathogen identification test for African swine fever carried out with negative results on samples taken in accordance with the sampling procedures as laid down in the plan for the eradication of African swine fever referred to in the second paragraph of Article 1 of this Decision within a period of 7 days prior to the date of the movement and a clinical examination for African swine fever has been carried out on each consignment of live pigs by an official veterinarian in accordance with the checking and sampling procedures laid down in Part A of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC within the 24-hour period prior to the movement of the live pigs; or’

(b)

in point (d), (ii) and (iii) are replaced by the following:

(ii)

included a clinical examination of the pigs in the holding in accordance with the checking and sampling procedures laid down in Part A of Chapter IV of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC;

(iii)

checked 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 2002/60/EC.’

(3)

In Article 21, the date ‘31 December 2019’ is replaced by ‘21 April 2021’.

(1)

Commission Decision 2003/422/EC of 26 May 2003 approving an African swine fever diagnostic manual (OJ L 143, 11.6.2003, p. 35)’;