CHAPTER IIU.K.Provisions applicable to trade

Article 6U.K.

A.

Without prejudice to Article 14 and 15, Member States shall ensure that ungulates of species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC and 91/68/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements:

1.

in general they:

(a)

must be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC;

(b)

must not be intended for slaughter under a programme for the eradication of an infectious disease;

(c)

must not have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and must satisfy the relevant requirements of Directive 85/511/EEC and Article 4a of Directive 64/432/EEC;

(d)

must come from a holding referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) and (c) of Directive 64/432EEC which is not the subject of animal health measures, particularly those taken under Directives 85/511/EEC, 80/217/EEC(1) and 91/68/EEC and have been kept therein permanently since birth or for the last thirty days before dispatch;

(e)

[F1 [X1must be accompanied by a certificate corresponding to the specimen given in Annex E part 1, bearing the following declaration:

] ]

(f)

[F2. . . . .]

2.

in the case of ruminants:

(a)

they must come from an officially tuberculosis-free and officially brucellosis-free herd in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC or Directive 91/68/EEC and satisfy, as regards animal health rules, the relevant requirements laid down for the bovine species in Article 3 (2) (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Directive 64/432/EEC or Article 3 of Directive 91/68/EEC;

(b)

[F1 [X1where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions laid down in (a), they must come from a holding in which no case of brucellosis or tuberculosis has been recorded in the 42 days preceding loading of the animals and in which the ruminants have in the 30 days prior to dispatch undergone with negative results a test for brucellosis and tuberculosis;] ]

(c)

[F3 [F4in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, provisions may be adopted regarding leukosis;] ]

3.

in the case of suidae:

(a)

they must not have come from an area which is the subject of prohibition measures associated with the presence of African swine fever in accordance with Article 9a of Directive 64/432/EEC;

(b)

they must come from a holding which is not subject to any of the restrictions laid down in Directive 80/217/EEC as a result of classical swine fever;

(c)

they must come from a brucellosis-free holding in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC and satisfy the relevant animal health requirements laid down for swine in Directive 64/432/EEC;

(d)

where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions set out in (c), they must, in the 30 days prior to their dispatch, have undergone with negative results a test designed to show the absence of antibodies to brucellosis[F1 [X1;] ]

(e)

[F2. . . . .

(f)

. . . . .

(g)

. . . . .]

4.

[F5 [X1the testing requirements referred to in this Article and their criteria may be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26. These decisions shall take into consideration the case of ruminants reared in the arctic regions of the Community.

Pending the decisions provided for in the preceding subparagraph, national rules shall continue to apply.] ]

B.

Directive 64/432/EEC is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 2 (b) and (c), for ‘bovine animal(s)’ read ‘animal(s) of the bovine species (including Bubalus bubalus)’;

2.

the following Article is inserted:

‘Article 10a

Under the procedure laid down in Article 12, the health certificates, a specimen of which is reproduced in Annex F, may be amended or supplemented, in particular in order to take account of the requirements of Article 6 of Directive 92/65/EEC.’

Editorial Information

Textual Amendments

(1)

Council Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January 1980 introducing Community measures for the control of classical swine fever (OJ No L 47, 21.2.1980, p. 11). Last amended by Directive 87/486/EEC (OJ No L 280, 3.10.1987, p. 21).