CHAPTER II

Provisions applicable to trade
Article 7
1. Member States shall ensure that birds other than those referred to in Directive 90/539/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements:
  1. in general they must:
    1. come from a holding in which avian influenza has not been diagnosed in the 30 days preceeding the dispatch;
    2. come from a holding or an area not subject to restrictions under measures to be applied to combat Newcastle disease.
Pending the implementation of the Community measures referred to in Article 19 of Directive 90/539/EEC, national requirements for combating Newcastle disease shall continue to apply, in compliance with the general provisions of the Treaty;
    3. have, in accordance with the third indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 91/496/EEC, been quarantined, if they have been imported from a third country, in the holding to which they were taken after they entered the territory of the Community;
  2. in addition, psittacidae must:
    1. not come from a holding nor have been in contact with animals from a holding on which psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci) has been diagnosed.
The period of prohibition since the last recorded case and the period of treatment under veterinary supervision recognized under the procedure provided for in Article 26 must be at least two months;
    2. be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC.
The methods for identifying psittacidae, and in particular sick psittacidae, shall be established under the procedure provided for in Article 26;
    3. be accompanied by a commercial document signed by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding or business of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority.
2. In the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 91/495/EEC of 27 November 1990 concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat , the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae)’ shall be inserted in the third line after the words ‘Directive 90/539/EEC’.
In point 1 of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from, third countries of poultry and hatching eggs , the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae)’ shall be inserted after the words ‘and partridges.’
OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 41.
OJ No L 303, 31.10.1990, p. 6.