1.Member States shall ensure that lagomorphs may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements:
(a)they must not come from or have been in contact with animals from a holding on which rabies is present or is suspected of having been present within the last month;
(b)they must come from a holding in which no animal shows clinical signs of myxomatosis.
2.Member States which require a health certificate for movements of lagomorphs in their territory may require animals being sent to them to be accompanied by a health certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex E, supplemented by the following declaration:
‘I, the undersigned, …, certify that the above consignment satisfies the requirements of Article 9 of Directive 92/65/EEC and that the animals showed no clinical sign of disease on examination.’
This certificate must be issued by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority and for industrial breeding, by the official veterinarian. Member States wishing to use this option shall inform the Commission which must ensure that the requirement laid down in the first paragraph has been satisfied.
3.Ireland and the United Kingdom may require the submission of a health certificate guaranteeing that the requirement laid down in paragraph 1 (a) has been satisfied.