CHAPTER II

CONTROL OF OUTBREAKS OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE
SECTION 6

PROTECTION AND SURVEILLANCE ZONES

Additional measures and derogations
Article 24
1
The competent authority may extend the prohibitions in Article 23 to:
a
movement or transport of animals of non-susceptible species between holdings situated within the zone or out of or into the protection zone;
b
transit of animals of all species through the protection zone;
c
events with gatherings of people with possible contact with animals of susceptible species, where there is a risk of spreading the foot-and-mouth disease virus;
d
artificial insemination of or collection of ova and embryos from animals of species not susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease;
e
movement of means of transport designed for the transportation of animals;
f
the slaughter on the holding of animals of susceptible species for private consumption;
g
transport of goods referred to in Article 33 to holdings keeping animals of susceptible species.
2
The competent authorities may authorise:
a
the transit of animals of all species through the protection zone undertaken exclusively via major highways or mainline railways;
b
the transport of animals of susceptible species which have been certified by the official veterinarian as coming from holdings outside the protection zone and transported on designated routes directly to designated slaughterhouses for immediate slaughter, provided that the means of transport are cleansed and disinfected after delivery under official supervision at the slaughterhouse and such decontamination of transport is recorded in the logbook of the means of transport;
c
the artificial insemination of animals on a holding carried out by the personnel of that holding by use of semen collected from animals on that holding or semen stored on that holding or semen delivered from a semen collection centre to the outside perimeter of that holding;
d
the movement and transport of equidae taking into account the conditions set out in Annex VI.
e
the transport, under certain conditions, of goods referred to in Article 33 to holdings keeping animals of susceptible species.