CHAPTER IVMARKING AND PREVENTIVE HEALTH MEASURES
SECTION 2 Preventive health measures for diseases or infections other than rabies
Article 19Preventive health measures and conditions for their application
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Where preventive health measures are necessary for the protection of public health or the health of pet animals for controlling diseases or infections other than rabies that are likely to be spread due to the movement of those pet animals, the F1appropriate authority may make regulations concerning species-specific preventive health measures for such diseases or infections.
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The species-specific preventive health measures authorised by F3regulations made under paragraph 1 shall be based on adequate, reliable and validated scientific information and applied proportionately to the risk to public or animal health associated with the non-commercial movement of pet animals likely to be affected by diseases or infections other than rabies.
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F4Regulations made under paragraph 1 may also include:
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F6(b)
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the conditions for applying and documenting the preventive health measures referred to in paragraph 2 prior to the non-commercial movement of pet animals;
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the conditions for granting derogations in certain specified circumstances from the application of the preventive health measures referred to in paragraph 2.
F7Article 20List of Member States or parts thereof referred to in point (a) of Article 19(3)
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