PART IV

REGISTRATION, APPROVAL, TRACEABILITY AND MOVEMENTS
TITLE I

TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS, GERMINAL PRODUCTS AND PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN FROM TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS
CHAPTER 5

Movements within the Union of germinal products
Section 1

General requirements

General requirements for movements of germinal products
Article 157
1
Operators shall take appropriate preventive measures to ensure that movements of germinal products do not jeopardise the health status of kept terrestrial animals at the place of destination with regard to:
a
the listed diseases referred to in point (d) of Article 9(1);
b
emerging diseases.
2
Operators shall only move germinal products from their establishments, and receive such germinal products, if the products in question fulfil the following conditions:
a
they come from establishments that have been:
1. entered in the register of establishments by the competent authority in accordance with point (a) of the first paragraph of Article 93 and no derogation has been granted by the Member State of origin in accordance with Article 85;
2. approved by the competent authority in accordance with Article 97(1), when such approval is required by Article 94(1) or Article 95;
b
they fulfil the traceability requirements of Article 121(1) and any rules adopted pursuant to Article 122(1).
3
Operators shall comply with the requirements of Article 125 for the transport of germinal products of kept terrestrial animals.
4
Operators shall not move germinal products from an establishment in one Member State to an establishment in another Member State unless the competent authority of the Member State of destination gives its express authorisation for such movement, where those germinal products are required to be destroyed for disease eradication purposes as part of an eradication programme as provided for in Article 31(1) or (2).