PART VIΙ

EMERGENCY MEASURES
Section 2

Emergency measures concerning consignments of animals and products originating from third countries and territories, and means of transport and other material, that may have come into contact with such consignments

Commission emergency measures
Article 261
1
Where a listed disease, an emerging disease or a hazard that is likely to constitute a serious risk occurs or spreads in a third country or territory, or if any other serious animal or public health reason so warrants, the Commission may, by means of an implementing act and acting on its own initiative or at the request of a Member State, adopt one or more of the following emergency measures, depending on the gravity of the situation:
a
suspend the entry into the Union of consignments of animals and products, and means of transport or other material, that may have come into contact with such consignments, which may spread that disease or hazard into the Union;
b
establish special requirements for the entry into the Union of animals and products, and of means of transport and other material that may have come into contact with such animals and products, which may spread that disease or hazard into the Union;
c
take any other appropriate emergency disease control measures to prevent the spread of such disease or hazard into the Union.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 266(2).
2
On duly justified imperative grounds of urgency relating to serious risks, the Commission shall, after consulting the Member State concerned, adopt immediately applicable implementing acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 266(3).