PART II

DISEASE NOTIFICATION AND REPORTING, SURVEILLANCE, ERADICATION PROGRAMMES, DISEASE–FREE STATUS
CHAPTER 4

Disease–free status

Implementing powers
Article 40
The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, lay down detailed requirements concerning the information to be provided by Member States to the Commission and the other Member States to substantiate declarations of disease–free status of territories, zones and compartments in accordance with Articles 36 to 39, and the format and procedures for:
1. applications for recognition of disease–free status of the entire territory of the Member State concerned, or zones and compartments thereof;
2. exchanges of information between the Member States and the Commission on disease-free Member States, or zones and compartments thereof.
Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 266(2).