Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688Show full title

Article 12 U.K. Supplementary requirements for movements of kept bovine animals to other Member States or zones thereof with approved eradication programmes for specific diseases

1. Operators shall only move kept bovine animals to another Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for enzootic bovine leukosis when the animals are in compliance with the requirements set out in Article 10 and provided the requirements in either point (a) or point (b) are fulfilled:

(a) the animals come from an establishment free from enzootic bovine leukosis;

or

(b) if the animals come from an establishment that is not free from enzootic bovine leucosis, enzootic bovine leukosis has not been reported in that establishment during the last 24 months prior to departure of the animals, and

(i)

in case the animals are over 24 months of age, they have been subjected to a serological test for enzootic bovine leukosis with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 4 of Annex I, carried out, with negative results,

either

• on samples taken on two occasions at an interval of at least four months while kept in isolation from the other bovine animals of the establishment;

  or

• on samples taken during the last 30 days prior to their departure, provided that all bovine animals over 24 months kept in the establishment have been subjected to a serological test for enzootic bovine leukosis with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 4 of Annex I, carried out, with negative results, on samples taken on two occasions at an interval of at least four months during the last 12 months prior to the departure of the animals;

or

(ii)

in case the animals are less than 24 months of age, they were born to dams, which have been subjected to a serological test for enzootic bovine leukosis with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 4 of Annex I, carried out, with negative results, on samples taken on two occasions at an interval of not less than four months during the last 12 months prior to the departure of the animals.

2. Operators shall only move kept bovine animals to another Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis when the animals are in compliance with the requirements set out in Article 10 and provided that the requirements in either point (a) or point (b) are fulfilled:

(a) if the animals come from an establishment free from infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis,

either

(i)

the establishment is situated in a Member State or zone thereof with the status free from infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis;

or

(ii)

the establishment is situated in a Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis;

or

(iii)

the animals have been subject to quarantine for at least 30 days prior to departure and have been subjected to a serological test for the detection of antibodies against whole BoHV-1 or, in case of animals vaccinated with a gE-deleted vaccine, antibodies against the BoHV-1 gE protein, with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 5 of Annex I, with a negative result, on a sample taken during the last 15 days prior to their departure;

or

(iv)

the animals are destined for an establishment which keeps bovine animals for meat production without contact to bovine animals of other establishments, and from which they are directly moved to the slaughterhouse;

or

(b) if the animals come from an establishment not free from infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis, they have been kept in an approved quarantine establishment for at least 30 days prior to departure and have been subjected to a serological test for the detection of antibodies against whole BoHV-1 with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 5 of Annex I, with a negative result, on a sample taken not less than 21 days after commencement of the quarantine.

3. Operators shall only move kept bovine animals to another Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for bovine viral diarrhoea when the animals are in compliance with the requirements set out in Article 10 and provided that the requirements in either point (a) or point (b) are fulfilled:

(a) if the animals come from an establishment free from bovine viral diarrhoea,

(i)

the establishment is situated in a Member State or zone thereof with the status free from bovine viral diarrhoea;

or

(ii)

the establishment is situated in a Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for bovine viral diarrhoea;

or

(iii)

the establishment has been subject to a testing regime as referred in point 1(c) (ii) or (iii) of Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Part VI of Annex IV to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689, carried out, with negative results, within the last four months prior to departure;

or

(iv)

the animals have been tested individually to exclude the presence of bovine viral diarrhoea virus prior to departure;

or

(v)

the animals are destined for an establishment which keeps bovine animals for meat production separate from bovine animals of other establishments, and from which they are directly moved to the slaughterhouse;

(b) if the animals come from an establishment not free from bovine viral diarrhoea, they have been subjected to a test for bovine viral diarrhoea virus antigen or genome with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 6 of Annex I, carried out, with negative results,

and

(i)

the animals either have been kept in an approved quarantine establishment for a period of at least 21 days prior to their departure and, in case of pregnant dams, were subjected to a serological test for the detection of antibodies against the bovine viral diarrhoea virus with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 6 of Annex I, carried out, with negative results, on samples taken not less than 21 days after commencement of the quarantine;

or

(ii)

the animals were subjected to a serological test for the detection of antibodies against the bovine viral diarrhoea virus with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 6 of Annex I, with positive results, carried out on samples taken either prior to departure or, in case of pregnant dams, before the insemination preceding the current gestation.

4. By way of derogation from Article 10(1)(i), the competent authority of the Member State of origin may authorise the movement of kept bovine animals which do not fulfil at least one of the requirements laid down in points 1 to 3 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 to another Member State or zone thereof with an approved eradication programme for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24), if the Member State of destination has informed the Commission and the other Member States that such movements are authorised under the conditions referred to in Article 43(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689.

5. The provisions in paragraph 1 to 4 shall not apply to kept bovine animals intended for slaughter as referred to in Article 14.