Scottish Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 30
ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Specified Animal Pathogens Amendment (Scotland) Order 2007
Made 30th January 2007
Coming into force 14th February 2007

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
1981 c. 22; see section 86(1) for the definition of “the Ministers”. The functions of the Ministers, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).

Citation, commencement and extent
1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Specified Animal Pathogens Amendment (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 14th February 2007.
(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

Amendment to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998
2. (1) The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.
S.I. 1998/463.
(2) For article 5(2)(a) (exceptions) substitute–

“(a) permitted to be placed on the market under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006 or the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994;
S.I. 2006/2407.
S.I. 1994/3144.”;

(3) For article 5(2)(c) (exceptions) substitute–

“(a) in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with regulation 8(2) (administration of the product) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006.”.

(4) For the Schedule, substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.
ROSS FINNIE
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
30th January 2007

SCHEDULE Schedule to be substituted for the Schedule to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998
Article 2(4)

“SCHEDULE Specified animal pathogens
Articles 3 and 4

PART 1 Pathogens the possession of which or the introduction of which into any animal must be licensed
African horse sickness virus
African swine fever virus
Aujeszky’s disease virus
Avian influenza viruses which are–
(a) uncharacterised; or
(b) Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six week old chickens of greater than 1.2; or
(c) Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin
Babesia bovis, B. bigemina, B. caballi and B. equi
Bacillus anthracis
Bluetongue virus
Bovine leukosis virus
Brucella abortus
Brucella melitensis
Brucella ovis
Brucella suis
Burkholderia mallei
Classical swine fever virus
Cochliomyia hominivorax
Ehrlichia ruminatum
Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses
Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosis
Equine infectious anaemia virus
Foot and mouth disease virus
Hendra disease virus
Histoplasma farciminosum
Japanese encephalitis virus
Lumpy skin disease virus
Mycoplasma agalactiae
Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae
Mycroplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants
Mycoplasma mycoides var Capri
Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are–
(a) uncharacterised; or
(b) have an intercerebral pathogenicity index in one day old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test
Nipah disease virus
Peste des petits ruminants virus
Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus
Rift Valley Fever virus
Rinderpest virus
St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus
Sheep and goat pox virus
Swine vesicular disease virus
Teschen disease virus
Theileria annulata
Theileria equi
Theileria parva
Trichinella spiralis
Trypanosoma brucei, T. congolense, T. equiperdum, T. evansi, T. simiae and T. vivax
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus
Vesicular stomatitis virus
West Nile virus

PART 2 Pathogens the introdution of which into any animal must be licensed but possession of which need not be licensed
The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits”

(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 (“the 1998 Order”).
It updates references to veterinary medicines legislation (article 2(2) and (3)).
It also substitutes for the Schedule to the 1998 Order the Schedule to this Order (article 2(4)).
The effect of this Order is–
(a) to extend the licensing requirements in Part 1 of the Schedule to Nipah disease virus, West Nile virus, St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus and Theileria equi;
(b) to substitute “Hendra disease virus” for “Equine morbillivirus” and “Ehrlichia ruminatum” for “Cowdria ruminatum”; and
(c) to make minor amendments to the terms Burkholdaria (Pseudomonas) mallei, Peste de petits ruminants virus and swine vesicular disease.
This Order was notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (O.J. No. L 204 21.07.98, p.37), as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (O.J. No. L 217 05.08.98, p.18).