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Textual Amendments
Monitoring in bovine animals shall be carried out in accordance with the laboratory methods laid down in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3(1)(b).
subject to ‘special emergency slaughtering’ as defined in Article 2(n) of Council Directive 64/433/EEC (1) , or
slaughtered in accordance with Annex I, Chapter VI, point 28(c), to Directive 64/433/EEC, except animals without clinical signs of disease slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign,
shall be tested for BSE.
subject to normal slaughter for human consumption, or
slaughtered in the context of a disease eradication campaign in accordance with Annex I, Chapter VI, point 28(c), to Directive 64/433/EEC, but showing no clinical signs of disease,
shall be tested for BSE.
killed for destruction pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 (2) ,
killed in the framework of an epidemic, such as foot-and-mouth disease,
slaughtered for human consumption,
shall be tested for BSE.
In addition to the testing referred to in points 2 to 4, Member States may on a voluntary basis decide to test other bovine animals on their territory, in particular where those animals originate from countries with indigenous BSE, have consumed potentially contaminated feedingstuffs or were born or derived from BSE infected dams.
Monitoring in ovine and caprine animals shall be carried out in accordance with the laboratory methods laid down in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3.2(b).
Member States in which the population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram exceeds 750 000 animals shall test a minimum annual sample of 10 000 ovine animals which are slaughtered for human consumption (4) . The animals shall be over 18 months of age or have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum. The sampling shall be representative for each region and season. The sample selection shall be designed with a view to avoiding the over-representation of any group as regards the origin, age, breed, production type or any other characteristic. The age of the animals shall be estimated based on dentition, obvious signs of maturity or other reliable information. Multiple sampling in the same flock shall be avoided, where possible.
Ovine and caprine animals over 18 months of age or which have more than two permanent incisors erupted through the gum which have died or been killed, but which were not:
killed in the framework of a disease eradication campaign,
slaughtered for human consumption,
shall be tested in accordance with the sample sizes indicated in table A and table B respectively. The sampling shall be representative for each region and season. The sample selection shall be designed with a view to avoiding the over-representation of any group as regards the origin, age, breed, production type or any other characteristic. The age of the animal shall be estimated based on dentition, obvious signs of maturity or other reliable information. Multiple sampling in the same flock shall be avoided, where possible. The Member State shall put in place a system to check, on a targeted or other basis, that animals are not being diverted from sampling
Member States may decide to exclude remote areas with a low animal density, where no collection of dead animals is organised, from the sampling. Member States making use of this derogation shall inform the Commission thereof, and submit a list of the derogated areas. The derogation shall not cover more than 10 % of the ovine and caprine population in the Member State.
a Sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the ovine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets. The sample sizes of 10 000 , 1 500 , 500 and 100 animals will allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,03%, 0,2 %, 0,6 % and 3 % respectively with a 95 % confidence. | |
Member State population of ewes and ewe lambs put to the ram | Minimum sample size of dead ovine animals a |
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> 750 000 | 10 000 |
100 000 - 750 000 | 1 500 |
40 000 - 100 000 | 500 |
< 40 000 | 100 |
a Sample sizes are set to take account of the size of the caprine populations in the individual Member States and are intended to provide achievable targets. The sample sizes of 5 000 , 1 500 , 500 and 50 animals will allow the detection of a prevalence of 0,06 %, 0,2 %, 0,6 % and 6 % respectively with a 95 % confidence. Where a Member State experiences difficulty in collecting sufficient numbers of dead caprine animals to reach its allotted sample size, it may choose to supplement its sample by testing caprine animals slaughtered for human consumption over the age of 18 months at the ratio of three caprine animals slaughtered for human consumption to one dead caprine animal. | |
Member State population of goats which have already kidded and goats mated | Minimum sample size of dead caprine animals a |
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> 750 000 | 5 000 |
250 000 - 750 000 | 1 500 |
40 000 - 250 000 | 500 |
< 40 000 | 50 |
From 1 October 2003 , animals over 12 months or which have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, which are killed in accordance with the provisions of Annex VII, point 2(b)(i) or (ii) or point 2(c), shall be tested based on the selection of a simple random sample, in accordance with the sample size indicated in the table
a The sample size is calculated to be 95 % certain of including at least one positive if the disease is present at a minimum prevalence of 2 % in the test population. | |
Number of culled animals over 12 months in the herd or flock | Minimum sample size a |
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70 or less | All eligible animals |
80 | 68 |
90 | 73 |
100 | 78 |
120 | 86 |
140 | 92 |
160 | 97 |
180 | 101 |
200 | 105 |
250 | 112 |
300 | 117 |
350 | 121 |
400 | 124 |
450 | 127 |
500 or more | 150 |
In addition to the monitoring programmes set out in points 2, 3 and 4, Member States may on a voluntary basis carry out monitoring in other animals, in particular:
animals used for dairy production,
animals originating from countries with indigenous TSEs,
animals which have consumed potentially contaminated feedingstuffs,
animals born or derived from TSE-infected dams,
Member States may on a voluntary basis carry out monitoring for TSE in animal species other than bovine, ovine and caprine animals.]
[F1The sample size has been calculated to detect a prevalence of 0,03 % with a 95 % confidence in slaughtered animals. The sample is restricted to Member States with a large sheep population.]