Commission Implementing Decision of 27 November 2012 amending Annexes I and II to Council Directive 82/894/EEC on the notification of animal diseases within the Community (notified under document C(2012) 8518) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/737/EU)

ANNEX U.K.

Annexes I and II to Directive 82/894/EEC are amended as follows:

(1)

Annex I is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX I Diseases which are subject to notification

A. Diseases of terrestrial animals U.K.

• List A.1:

  • African horse sickness

  • African swine fever

  • Anthrax

  • Avian influenza (HPAI in poultry, captive birds and wild birds and LPAI in poultry and captive birds)

  • Bluetongue

  • Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

  • Classical swine fever

  • Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia

  • Dourine

  • Equine encephalomyelitis of the following types:

    • Eastern equine encephalomyelitis

    • Japanese encephalitis

    • Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis

    • West Nile fever

    • Western equine encephalomyelitis

  • Equine infectious anaemia

  • Foot-and-mouth disease

  • Glanders

  • Lumpy skin disease

  • Newcastle disease

  • Peste des petits ruminants

  • Infection with rabies virus

  • Rift Valley fever

  • Rinderpest

  • Sheep pox and goat pox

  • Small hive beetle infestation (Aethina tumida)

  • Swine vesicular disease

  • Tropilaelaps infestation of honey bees

  • Vesicular stomatitis

• List A.2:

  • Bovine brucellosis

  • Bovine tuberculosis

  • Enzootic bovine leukosis

  • Caprine and ovine brucellosis (excluding Brucella ovis)

B. Diseases of aquaculture animals U.K.

• Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis

• Infectious haematopoietic necrosis

• Infectious salmon anaemia

• Infection with Perkinsus marinus

• Infection with Mikrocytos mackini

• Infection with Marteilia refringens

• Infection with Bonamia ostreae

• Infection with Bonamia exitiosa

• Koi herpes virus disease

• Taura syndrome

• Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia

• White spot disease

• Yellowhead disease’.”

(2)

Annex II is amended as follows:

(a)

point C is replaced by the following:

‘C. In the case of diseases of terrestrial animals referred to in list A.2 of Annex I:

• The confirmation of any outbreak, infection or presence of the disease agent in a herd as laid down in Annexes A and D to Directive 64/432/EEC or in a holding as laid down in Annex A to Council Directive 91/68/EEC(1), or the withdrawal of the officially free status to any such herd or holding due to the laboratory or epidemiological investigation as laid down in Annexes A and D to Directive 64/432/EEC or in Annex A to Directive 91/68/EEC in a Member State or region thereof officially free from the diseases in accordance with those Directives and not epidemiologically linked with a previous outbreak shall be notified as a primary outbreak as defined in Article 2(d) and shall be notified to the Commission and Member States within one week.

• Any other confirmation of an outbreak, infection or presence of the disease agent or withdrawal of the officially free status to any herd or holding due to the laboratory or epidemiological investigation as laid down in Annexes A and D to Directive 64/432/EEC or in Annex A to Directive 91/68/EEC in a Member State or region thereof officially free from the diseases in accordance with those Directives shall be notified as secondary outbreaks, in accordance with Article 4(1) of this Directive.

• Secondary outbreaks shall be notified to the Commission and the Member States on a monthly basis.

• In the case of bovine tuberculosis, bovine brucellosis and ovine and caprine brucellosis the name of the pathogen species shall also be included in the notification when known.’;

(b)

the following point is added:

‘D. In the case of diseases of aquaculture animals referred to in point B of Annex I:

• The confirmation of any outbreak of an exotic disease and of outbreaks of non-exotic diseases in previously disease-free Member States, zones or compartments as defined in Council Directive 2006/88/EC(2) shall be notified as primary outbreaks.

• Other outbreaks than those mentioned in the first indent shall be notified as secondary outbreaks in accordance with Article 4(1) of this Directive.

• Secondary outbreaks shall be notified to the Commission and the Member States on monthly basis. The name and description of the zone or compartment shall also be included in the notification.’.

(1)

OJ L 46, 19.2.1991, p. 19.’;

(2)

OJ L 328, 24.11.2006, p. 14.’.