Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007Dangos y teitl llawn

CHAPTER 1 U.K. SUBJECT MATTER AND DEFINITIONS

Article 1 U.K. Subject matter

This Regulation lays down rules for the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of animals with the meaning of Article 2(c) of Directive 2000/75/EC, in relation to bluetongue, in and from the restricted zones.

Article 2 U.K. Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2 of Directive 2000/75/EC shall apply.

In addition, the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘case of bluetongue’ means an animal that meets one of the following requirements:

(i)

it presents clinical signs consistent with the presence of bluetongue;

(ii)

it is a sentinel animal that had showed negative serological results in a previous test and has seroconverted from negative to positive for antibodies to at least one bluetongue serotype since that test;

(iii)

it is an animal from which the bluetongue virus has been isolated and identified as such;

(iv)

it is an animal which has tested positive to bluetongue serological tests or from which viral antigen or viral ribonucleic acid (RNA) specific to one or more of the bluetongue serotypes has been identified.

In addition, a set of epidemiological data must indicate that the clinical signs or results of laboratory tests suggesting bluetongue infection are the consequence of virus circulation in the holding in which the animal is kept and not the result of the introduction of vaccinated or seropositive animals from restricted zones.

(b)

‘outbreak of bluetongue’ means an outbreak of that disease as defined in Article 2(c) of Directive 82/894/EEC;

(c)

‘primary outbreak of bluetongue’ means an outbreak as defined in Article 2(d) of Directive 82/894/EEC, taking into account that, for the purposes of the application of the first indent of Article 3(1) of that Directive, a case of bluetongue is a primary outbreak in the following cases:

(i)

if it is not epidemiologically linked with a previous outbreak; or

(ii)

it implies the demarcation of a restricted zone or a change in an existing restricted zone as referred to in Article 6.

(d)

‘restricted zone’ means a zone consisting of both protection and surveillance zones established pursuant to Article 8(1) of Directive 2000/75/EC;

(e)

‘bluetongue seasonally-free zone’ means an epidemiological relevant geographical area of a Member State for which, for a part of the year, surveillance demonstrates no evidence of bluetongue virus transmission or of adult Culicoides likely to be competent bluetongue vectors;

(f)

‘transit’ means the movement of animals:

(i)

from or through a restricted zone;

(ii)

from a restricted zone through a non-restricted zone back to the same restricted zone; or

(iii)

from a restricted zone through a non-restricted zone to another restricted zone.