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PART IIIU.K. AQUATIC ANIMALS

CHAPTER II U.K. Disease control measures for category A diseases of aquaculture animals in the restricted zone

Section 3 U.K. Disease control measures in the surveillance zone

Article 99U.K.Measures in relation to the movement and transport of aquaculture animals within from or to the surveillance zone

1.The competent authority shall prohibit any movements of aquaculture animals from establishments within the surveillance zone for slaughter, further farming or release into the wild outside the surveillance zone.

2.The competent authority shall ensure that any transport of aquaculture animals of listed species within or into the surveillance zone shall be conducted under conditions as set out in Article 90(a) to (e) and in Article 91.

3.The competent authority may order appropriate supplementary biosecurity measures to be applied to transport operations, including the unloading in the designated establishment of destination in order to control and prevent the possible spread of the diseases.

4.By way of derogation from paragraph 1, and in agreement with the competent authority of the place of destination, the competent authority may authorise movements of aquaculture animals provided that appropriate biosecurity measures to prevent the spreading of the category A disease are applied.