Commission Decision of 12 May 1993 laying down the criteria for classifying third countries with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of live poultry and hatching eggs (repealed)

Article 2 U.K.

A third country is classified as free from avian influenza and Newcastle disease if it fulfils the following general criteria:

(a)

it must have a general animal-health structure allowing adequate monitoring of poultry flocks;

(b)

it must have legislation which makes avian influenza and Newcastle disease notifiable diseases for all species of poultry and for all birds kept in captivity;

(c)

it must undertake to examine closely any suspicion of those diseases;

(d)

if there is suspicion, it must submit samples of each avian influenza virus or paramyxovirus found to specific laboratory testing in accordance with the procedure set out in Annex A;

(e)

it must have at its disposal laboratory capacity in its own official laboratories or have arrangements with other national laboratories for rapid testing;

(f)

[F1 it must send a list of these laboratories, as well as a description of the methods used for diagnosis and pathotyping of avian influenza and Newcastle disease to the Commission and allow checking of them by experts from the Community;

(g)

for each primary outbreak it must send virusisolates to the EC reference laboratory in Weybridge (Addlestone, United Kingdom);

(h)

it must notify to the Commission, within 24 hours after confirmation, of initial outbreaks in each previously free part of its territory;

(i)

it must send to the Commission, at least monthly in the event of subsequent outbreaks in the same part of the territory, a report on the disease situation;]

(j)

in cases where vaccination against avian influenza and/or Newcastle disease is not forbidden, it must officially control the production, testing and distribution for the vaccines;

(k)

it must communicate to the Commission the characteristics of each strain used for the production of vaccines against avian influenza or Newcastle disease.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Decision of 7 June 1994 laying down the criteria for classifying third countries and parts thereof with regard to avian influenza and Newcastle disease in relation to imports of fresh poultrymeat and amending Decision 93/342/EEC (94/438/EC).