Article 7Additional health requirements for poultry, hatching eggs and day-old chicks from third countries where vaccines used against Newcastle disease do not meet Community standards
1.Where third countries do not prohibit the use of vaccines against Newcastle disease not meeting the specific criteria set out in point 2 of Annex B to Decision 93/342/EEC, the following additional health requirements shall apply to poultry and day-old chicks imported there from:
(a)for at least 12 months preceding the date of export to the Community, they have not been vaccinated with such vaccines;
(b)not more than two weeks before the date of export to the Community or, in the case of hatching eggs, not earlier than two weeks before the date of collection of the eggs, the flocks have undergone a virus isolation test for Newcastle disease:
carried out in an official laboratory;
on a random sample of cloacal swabs from at least 60 birds in each flock;
in which no avian paramyxoviruses with an Intracerebral Pathogenicity Index of more than 0,4 have been found;
(c)during the two-week period referred to in (b), they have been kept in isolation under official surveillance on the holding of origin;
(d)during a period of 60 days before the date of export to the Community or, in the case of hatching eggs, during a period of 60 days before the date of collection of the eggs, they have not been in contact with poultry not meeting the requirements in (a) and (b).
2.Where day-old chicks are imported from a third country as referred to in paragraph 1, the hatching eggs from which they have hatched have not been in contact in the hatchery or during transport with poultry or hatching eggs not meeting the requirements in (a) to (d).