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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Commission Decision of 12 December 2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards requirements for quarantine of aquaculture animals (notified under document number C(2008) 7905) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/946/EC), CHAPTER IV.
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1.Fish shall be quarantined for at least 60 days.
2.Crustaceans shall be quarantined for at least 40 days.
3.Molluscs shall be quarantined for at least 90 days.
1.To demonstrate the absence of the relevant listed disease(s), the examination, sampling, testing and diagnosis referred to in Annex II shall be carried out with negative results.
2.Sentinel aquaculture animals may be used for the examination, sampling, testing and diagnosis, except where species susceptible to infection with Marteilia refringens are quarantined.
3.The competent authority shall determine the number of sentinel aquaculture animals to be used, taking into account the number of aquaculture animals kept, the size of the quarantine unit, and the characteristics of the relevant listed disease(s) and species.
4.Sentinel aquaculture animals shall be:
(a)of species susceptible to the relevant listed disease(s) and, where possible and taking into account their living conditions, being at the most susceptible life stages;
(b)sourced from a [F1a constituent GB territory], zone or compartment, or from a third country or part thereof declared free of the relevant listed disease(s);
(c)unvaccinated against the relevant listed disease(s);
(d)placed in the quarantine unit immediately before or upon arrival of the aquaculture animals to be quarantined and kept in contact with those animals and under the same zootechnical and environmental conditions.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 14(4)(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 8(14)
The competent authority shall inspect the conditions of the quarantine at least at the beginning and the end of the quarantine period of each consignment of aquaculture animals.
When the competent authority carries out such inspections, it shall:
ensure that the environmental conditions conducive to the laboratorial detection of the relevant listed disease(s) are present;
examine the mortality records during the quarantine;
where relevant, check the aquaculture animals in the quarantine units.
1.Vector species shall be quarantined for at least 30 days.
2.The water of the quarantine unit shall be exchanged at least once a day.
The competent authority shall inspect the conditions of the quarantine at least at the beginning and the end of the quarantine period of each consignment of aquaculture animals.
When the competent authority carries out such inspections, it shall:
examine the mortality records during the quarantine;
where relevant, check the aquaculture animals in the quarantine units.
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