1.[F1The appropriate Minister] shall ensure that immediately following receipt by the competent authority of any notification, as provided for in Article 1, and whenever no clear cause of disease other than avian influenza is identified, the competent authority shall arrange for:
(a)appropriate samples to be collected from dead birds and if possible from other birds which have been in contact with the dead birds;
(b)those samples must be subjected to laboratory tests for the detection of the avian influenza virus.
2.Sampling and testing procedures shall be carried out in accordance with Chapters II to VIII of the Diagnostic Manual for avian influenza approved by Decision 2006/437/EC.
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Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 16(4)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Art. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 16(4)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)