Commission Decision of 19 January 2011 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in Bulgaria (notified under document C(2011) 179) (Text with EEA relevance) (2011/44/EU)

Article 1 U.K. Live animals

1. Bulgaria shall ensure that the conditions set out in paragraphs 2 to 7 of this Article are met, without prejudice to the measures taken by that Member State within the framework of:

(a) Directive 2003/85/EC; and

(b) Decision 2008/855/EC.

2. No live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates shall move between the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II.

3. No live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates shall be dispatched from or moved through the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II.

4. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, the competent authorities of Bulgaria may authorise the direct and uninterrupted transit of biungulate animals through the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II on main roads and railway lines.

5. The health certificates, as provided for in Directive 64/432/EEC for live bovine animals and, without prejudice to Article 8b and 9 of Decision 2008/855/EC, for porcine animals and in Directive 91/68/EEC for live ovine and caprine animals, accompanying animals consigned from parts of the territory of Bulgaria not listed in Annex I and Annex II to other Member States shall bear the following words:

‘Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2011/44/EU of 19 January 2011 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in Bulgaria(1).’

6. The health certificates accompanying biungulates other than those covered by the certificates referred to in paragraph 5, consigned from parts of the territory of Bulgaria not listed in Annex I and Annex II to other Member States shall bear the following words:

‘Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2011/44/EU of 19 January 2011 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in Bulgaria(2).’

7. Animals accompanied by an animal health certificate as referred to in paragraphs 5 and 6 may be moved to other Member States only if the local veterinary authority in Bulgaria has, 3 days before the move, notified the central and local veterinary authorities in the Member State of destination.

8. By way of derogation from paragraph 2 the competent authorities of Bulgaria may authorise the transport of animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease from holding situated in areas listed in Annex II to a slaughterhouse situated in the areas listed in Annex I.

9. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of Bulgaria may authorise the transport of pigs from holdings outside the surveillance zone established in accordance with Article 21 of Directive 2003/85/EC for immediate slaughter at designated slaughterhouses situated in the areas listed in Annex II under the following conditions:

(a) the pigs originate from holdings in the area listed in Annex I from which consignments of fresh pigmeat and meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or containing meat of those pigs may be dispatched in accordance with Article 6 of Decision 2008/855/EC.

The central veterinary authority of Bulgaria shall communicate to the other Member States and to the Commission the list of holdings which they have approved for the purpose of application of this paragraph;

(b) during the 21 days prior to the date of transport to the slaughterhouse, the animals have remained under the supervision of the competent veterinary authority on a single holding which is situated in the centre of a circle around the holding of at least 10 km radius, where there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease during at least 30 days prior to the date of loading;

(c) no animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease have been introduced into the holding referred to in the introductory sentence of this paragraph during the 21 days prior to the date of loading, except in the case of pigs coming from a supplying holding which complies with the conditions laid down in point (b), in which case the period of 21 days may be reduced to 7 days;

(d) the transport of pigs is only authorised after the satisfactory completion of the measures provided for in Article 22(2) of Directive 2003/85/EC.

(1)

OJ L 19, 22.1.2011, p. 20.’

(2)

OJ L 19, 22.1.2011, p. 20.’