Article 15Measures relating to live feral pigs, fresh meat, meat preparations and meat products consisting of or containing meat from feral pigs

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The Member States concerned shall:

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prohibit the dispatch of live feral pigs from the areas listed in the Annex to other areas in the territory of the same Member State which are not listed;

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ensure that no consignments of fresh meat of feral pigs, meat preparations and meat products consisting of or containing such meat from the areas listed in the Annex are dispatched to other Member States or to other areas in the territory of the same Member State.

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By way of derogation from paragraph 1(b), the Member States concerned may authorise the dispatch of consignments of fresh meat of feral pigs, meat preparations and meat products consisting of or containing such meat from the areas listed in Part I of the Annex to other areas in the territory of the same Member State not listed in the Annex, provided that the feral pigs have been tested with negative results for African swine fever in accordance with the diagnostic procedures set out in Parts C and D of Chapter VI of the Annex to Decision 2003/422/EC.

F2By way of derogation from paragraph 1(b), the Member States concerned may authorise the dispatch of meat from feral pigs from the areas listed in Parts I and II of the Annex to other areas in the territory of the same Member State or to other Member States, provided that such meat:

a

has been produced and processed in accordance with Article 4(1) of Directive 2002/99/EC and undergone heat treatment as prescribed by either point (a) or (d) of Annex III to that Directive;

b

is subjected to veterinary certification in accordance with Article 5 of Directive 2002/99/EC;

c

is accompanied by the appropriate intra-Union trade health certificate as set out in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 599/2004 and Part II of that certificate must be completed by the following sentence: Products in accordance with Commission Implementing Decision 2014/709/EU.

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All Member States shall prohibit the dispatch of live feral pigs to other Member States and to third countries.

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