Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/320Show full title

Article 3 Animal health conditions for intra-Union trade in salamanders

1. Member States shall prohibit the dispatch of consignments of salamanders to another Member State, except where such consignments comply with the following animal health conditions:

(a) they are accompanied by an animal health certificate which complies with the model animal health certificate set out in Part A of Annex I;

(b) the salamanders must not show clinical signs of Bsal, in particular they must show no skin lesions and ulcers at the time of examination by the official veterinarian; that examination must be carried out within a period of 24 hours prior to the time of dispatch of the consignment to the Member State of destination;

(c) the salamanders must come from a population where there have been no mortalities due to Bsal and no clinical signs of Bsal, in particular skin lesions and ulcers must not have been observed by the operator;

(d) the consignment must consist of:

(i)

at least 62 salamanders which have undergone quarantine as one epidemiological unit in an appropriate establishment which complies with the minimum conditions set out in Annex II for a period of at least 6 weeks immediately prior to the date of the issuing of the animal health certificate set out in Part A of Annex I and skin swab samples from the salamanders in the consignment must have been tested for Bsal with negative results during the fifth week of the period of quarantine with the appropriate diagnostic test, in accordance with the sample sizes set out in point 1(a) of Annex III; or

(ii)

salamanders which have been treated to the satisfaction of the competent authority against Bsal in accordance with point 1(b) of Annex III.

2. Where consignments of salamanders have been introduced into the Union from a third country and they have already undergone quarantine in an appropriate establishment of destination in accordance with Article 6, Member States shall only authorise their dispatch to another Member State where such consignments comply with the following conditions:

(a) the animal health conditions laid down in paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c);

(b) the salamanders have been kept in quarantine in the appropriate establishment which complies with the minimum conditions set out in Annex II, between the end of the period of quarantine following their introduction into the Union and the issuing of the animal health certificate set out in Part A of Annex I.