Article 4 Animal health conditions for the introduction into the Union of consignments of salamanders

Member States shall prohibit the introduction into the Union of consignments of salamanders from a third country, except where such consignments comply with the following conditions:

(a)

they come from third countries listed in one of the following:

(i)

Annex I to Decision 2004/211/EC;

(ii)

Part 2 of Annex II to Decision 2007/777/EC;

(iii)

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008;

(iv)

Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 119/2009;

(v)

Part 1 of Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 206/2010;

or

(vi)

Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 605/2010;

(b)

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

(c)

the salamanders must not show clinical signs of Bsal, in particular there must be no signs of skin lesions and ulcers at the time of examination by the official veterinarian; and that examination must have been carried out within a period of 24 hours prior to the time of dispatch of the consignment to the Union;

(d)

before issuing the animal health certificate referred to in point (b), the epidemiological unit comprising the salamanders in the consignment must have been isolated from other salamanders at the latest at the time of the examination for the purposes of issuing of animal health certificate and they must not have been in contact with other salamanders since that time.