Council Directive 92/35/EECShow full title

ANNEX IV U.K. CRITERIA FOR CONTINGENCY PLANS

Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria:

1.

the establishment of a crisis centre on a national level, which shall coordinate all control measures in the Member State concerned;

2.

a list shall be provided of local disease control centres with adequate facilities to coordinate the disease control measures at a local level;

3.

detailed information shall be given about the staff involved in control measures, their skills and their responsibilities;

4.

each local disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak;

5.

equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control measures properly;

6.

detailed instructions shall be provided on action to be taken, including means of disposal of carcases, on suspicion and confirmation of infection or contamination;

7.

training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in field and administrative procedures;

8.

diagnostic laboratories must have facilities for post-mortem examination, the necessary capacity for serology, histology, etc., and must maintain the skills for rapid diagnosis (to that end arrangements should be made for rapid transportation of samples);

9.

details shall be provided of the quantity of African horse sickness vaccine estimated to be required in the event of a reinstatement of emergency vaccination;

10.

provisions shall be made to ensure the legal powers, necessary for the implementation of the contingency plans.