1.A Member State which is not free from African horse sickness may dispatch equidae from that part of its territory which is considered to be infected within the meaning of paragraph 2 of this Article only under the conditions set out in paragraph 5.
2.A part of the territory of a Member State shall be considered to be infected with African horse sickness if:
(a)clinical, serological (in unvaccinated animals) and/or epidemiological evidence has revealed the presence of African horse sickness in the past two years; or
(b)vaccination against African horse sickness has been carried out in the past 12 months.
The part of the territory considered to be infected with African horse sickness shall comprise as a minimum:
(a)a protection zone with a radius of at least 100 km around any centre of infection;
(b)a surveillance zone of at least 50 km extending beyond the protection zone, in which no vaccination has been carried out in the last 12 months.
3.The control rules and the measures to combat African horse sickness relating to the territories and zones referred to in paragraph 2 and the relevant derogations are specified in Council Directive 92/35/EEC of 29 April 1992 laying down control rules and measures to combat African horse sickness(1).
4.All vaccinated equidae found in the protection zone must be registered and marked in accordance with Article 6(1)(d) of Directive 92/35/EEC.
The identification document and/or health certificate shall carry a clear reference to such vaccination.
5.A Member State may dispatch from the territory referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 2 only equidae which meet the following requirements:
(a)they must be dispatched only during certain periods of the year, having regard to the activity of vector insects, to be determined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 21(3);
(b)they must show no clinical symptom of African horse sickness on the day of the inspection referred to in Article 4(1);
(c)they must have undergone a test for African horse sickness as described in Annex IV, on two occasions, with an interval of between 21 and 30 days between the two tests, the second of which must have been carried out during the 10 days prior to dispatch either:
with negative results, if they have not been vaccinated against African horse sickness; or
without having recorded an increase in the antibody count and without having undergone vaccination during the previous two months, if they have been vaccinated against African horse sickness.
In accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 21(2), and following the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority, other monitoring methods may be recognised;
(d)they must have been kept in a quarantine station for a minimum period of 40 days prior to dispatch;
(e)they must have been protected from vector insects during the period of quarantine and during transportation from the quarantine station to the place of dispatch.