F2ANNEX IIIMONITORING SYSTEM
F4CHAPTER B REPORTING AND RECORDING REQUIREMENTS
I. REQUIREMENTS ON F5APPROPRIATE AUTHORITIES
A. Information to be presented by F6appropriate authorities in their annual report
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The number of suspected cases placed under official movement restrictions in accordance with Article 12(1), per animal species.
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The number of suspected cases subject to laboratory examination in accordance with F7Article 12, per animal species, including the results of the rapid and confirmatory tests (number of positives and negatives) and, with regard to bovine animals, the age distribution of all tested animals. The age distribution should be grouped as follows: ‘ below 24 months ’ , distribution per 12 months between 24 and 155 months, and ‘ above 155 months ’ of age.
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The number of flocks where suspected cases in ovine and caprine animals have been reported and investigated pursuant to F8Article 12.
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The number of bovine animals tested within each subpopulation referred to in Chapter A, Part I, points 2.1, 2.2, 3.1 and 5. The method of the sample selection, the results of the rapid and confirmatory tests and the age distribution of the tested animals grouped as set out in point 2 shall be provided.
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The number of ovine and caprine animals and flocks tested within each subpopulation referred to in Chapter A, Part II, points 2, 3, 5 and 6 together with the method for sample selection and the results of the rapid and confirmatory tests.
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The geographical distribution, including the country of origin if not the same as the reporting country, of positive cases of BSE and scrapie. The year, and where possible the month of birth shall be given for each TSE case in bovine, ovine and caprine animals. TSE cases which have been considered atypical shall be indicated. For scrapie cases, the results of the primary and secondary molecular testing, referred to in Annex X, Chapter C, point 3.2(c), shall be reported, where appropriate.
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In animals other than bovine, ovine and caprine animals, as well as in cervids other than those covered by the three-year CWD monitoring programme referred to in Part III.A of Chapter A of this Annex, the number of samples and confirmed TSE cases per species.
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The genotype, and, where possible, the breed, of each ovine animal found positive to TSE and sampled in accordance with Chapter A, Part II, point 8.
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B. Reporting periods
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II. INFORMATION TO BE PRESENTED IN THE UNION SUMMARY REPORT
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III. RECORDS
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The competent authority shall keep, for 7 years, records of the information referred to in Part I.A.
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The investigating laboratory shall keep, for 7 years, all records of testing, in particular laboratory workbooks and, where appropriate, paraffin blocks and photographs of western blots.
Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2245/2003 of 19 December 2003 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards monitoring of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in ovine and caprine animals.