1.The purpose of this Regulation is to ensure that proper and effective measures are taken to detect and to control salmonella and other zoonotic agents at all relevant stages of production, processing and distribution, particularly at the level of primary production, including in feed, in order to reduce their prevalence and the risk they pose to public health.
2.This Regulation shall cover:
(a)the adoption of targets for the reduction of the prevalence of specified zoonoses in animal populations:
at the level of primary production; and
where appropriate for the zoonosis or zoonotic agent concerned, at other stages of the food chain, including in food and feed;
(b)the approval of specific control programmes established by Member States and food and feed business operators;
(c)the adoption of specific rules concerning certain control methods applied in the reduction of the prevalence of zoonoses and zoonotic agents;
(d)the adoption of rules concerning intra-Community trade and imports from third countries of certain animals and products thereof.
3.This Regulation shall not apply to primary production:
(a)for private domestic use; or
(b)leading to the direct supply, by the producer, of small quantities of primary products to the final consumer or to local retail establishments directly supplying the primary products to the final consumer.
4.Member States shall establish, under national law, rules governing the activities referred to in paragraph 3(b). Such national rules shall ensure that the objectives of this Regulation are achieved.
5.This Regulation shall apply without prejudice to more specific Community provisions on animal health, animal nutrition, food hygiene, communicable human diseases, health and safety in the workplace, gene technology and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.