CHAPTER 2MONITORING AND SURVEILLANCE AND EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION

Article 5Epidemiological information

1.

Member States shall transmit to the BlueTongue NETwork application (BT-Net system), established by Decision 2007/367/EC, information on bluetongue gathered in the course of the implementation of the bluetongue monitoring and/or surveillance programmes, and in particular:

(a)

a monthly report, transmitted not later than one month after the end of the reporting month, which shall contain at least:

  1. (i)

    the data on the sentinel animals from the bluetongue monitoring programmes in place in the restricted zones;

  2. (ii)

    the entomological data from the bluetongue monitoring programmes in place in the restricted zones;

(b)

an intermediate report covering the first six months of the year, and transmitted each year by 31 July at the latest, which shall contain at least:

  1. (i)

    the data from the bluetongue surveillance programmes in place outside the restricted zones;

  2. (ii)

    the vaccination data from the restricted zones;

(c)

an annual report, transmitted by 30 April of the following year at the latest, which shall contain the information referred to in points (b)(i) and (ii) for the previous year.

2.

The information to be transmitted to the BT-Net system is set out in Annex II.