1.Member States shall notify to the Commission their restricted zones, and any change in the situation of those zones within 24 hours.
2.Before taking any decision to remove an epidemiologically relevant geographical area from a restricted zone, Member States shall provide the Commission with substantiated information demonstrating the absence of bluetongue virus circulation in that area during a period of two years following the implementation of the bluetongue monitoring programme.
3.The Commission shall inform the Member States in the framework of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health of the list of restricted zones.
4.Member States shall draw up and keep updated a list of the restricted zones in their territory and make it available to the other Member States and to the public.
5.The Commission shall publish, for information purposes only, on its website the updated list of restricted zones.
That list shall include information on the bluetongue virus serotypes circulating in each restricted zone, which permits, for the purposes of Articles 7 and 8, the identification of the restricted zones demarcated in different Member States where the same bluetongue virus serotypes are circulating.