Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008Show full title

ANNEX III U.K. [F1 LEGISLATIVE REQUIREMENTS], INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND PROCEDURES FOR EXAMINATION, SAMPLING AND TESTING AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 6

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Annex 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(a) (with regs. 69-71)

I. Before import into [F2 Great Britain] U.K.

Methods for standardisation of materials and procedures for examination, sampling and testing for:

1.

Avian influenza

• Diagnostic manual for avian influenza as laid down in Commission Decision 2006/437/EC(1); or

• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE)(2).

2.

Newcastle disease

• Annex III to Council Directive 92/66/EEC(3); or

• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE);

• Where Article 12 of Directive [F3 2009/158/EC] [F4 (to be read as if for “ Community legislation ” in point (d) there were substituted “ relevant legislation in Great Britain ”, and as if paragraph 2 were omitted)] applies, the sampling and testing methods must comply with the methods described in Annexes to Commission Decision 92/340/EEC(4).

3.

Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum

• Chapter III of Annex II to Directive [F3 2009/158/EC]; or

• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).

4.

[F5 Salmonella arizonae

• Chapter III of Annex II to Directive [F3 2009/158/EC]; or

• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).]

5.

Mycoplasma gallisepticum

• Chapter III of Annex II to Directive [F3 2009/158/EC]; or

• Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).

6.

Mycoplasma meleagridis

Chapter III of Annex II to Directive [F3 2009/158/EC].

7.

[F3 Salmonella of public health significance

Sampling shall be carried out in accordance with the sampling protocol laid down in point 2.2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 200/2010.

The detection method recommended by the EU reference laboratory (EURL) for salmonella in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, or an equivalent method shall be used. That method is described in the current version of Annex D of ISO 6579 (2002): ‘Detection of Salmonella spp. in animal faeces and in samples of the primary production stage’. For that detection method, a semi-solid medium (modified semi-solid Rappaport-Vassiladis medium, MSRV) is used as the single selective enrichment medium.

Serotyping shall be carried out following the Kauffmann-White scheme or an equivalent method.]

8.

[F6 Additional guarantees (X) in relation to certain third countries not free from Newcastle disease

8.1.

In establishments referred to in point 8.2, the official veterinarian must:

(a)

check the production and health records of the establishment;

(b)

carry out a clinical inspection in each production unit, including an evaluation of its clinical history and clinical examinations of poultry — in particular of those that appear sick — in each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended;

(c)

sample at least 60 tracheal or oropharyngeal and 60 cloacal swabs for laboratory investigations to be performed for checking the presence of Newcastle disease virus from poultry and ratites from each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended; if the number of birds present in that epidemiological unit is smaller than 60, swabs must be taken from all birds. In case of products referred to in point 8.2(c) this sampling may also take place at the slaughterhouse.

8.2.

Point 8.1 applies in establishments from which it is intended to dispatch to [F7 Great Britain]:

(a)

breeding or productive poultry and breeding or productive ratites (BPP, BPR);

(b)

day-old chicks of poultry, day-old chicks of ratites, hatching eggs of poultry or ratites and eggs for consumption (DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, E);

(c)

meat obtained from poultry and ratites kept on such holdings (POU, RAT).

8.3.

The procedures provided for in point 8.1 must be carried out:

(a)

for the commodities referred to in points (a) and (c) of point 8.2, within not more than 72 hours prior to dispatch to [F8 Great Britain] or prior to the slaughter of the poultry and ratites;

(b)

for the commodities referred to in point (b) of point 8.2, at intervals of 15 days or in case of infrequent dispatch to [F9 Great Britain], not more than seven days before collection of the hatching eggs.

8.4.

The procedures referred to in point 8.1 must have a favorable outcome and the laboratory investigations referred to above must be performed in an official laboratory, give negative results and be available before dispatch to [F10 Great Britain] of any of the commodities listed in points 8.2.]

Textual Amendments

F3 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2258 of 4 December 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards imports and transit of single consignments of less than 20 units of poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof (Text with EEA relevance).

F4 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 point 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)

F5 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/2009 of 18 May 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance).

F6 Inserted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/608 of 14 April 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards the entries for Ukraine and Israel in the list of third countries, the approval of the control programme of Ukraine for Salmonella in laying hens, the veterinary certification requirements concerning Newcastle disease and processing requirements for egg products (Text with EEA relevance).

F7 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 point 8.2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(iii) (with regs. 69-71)

F8 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 point 8.3(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(iv) (with regs. 69-71)

F9 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 point 8.3(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(iv) (with regs. 69-71)

F10 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 point 8.4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(v) (with regs. 69-71)

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 1 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(b)(i) (with regs. 69-71)

II. After import into [F11 Great Britain] U.K.

Sampling and testing procedures for avian influenza and Newcastle disease: U.K.

During the period referred to in point II.1 of Annex VIII, the official veterinarian shall take samples from the imported poultry for virological examination, to be tested as follows:

• Between the seventh and the fifteenth day following the date of commencement of the isolation period, cloacal swabs must be taken from all birds where the consignment contains less than 60 birds, and from at least 60 birds where consignments contain more than 60 birds;

• Testing of samples must be carried out in official laboratories designated by the competent authority, using diagnostic procedures for:

  (i)

  avian influenza as laid down in the diagnostic manual in Commission Decision 2006/437/EC;

  (ii)

  Newcastle disease as laid down in Annex III to Council Directive 92/66/EEC.

Textual Amendments

F11 Words in Annex 3 Pt. 2 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(23)(c) (with regs. 69-71)

III. General requirements U.K.

• Samples may be pooled, subject to a maximum of five samples from individual birds in each pool.

• Virus isolates must be sent without delay to the national reference laboratory.

(1)

OJ L 237, 31.8.2006, p. 1.

(2)

http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mmanual/A_summry.htm

(3)

OJ L 260, 5.9.1992, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2006/104/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 352).

(4)

OJ L 188, 8.7.1992, p. 34.