Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

Article 228 Delegation of powers and implementing acts concerning animal health requirements for other animals, and germinal products and products of animal origin of other animals

1. The Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 264 concerning any specific requirements for other animals, and their germinal products or products of animal origin, which are necessary in order to mitigate the risk of the listed diseases referred to in point (d) of Article 9(1), as provided for in Article 227.

2. The Commission may adopt implementing acts concerning detailed rules for the implementation of the disease control and prevention measures provided for in paragraph 1.

Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 266(2).

3. When adopting the delegated acts and implementing acts provided for in paragraphs 1 and 2, the Commission shall base those acts on the following criteria:

(a) the species or categories of other animals listed in accordance with Article 8(2) as listed species for one or more listed diseases, for which certain disease prevention and control measures provided for in this Regulation apply;

(b) the profile of the listed disease in question, which concerns species and categories of other animals referred to in point (a);

(c) the feasibility, availability and effectiveness of disease prevention and control measures for the listed species concerned by those measures;

(d) the prevailing terrestrial or aquatic living environment of those other animals;

(e) the types of diseases that are affecting such other animals, which can be either diseases normally affecting terrestrial or aquatic animals, regardless of the prevailing living environment referred to in point (d).