Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2002Show full title

SECTION 5 Disease-free status based on historical and surveillance data

1. Information to be included by the competent authority in applications for the recognition of disease-free status based on historical and surveillance data, provided the disease has never been reported in the territory concerned or it has been eradicated and not reported for at least 25 years prior to the application for the recognition of disease-free status in that territory:

(a)

if recognition of the status free from infestation with Varroa spp. is requested:

documented evidence on the fulfilment of the requirements set out in points (a) to (f) of Section 1 of Part III of Annex V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689;

(b)

if recognition of the status free from infection with Bonamia exitiosa is requested:

(i)

the results of a survey conducted for at least one year in all establishments or groups of establishments keeping listed species within the Member State, zone or compartment, and where required, sampling points in wild populations. They must have been tested using a sample size that allows detection of infection with Bonamia exitiosa with a 95 % level of confidence, if the disease agent is present in the population at a prevalence rate of 2 %;

(ii)

measures applied to prevent the introduction of Bonamia exitiosa into the territory concerned;

(iii)

disease control measures applied in the event of an outbreak;

(c)

if recognition of the status free from infection with WSSV is requested:

(i)

the results of a survey conducted for at least one year in all establishments or groups of establishments keeping listed species within the Member State, zone or compartment, and where required, sampling points in wild populations. They must have been tested using a sample size that allows detection of infection with WSSV with a 95 % level of confidence, if the disease agent is present in the population at a prevalence rate of 2 %;

(ii)

measures applied to prevent the introduction of WSSV into the territory concerned;

(iii)

disease control measures applied in the event of an outbreak.

2. Information covering at least the previous 10 years to be included in applications for the recognition of the status free from BVD based on historical and surveillance data, when it has been reported in the past 25 years and it has been eradicated from the territory concerned:

(a)

number of establishments keeping bovine animals by health status(1) and number of bovine animals kept in these establishments at 31 December of each year;

(b)

testing strategy/regimes and diagnostic methods used to determine the BVD-status of the establishments keeping bovine animals (infected, non-infected);

(c)

testing strategy/regimes and diagnostic methods used to prove the maintenance of the non-infected status of establishments keeping bovine animals;

(d)

measures to prevent the introduction of BVD virus into the territory concerned;

(e)

disease control measures applied in the event of an outbreak;

(f)

number of outbreaks per year;

(g)

number of confirmed cases during the previous 18 months;

(h)

vaccination history and date of prohibition of vaccination against BVD for kept bovine animals.

3. Information to be included in applications for the recognition of disease-free status based on historical and surveillance data if recognition of the status free from infection with Newcastle disease virus infection without vaccination is requested:

documented evidence on the fulfilment of the requirements set out in points (a) to (e) of Section 1 of Part IV of Annex V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689.

(1)

Infected, non-infected, unknown.