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PART II U.K. TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS

CHAPTER II U.K. Disease control measures for category A diseases of kept terrestrial animals in the restricted zones

Section 3 U.K. Disease control measures in the surveillance zone

Article 48 U.K. Specific conditions for authorising movements of semen from approved germinal product establishments in the surveillance zone

The competent authority may authorise movements of semen collected from animals of listed species kept in approved germinal product establishments, excluding hatcheries, located in the surveillance zone after the estimated date of earliest infection of the affected establishment provided that:

(a)

all the disease control measures relating to the relevant category A disease have been lifted in the surveillance zone in accordance with Article 55;

(b)

all the kept animals of listed species in the semen collection centre have undergone a clinical examination and have been sampled for laboratory examinations in order to rule out the presence of the category A disease in the semen collection centre;

(c)

the donor animal has been subjected with favourable results to a laboratory examination on a sample taken not earlier than seven days after the monitoring period set out in Annex II for the relevant disease, calculated forwards from the date on which the semen was collected.