PART IITERRESTRIAL ANIMALS

CHAPTER IIDisease control measures for category A diseases of kept terrestrial animals in the restricted zones

Section 3Disease control measures in the surveillance zone

Article 49Specific conditions for authorising movements of fresh meat and raw milk obtained from kept animals of listed species from establishments located in the surveillance zone

1

The competent authority may authorise movements of fresh meat and raw milk obtained from animals of listed species kept in establishments located in the surveillance zone if, either:

a

the fresh meat or the raw milk is moved to a processing establishment to undergo one of the risk-mitigating treatments set out in Annex VII; or

b

the fresh meat is obtained from poultry.

2

The competent authority shall ensure that fresh meat and the raw milk moved pursuant paragraph 1(a), comply with the following:

a

fresh meat is marked in accordance with Annex IX when it is obtained in the slaughterhouse and keeps such mark until it is treated; and

b

the treatment is applied in an establishment situated in the same restricted zone or as near as possible of the restricted zone, which operates under the supervision of official veterinarians.