Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/687Show full title

Article 8 Inventory and records analysis in the event of suspicion of a category A disease in kept animals in an establishment

1. In the event of suspicion of a category A disease, the competent authority shall order and verify that, without delay, operators of the establishments where a category A disease is suspected compile and maintain an up-to-date inventory of the following:

(a) the species, categories and number of animals kept on the establishment; for poultry, the number of animals may be estimated;

(b) the individual identification number of all the animals of species for which the individual identification is compulsory in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035(1);

(c) the species, categories and number of kept animals of listed species which have been born, died, showed clinical signs or are likely to be infected or contaminated with the category A disease in the establishment;

(d) any product, material or substance likely to be contaminated with or likely to transmit the relevant category A disease in the establishment; and

(e) when relevant, all places likely to enable the survival of the vectors of the relevant category A disease in the establishment.

2. Where the establishment consists of several epidemiological units, the information in paragraph 1 shall be specified for each epidemiological unit.

3. In the framework of the epidemiological enquiry, as referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, the competent authority shall analyse at least the following records of the establishment where a category A disease is suspected:

(a) the inventory referred to in paragraph 1;

(b) the records concerning the origin and date of arrival and departure at or from the establishment of kept animals of listed species;

(c) the records concerning the origin and date of arrival and departure at or from the establishment of other relevant transport movements;

(d) the production records; and

(e) the records concerning to visits to the establishment, if available.

4. The records analysis referred to in paragraph 3 shall cover, at least, the monitoring period set out in Annex II for the relevant disease, calculated backwards from the date on which the suspicion was notified.

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 of 28 June 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries, and the traceability of certain kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (OJ L 314, 5.12.2019, p. 115).