Article 25 Sampling of bovine herds in accordance with compliance deadlinesI1

England and Wales

(1)

The keeper of a bovine herd must, by each compliance deadline, arrange for an approved veterinary surgeon, or person under the F1direction of an approved veterinary surgeon, to take samples of blood to test for exposure to BVDV—

(a)

from 5 individual calves between the age of 9 and 18 months in the relevant group, or

(b)

from 10 individual calves between the age of 0 and 9 months in the relevant group, or

(c)

if the sample sizes in (a) or (b) cannot be met, the veterinary surgeon should advise on an appropriate sampling size from the available age ranges within the bovine herd.

(2)

For the purposes of this article “relevant group” means separately located or managed groups within a herd but which are assigned the same CPH number by the Welsh Ministers.

(3)

The veterinary surgeon must submit any samples taken under paragraph (1) to an approved laboratory for testing.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Order substituted (8.5.2025) by The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (Wales) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/516), arts. 1(2), 2(3)

Commencement

I1: Art. 25 in force at 1.7.2024, see art. 1(3)