Article 29 Additional sampling of individual bovine animalsI1

England and Wales

(1)

This article applies where a bovine herd has a collective BVD status of not negative in accordance with article 28(b).

(2)

The keeper must—

(a)

take an ear tag sample of tissue in accordance with article 13, or

(b)

arrange for an approved veterinary surgeon, or person under the F1direction of an approved veterinary surgeon, to take a sample of blood,

from each animal in the herd for testing by an approved laboratory.

(3)

Paragraph (2) does not apply to any animal that has an individual BVD status of negative.

Annotations

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)