Division A Sampling requirements

One sample consists of one or more animals from the same producer, according to the requirements of the analytical methods.

• Each official sample must be taken by official competent authorities in such way that it is always possible to trace it back to the farm of origin of the rabbits.

• The samples, according to the structure of the rabbit production in each F1relevant constituent territory of Great Britain, can be taken:

  1. (a)

     either at farm level,

  2. (b)

     or at the level of the registered slaughterhouses (within the meaning of Council Directive 91/495/EEC^f1).

F2... Some additional samples of drinking water and feedingstuffs may be taken at farm level, for the control of illegal substances.