Division 1

F1The appropriate Minister shall ensure that appropriate clinical examinations, sampling and laboratory investigations are carried out in suspected holdings to confirm or exclude classical swine fever, in accordance with the guidelines and procedures laid down in subparagraphs 2 to 7.

Irrespective of the adoption of the measures referred to in Article 4(2) of Directive 2001/89/EC in the holding in question, those guidelines and procedures shall also apply in cases of disease whenever classical swine fever is considered in the differential diagnosis. This will include occasions when the clinical signs and epidemiological pattern of disease that are observed in pigs suggest a very low probability of occurrence of classical swine fever.

In all other cases where one or more pigs are suspected of being infected with classical swine fever virus, the measures referred to in Article 4(2) of Directive 2001/89/EC shall be adopted in the suspected holding in question.

In case of suspicion of classical swine fever in pigs in a slaughterhouse or means of transport, the guidelines and procedures laid down in subparagraphs 2 to 7 shall also apply mutatis mutandis.