{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2002-106/annex/chapter-IV/division-A/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2002-106/annex/chapter-IV/division-A/division-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2002/106",
  "legislation_title": "2002/106/EC: Commission Decision of 1 February 2002 approving a Diagnostic Manual establishing diagnostic procedures, sampling methods and criteria for evaluation of the laboratory tests for the confirmation of classical swine fever (Text with EEA relevance) (notified under document number C(2002) 381)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2002-106",
  "path": "annex/chapter/IV/division/A/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "When an official veterinarian visits a suspected holding to confirm or rule out classical swine fever:\na check of the production and health records of the holding must be carried out, if these records are available;\nan inspection in each sub-unit of the holding must be carried out to select the pigs to be clinically examined.\nThe clinical examination must include the taking of body temperature and must primarily concern the following pigs or group of pigs:\nsick or anorexic pigs;\npigs recently recovered from disease;\npigs recently introduced from confirmed outbreaks or from other suspected sources;\npigs kept in sub-units recently visited by external visitors which had a recent close contact with classical swine fever suspected or infected pigs or for which other particularly risky contacts with a potential source of classical swine fever virus have been identified;\npigs already sampled and serologically tested for classical swine fever, in case the results of these tests do not allow to rule out classical swine fever, and in-contact pigs.\nIf the inspection in the suspected holding has not indicated the presence of the pigs or group of pigs referred to in the above subparagraph, the competent authority, without prejudice to other measures that may be applied in the holding in question in accordance with Directive 2001/89/EC and taking into account the epidemiological situation, shall:\ncarry out further examinations in the holding in question in accordance with subparagraph 3 below; or\nensure that blood samples for laboratory tests are taken from the pigs in the holding in question. In this case the sampling procedures laid down in subparagraph 5 and in F.2, shall be used for guidance purposes; or\nadopt or maintain the measures laid down in Article 4(2) of Directive 2001/89/EC, pending further investigations in the holding in question; or\nrule out the suspicion of classical swine fever.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2002/106/annex/chapter/IV/division/A/division/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:18:36.246374+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}