Division 2
United Kingdom
Sampling must primarily concern:
pigs showing signs or post-mortem lesions suggesting ASF and their in-contact pigs,
other pigs which might have had risky contacts with infected or suspected pigs or which are suspected to have been contaminated with the ASF virus. These pigs must be sampled in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority, which will take into account the epidemiological situation.
Furthermore, pigs proceeding from each of the subunits of the holding must be sampled at randomf1. In this case, the minimum number of samples to be taken for serological tests must allow for the detection of 10 % seroprevalence with 95 % confidence in the subunit in question.
The type of samples to be taken for virological tests and the test to be used will be in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority, which will take into account the range of tests that can be performed, the sensitivity of these tests and the epidemiological situation.
Annotations
Footnotes
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However, if the competent authority has limited the application of preventive killing only to the part of the holding where the pigs suspected of being infected or contaminated with ASF virus were kept, in accordance with Article 4(3)(a) of Directive 2002/60/EC, sampling must concern the subunits of the holding where this measure has been applied, without prejudice to the further examinations and sampling to be carried out on the remaining pigs in the holding, which will be carried out in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority.
Notes on Chapter IV
Textual amendments
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Words in Annex Ch. 4 Section A para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 8(5); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)