Article 5
United Kingdom
Within the areas listed in Annex I(A):
at least one risk based zone is defined by the competent authorities;
at least the services provided by persons in direct contact with pigs or requiring entering the housing areas for pigs and the use of vehicles for transport of feed, manure or dead animals to and from pig holdings situated in the areas listed in Annex I(A) are limited to that or those defined zones and are not shared with other parts of the Community unless after thorough cleansing and disinfection of the vehicles, equipment and any other fomite and a minimum absence of any contact to pigs or pig holdings of at least tree days; contacts in connection with transport carried out pursuant to Article 2(2)(a) shall be deemed to have taken place within that defined zone or those defined zones.
Without prejudice to the measures already taken in the framework of Directive 2001/89/EC, Germany shall as soon as possible preventively depopulate all pig holdings situated in the protection zone of a confirmed outbreak in the municipality of Borken in North Rhine Westphalia.
The precautionary measures referred to in the first subparagraph shall be taken without prejudice to Council Decision 90/424/EEC on expenditure in the veterinary field.
In the areas listed in Annex I(A) surveillance measures are carried out in accordance with the principles set out in Annex II.
Preventive disease control measures are applied as necessary, in accordance with Article 4(3)(a) of Council Directive 2001/89/EC.
An appropriate information campaign is addressed to pig farmers.