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Article 2 Measures restricting movements

United Kingdom

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1.

The competent authority shall ensure that:

(a)

poultry, eggs, poultry carcasses and fresh poultry meat from poultry kept on the holdings referred to in Article 1(1) (‘poultry and other commodities’) are not moved from those holdings;

(b)

poultry and other captive birds are not introduced into the holdings referred to in Article 1(1) during the implementation of the preventive vaccination plan.

2.

The competent authority may, by way of derogation from paragraph 1(a) and in accordance with the preventive vaccination plan, authorise the following movements of poultry and other commodities:

(a)

movement to the national reference laboratory for avian influenza in Germany;

(b)

transport for immediate disposal within Germany following the collection of appropriate samples to be dispatched to that laboratory.