Article 4 Conditions for implementing the preventive vaccination plan

The Netherlands shall ensure that the preventive vaccination of backyard poultry and organic and free-range layers is carried out in accordance with the preventive vaccination plan with an inactivated heterologous vaccine of avian influenza subtype H5 or with a bivalent inactivated heterologous vaccine containing both avian influenza subtypes H5 and H7 authorised by that Member State or the Community in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.

The Netherlands shall ensure that intensive monitoring and surveillance, as set out in the preventive vaccination plan is carried out in the backyard poultry and flocks of organic or free-range layers where preventive vaccination is carried out.

The Netherlands shall ensure that the preventive vaccination plan is implemented efficiently.