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Article 4 Restrictions on movements of poultry

United Kingdom

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1.

The competent authority shall ensure that poultry that come from and/or originate from holdings in Italy where emergency vaccination has been carried out (‘emergency vaccination holdings’) are not moved to other parts of Italy or dispatched to other Member States.

2.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1 poultry for slaughter that come from and/or originate from emergency vaccination holdings may be moved to other parts of Italy or dispatched to other Member States, where the poultry originate from flocks which:

(a)

before loading have been examined with favourable results in accordance with point 1 of Annex II, and

(b)

are dispatched to a slaughterhouse:

  1. (i)

    within Italy and are slaughtered immediately upon arrival; or

  2. (ii)

    in another Member State following the agreement of the Member State of destination and are slaughtered immediately upon arrival.