Article 3 Conditions for implementing the preventive vaccination plan

Portugal shall ensure that the mallard ducks are vaccinated, in accordance with the preventive vaccination plan, with a monovalent inactivated heterologous vaccine containing the avian influenza subtype H5 authorised by that Member State in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.

Portugal shall ensure that surveillance and laboratory testing of the holding keeping the vaccinated mallard ducks and of unvaccinated poultry holdings, as set out in the preventive vaccination plan, is carried out.

Portugal shall ensure that the preventive vaccination plan is implemented efficiently.