# Commission Implementing Decision of 8 November 2013 approving a preventive vaccination plan against low pathogenic avian influenza in a holding keeping mallard ducks in Portugal and certain provisions for their movements and products thereof (notified under document C(2013) 7310) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (2013/651/EU), Article 1: Subject matter and scope

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. This Decision lays down certain measures to be applied in Portugal in one holding in the municipality of Vila Nova da Barquinha, region of Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Ribatejo Norte, where preventive vaccination of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) intended for restocking supplies of game (‘mallard ducks’) is carried out in a holding, which is exposed to the risk of the introduction of the avian influenza virus.
Those measures include:
(a) certain restrictions on the movement within and dispatch from Portugal of the vaccinated mallard ducks, their hatching eggs and mallard ducks derived therefrom;
(b) the disposal of vaccinated mallard ducks.
2. This Decision shall apply without prejudice to the protection measures to be taken by Portugal in accordance with Directive 2005/94/EC and Decision 2006/605/EC.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/651/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-651/article-1
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