# 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 6: Restrictions on the movement and dispatch of mallard ducks derived from vaccinated mallard ducks

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

1. Portugal shall ensure that mallard ducks derived from the vaccinated parent mallard ducks are only moved after hatching from the holding referred to in Article 1(1) to a holding located in an area surrounding that holding.
That area shall be established and identified by Portugal as set out in the preventive vaccination plan.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, mallard ducks derived from vaccinated parent mallard ducks and provided they are older than four month may be:
(a) released into the wild in Portugal; or
(b) dispatched from Portugal provided that:
(i) the results of the surveillance and laboratory tests as set out in the preventive vaccination plan, are favourable;
(ii) the conditions for dispatch of poultry for restocking supplies of wild game laid down in Decision 2006/605/EC are met.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2013/651/article/6 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2013-651/article-6
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