Division I.2.1 Surveillance programmes

A F1constituent GB territory, zone or compartment which has Category III health status in accordance with part B of Annex III to Directive 2006/88/EC with regard to ISA may achieve Category I health status with regard to that listed disease when all farms keeping susceptible species F2... within the constituent GB territory, zone or compartment meet the relevant requirements set out in Annex V to F3Directive 2006/88/EC and all those farms and, when required by the second paragraph of point 2 of Part I of Annex V thereto, sampling points in wild populations selected in accordance with that point, have been subject to the following surveillance programme:

1. (a)

   the farms or sampling points have been subject to health inspections and sampled for a minimum period of two consecutive years as laid down in Table 3.A set out in Section II;

2. (b)

   during that 2-year period, the testing of all samples using the diagnostic methods set out in point II.2 must have produced negative results for HPR-deleted ISAV and any suspicion of ISA must have been ruled out in accordance with the diagnostic methods set out in point II.3;

3. (c)

   if during the implementation of the surveillance programme, ISA is confirmed in a farm included in that surveillance programme, and therefore its Category II health status has been withdrawn, an eradication programme in accordance with point I.2.2 must have been carried out.