Article 1 Subject matter

This Decision lays down rules for the following:

1. (a)

   the surveillance, buffer zones, sampling and diagnostic methods to be used by F1the appropriate authority in connection with the disease status of F2constituent GB territories or zones or compartments thereof for the non-exotic aquatic animal diseases listed in F3Annex 1A to Regulation 1251/2008 (the ‘listed diseases’);

2. (b)

   the diagnostic methods to be used for laboratory examinations in the case of the suspicion or confirmation of the presence of listed diseases; and

3. (c)

   the minimum control measures to be applied in the event of the suspicion or confirmation of a listed disease in a F4constituent GB territory, zone or compartment not declared free of that listed disease.