{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2460/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/2460",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460 of 23 December 2015 concerning certain protective measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5 in France (notified under document C(2015) 9818) (Only the French text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-2460",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Without prejudice to the measures to be applied in the protection and surveillance zones in accordance with Article 1 of this Decision, France shall establish a further restricted zone in accordance with Article 16(4) of Directive 2005/94/EC which includes at least the areas listed as further restricted zone in the Annex to this Decision.\n2. France shall ensure that no consignments of live poultry, ready-to-lay poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs are dispatched from the areas listed in the Annex.\n3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of France may authorise the dispatch of consignments of day-old chicks from the areas listed in the Annex outside the established protection and surveillance zones to holdings located within that Member State or to other Member States or to third countries provided that:\n(a) they are hatched from hatching eggs originating from poultry holdings located outside the protection and surveillance zones;\n(b) the hatchery of dispatch can ensure by its logistics and biosecurity working conditions that no contact has occurred between these hatching eggs and any other hatching eggs or day-old-chicks originating from poultry flocks within established protection and surveillance zones and which are therefore of a different health status;\n(c) the competent authority of the Member State or third country of destination is given written notification in advance and has agreed to receive the consignments of the day-old chicks and to notify the date of arrival of the consignments at the holding of destination on its territory to the competent authority of France.\n4. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of France may authorise the dispatch of consignments of hatching eggs from the areas listed in the Annex outside the established protection and surveillance zones to hatcheries located within that Member State, other Member States or third countries provided that they are collected from holdings situated on the day of collection in the further restricted zone listed in the Annex, and on which the poultry have tested negative in a serological survey for avian influenza capable of detecting 5 % prevalence of disease with at least a 95 % level of confidence and traceability is ensured.\n5. France shall ensure that the veterinary certificates provided for in Annex IV to Directive 2009/158/EC accompanying the consignments referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article to be dispatched to other Member States include the words:\n‘The consignment complies with the animal health conditions laid down in Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/2460.’.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 339, 24.12.2015, p. 52’."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2015/2460/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:14:06.691974+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}