# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/892 of 9 June 2015 concerning the approval of a plan for preventive vaccination against low pathogenic avian influenza in a holding keeping mallard ducks in Portugal and certain measures restricting the movements of such poultry and their products (notified under document C(2015) 3745) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic), 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 and 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/2015/892/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-892/article-1
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