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Division II Officially brucellosis-free and brucellosis-free bovine herdsF1F2

United Kingdom

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For the purposes of this section ‘ bovine animals ’ means all bovine animals with the exception of males for fattening provided that they come from officially brucellosis-free herds and that the competent authority guarantees that the males for fattening will not be used for breeding and will go direct for slaughter.

  1. 1A bovine herd is officially brucellosis-free if:
  2. 2A bovine herd will retain officially brucellosis-free status if:
  3. 3AThe officially brucellosis-free status of a herd is to be suspended if:
  4. 3BThe officially brucellosis-free status of the herd is to be withdrawn if, as a result of laboratory tests or epidemiological investigations, brucella infection has been confirmed in the herd.
  5. 4A bovine herd is brucellosis-free if it complies with the conditions in 1(b) and (c) and when vaccination has been carried out as follows:
  6. 5A bovine herd will retain brucellosis-free status if:
  7. 6AThe brucellosis-free status of a herd is to be suspended if:
  8. 6BThe brucellosis-free status of the herd is to be withdrawn if, as a result of laboratory tests of epidemiological investigations, brucella infection has been confirmed in a herd. The status of the herd is not to be restored until either all the bovine animals present in the herd at the time of the outbreak have been slaughtered or the herd has been subject to check testing and all unvaccinated animals over 12 months of age have given negative results to two consecutive tests at 60 day intervals, the first being carried out not less than 30 days after removal of the positive animal(s).
  9. 7A Member State or a region of a Member State may be declared officially brucellosis-free according to the procedure laid down in Article 17 if it meets the following conditions:
  10. 8Subject to paragraph 9, a Member State or a region of a Member State declared officially brucellosis-free is to retain this status if:
  11. 9Division 9
  12. 10Division 10

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Council Directive 97/12/EC of 17 March 1997 amending and updating Directive 64/432/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine.

F2

Substituted by Council Directive 98/46/EC of 24 June 1998 amending Annexes A, D (Chapter I) and F to Directive 64/432/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine.