Article 3 F1

United Kingdom

Each Member State shall ensure that only animals that fulfil the relevant conditions laid down in this Directive are sent from its territory to that of another Member State.

Bovine animals and swine covered by this Directive must:

(a)

be subjected:

to an identity check, and
to a clinical inspection within 24 hours of departure by an official veterinarian and show no clinical sign of disease;

(b)

not have been obtained from a holding or an area which for health reasons is subject to prohibition or restriction affecting the species involved in accordance with Community and/or national legislation;

( F2 X1c )

be identified in accordance with the provisions of Directive 92/102/EEC, in the case of swine and in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 in the case of bovine animals;

(d)

not be animals which are to be slaughtered and not be restricted under a contagious or infectious disease eradication programme of a Member State or region;

(e)

comply with the provisions of Articles 4 and 5.

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 Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC.

Editorial notes

X1: Substituted by Corrigendum to Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (Official Journal of the European Union L 5 of 9 January 2004).