Division 1 Semen must be obtained from animals which:F1

show no clinical signs of disease on the date the semen is collected;

have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease;

satisfy the requirements of Chapter I of Annex B;

are not allowed to serve naturally;

are kept in semen collection centres which must not be situated in a restricted area defined under the provisions of Union legislation due to the emergence of an infectious or contagious disease in domestic pigs, including foot-and-mouth disease, swine vesicular disease, vesicular stomatitis, classical swine fever and African swine fever;

are kept in semen collection centres in which no clinical, serological, virological or pathological evidence of Aujeszky’s disease has been detected in the 30-day period immediately prior to the date of collection.