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Division 3

United Kingdom

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The measures in the protection zone shall continue to be applied at least until:

  1. (a)

    all measures laid down in Article 16 of this Directive have been carried out;

  2. (b)

    all the holdings in the zone have undergone:

    1. (i)

      a clinical examination of the pigs which has revealed that they have no signs of disease suggesting the presence of swine vesicular disease; and

    2. (ii)

      a serological examination of a statistical sample of the pigs without the detection of antibodies to swine vesicular disease. The programme for serological screening shall take into account the transmission of swine vesicular disease and the way in which pigs are kept. The programme shall be fixed under the procedure laid down in Article 25 of this Directive before the date of entry on which it is brought into effect.

The examination and sampling referred to in (i) and (ii) shall not take place before 28 days have elapsed after the completion of preliminary cleaning and disinfection measures at the infected holding.