Annex IV CRITERIA FOR CONTINGENCY PLANS

Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria:

1. 1..

   the establishment of a crisis centre on a national level, which shall coordinate all control measures in the Member State concerned;

2. 2..

   a list shall be provided of local disease control centres with adequate facilities to coordinate the disease control measures at a local level;

3. 3..

   detailed information shall be given about the staff involved in control measures, their skills and their responsibilities;

4. 4..

   each local disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak;

5. 5..

   equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control measures properly;

6. 6..

   detailed instructions shall be provided on action to be taken, including means of disposal of carcases, on suspicion and confirmation of infection or contamination;

7. 7..

   training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in field and administrative procedures;

8. 8..

   diagnostic laboratories must have facilities for post-mortem examination, the necessary capacity for serology, histology, etc., and must maintain the skills for rapid diagnosis (to that end arrangements should be made for rapid transportation of samples);

9. 9..

   details shall be provided of the quantity of African horse sickness vaccine estimated to be required in the event of a reinstatement of emergency vaccination;

10. 10..

    provisions shall be made to ensure the legal powers, necessary for the implementation of the contingency plans.