{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-35/annex-IV",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-35/annex-IV.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1992/35",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/35/EEC of 29 April 1992 laying down control rules and measures to combat African horse sickness",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-35",
  "path": "annex/IV",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "IV",
  "heading": "CRITERIA FOR CONTINGENCY PLANS",
  "text": "Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria:\n1.. the establishment of a crisis centre on a national level, which shall coordinate all control measures in the Member State concerned;\n2.. a list shall be provided of local disease control centres with adequate facilities to coordinate the disease control measures at a local level;\n3.. detailed information shall be given about the staff involved in control measures, their skills and their responsibilities;\n4.. each local disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak;\n5.. equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control measures properly;\n6.. detailed instructions shall be provided on action to be taken, including means of disposal of carcases, on suspicion and confirmation of infection or contamination;\n7.. training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in field and administrative procedures;\n8.. 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);\n9.. 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;\n10.. provisions shall be made to ensure the legal powers, necessary for the implementation of the contingency plans.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/35/annex/IV",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:22.892813+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}