# Council Directive 92/35/EEC of 29 April 1992 laying down control rules and measures to combat African horse sickness, Annex IV: CRITERIA FOR CONTINGENCY PLANS

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria:
1.. the establishment of a crisis centre on a national level, which shall coordinate all control measures in the Member State concerned;
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.. detailed information shall be given about the staff involved in control measures, their skills and their responsibilities;
4.. each local disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak;
5.. equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control measures properly;
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.. training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in field and administrative procedures;
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.. 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.. provisions shall be made to ensure the legal powers, necessary for the implementation of the contingency plans.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/35/annex/IV (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-35/annex-IV
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