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Division 2 Additional criteria for the decision to introduce emergency vaccination

United Kingdom

Criteria	Decision
24/48 hours rule means: (a) infected herds on holdings referred to in Article 10 cannot be stamped out within 24 hours after the confirmation of the disease, and (b) the pre-emptive killing of animals likely to be infected or contaminated cannot be safely carried out within less than 48 hours.
Criteria	For vaccination	Against vaccination
Acceptance of regionalisation by third countries	known	unknown
Economic assessment of competing control strategies	If it is foreseeable that a control strategy without emergency vaccination would lead to significantly higher economic losses in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors	If it is foreseeable that a control strategy with emergency vaccination would lead to significantly higher economic losses in the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors
It is foreseeable that the 24/48 hours rule cannot be implemented effectively for two consecutive days^f1	Yes	No
Significant social and psychological impact of total stamping out policy	Yes	No
Existence of large holdings of intensive livestock production in a non-densely populated livestock area	Yes	No

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f1

24/48 hours rule means:

(a)

infected herds on holdings referred to in Article 10 cannot be stamped out within 24 hours after the confirmation of the disease, and
(b)

the pre-emptive killing of animals likely to be infected or contaminated cannot be safely carried out within less than 48 hours.