Division C

Each year the following details on each zoonotic agent and data category concerned must be described with their consequences:

1. (a)

   changes in the systems already described;

2. (b)

   changes in previously described methods;

3. (c)

   results of the investigations and of further typing or other method of characterisation in laboratories (for each category reported on separately);

4. (d)

   national evaluation of the recent situation, the trend and the sources of infection;

5. (e)

   relevance as zoonotic disease;

6. (f)

   relevance to human cases, as a source of human infection, of findings in animals and food;

7. (g)

   control strategies recognised that could be used to prevent or minimise transmission of the zoonotic agent to humans;

8. (h)

   if necessary, any specific action decided in the Member State or suggested for the Community as a whole on the basis of the recent situation.