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Article 52 Manufacture, sale and use of avian influenza vaccines

United Kingdom

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1.

Member States shall ensure that:

(a)

vaccination against avian influenza is prohibited on their territory, except as provided for in Sections 2 and 3;

(b)

the handling, manufacture, storage, supply, distribution and sale of avian influenza vaccines on their territory are carried out under official supervision;

(c)

only vaccines authorised in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal productsf1 or Regulation No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agencyf2 are used.

2.

Rules relating to the conditions of supply and storage of stocks of avian influenza vaccines in the Community may be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 64(2).

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Footnotes

f1

OJ L 311, 28.11.2001, p. 1. Directive as last amended by Directive 2004/28/EC (OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 58).

f2

OJ L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1.