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Article 9 Further conditions for the transit of animalsF1

United Kingdom

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1.

The transit of animals shall be allowed by the competent authority provided that:

(a)

after adequate cleansing and disinfection at the place of loading, the means in which the animals are transported are treated with authorised insecticides and/or repellents. This treatment must in any case take place prior to leaving or entering the restricted zone;

(b)

when a rest period of more than one day is foreseen at a control post during the movement through a restricted zone, the animals are protected against attacks by vectors in a vector protected establishment in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex II.

2.

Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the transit takes place:

(a)

exclusively from or through epidemiologically relevant geographical areas of the restricted zone during the bluetongue seasonally vector-free period defined in accordance with Annex V; or

(b)

from or through parts of the restricted zone demarcated as a ‘provisionally free area’ in accordance with Article 7(2a).

3.

For the animals referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the following additional wording shall be added to the corresponding health certificates F2...: ‘Insecticide/repellent treatment with … (insert name of the product) on … (insert date) in conformity with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007.’

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 456/2012 of 30 May 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance).

F2

Words in Art. 9(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 14(9); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)