# Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance), Division I: Before import into Great Britain

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

Methods for standardisation of materials and procedures for examination, sampling and testing for:
1..Avian influenza
Diagnostic manual for avian influenza as laid down in Commission Decision 2006/437/EC; or
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).
2..Newcastle disease
Annex III to Council Directive 92/66/EEC; or
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE);
Where Article 12 of Directive 2009/158/EC (to be read as if for “ Community legislation ” in point (d) there were substituted “ relevant legislation in Great Britain ”, and as if paragraph 2 were omitted) applies, the sampling and testing methods must comply with the methods described in Annexes to Commission Decision 92/340/EEC.
3..Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum
Chapter III of Annex II to Directive 2009/158/EC; or
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).
4.. Salmonella arizonae
Chapter III of Annex II to Directive 2009/158/EC; or
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).
5..Mycoplasma gallisepticum
Chapter III of Annex II to Directive 2009/158/EC; or
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for animal Health (OIE).
6..Mycoplasma meleagridis
Chapter III of Annex II to Directive 2009/158/EC.
7.. Salmonella of public health significance
Sampling shall be carried out in accordance with the sampling protocol laid down in point 2.2 of the Annex to Commission Regulation (EU) No 200/2010.
The detection method recommended by the EU reference laboratory (EURL) for salmonella in Bilthoven, the Netherlands, or an equivalent method shall be used. That method is described in the current version of Annex D of ISO 6579 (2002): ‘Detection of Salmonella spp. in animal faeces and in samples of the primary production stage’. For that detection method, a semi-solid medium (modified semi-solid Rappaport-Vassiladis medium, MSRV) is used as the single selective enrichment medium.
Serotyping shall be carried out following the Kauffmann-White scheme or an equivalent method.
8..Additional guarantees (X) in relation to certain third countries not free from Newcastle disease
8.1.In establishments referred to in point 8.2, the official veterinarian must:
(a)check the production and health records of the establishment;
(b)carry out a clinical inspection in each production unit, including an evaluation of its clinical history and clinical examinations of poultry — in particular of those that appear sick — in each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended;
(c)sample at least 60 tracheal or oropharyngeal and 60 cloacal swabs for laboratory investigations to be performed for checking the presence of Newcastle disease virus from poultry and ratites from each production unit from which dispatch referred to in point 8.2 is intended; if the number of birds present in that epidemiological unit is smaller than 60, swabs must be taken from all birds. In case of products referred to in point 8.2(c) this sampling may also take place at the slaughterhouse.
8.2.Point 8.1 applies in establishments from which it is intended to dispatch to Great Britain:
(a)breeding or productive poultry and breeding or productive ratites (BPP, BPR);
(b)day-old chicks of poultry, day-old chicks of ratites, hatching eggs of poultry or ratites and eggs for consumption (DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, E);
(c)meat obtained from poultry and ratites kept on such holdings (POU, RAT).
8.3.The procedures provided for in point 8.1 must be carried out:
(a)for the commodities referred to in points (a) and (c) of point 8.2, within not more than 72 hours prior to dispatch to Great Britain or prior to the slaughter of the poultry and ratites;
(b)for the commodities referred to in point (b) of point 8.2, at intervals of 15 days or in case of infrequent dispatch to Great Britain, not more than seven days before collection of the hatching eggs.
8.4.The procedures referred to in point 8.1 must have a favorable outcome and the laboratory investigations referred to above must be performed in an official laboratory, give negative results and be available before dispatch to Great Britain of any of the commodities listed in points 8.2.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/798/annex/III/division/I (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-798/annex-III/division-I
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