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Annex

United Kingdom

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Annexes I and III of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 are amended as follows:

  1. (1)

    Annex I is amended as follows:

    1. (a)

      In Part 1, the entry relating to Israel is replaced by the following:

      ISO code and name of third country or territoryCode of third country, territory, zone or compartmentDescription of third country, territory, zone or compartmentVeterinary certificateSpecific conditionsSpecific conditionsAvian influenza surveillance statusAvian influenza vaccination status Salmonella control status
      Model(s)Additional guaranteesClosing dateOpening date
      1234566A6B789
      ‘IL — Israel (6)IL-0Whole countrySPF
      BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP, HERXNAS5, ST1
      SRPP318.4.2015
      POU, RATXN
      WGMVIIIP318.4.2015
      EXS4
      EP’
    2. (b)

      In Part 1, the entry relating to Ukraine is replaced by the following:

      ISO code and name of third country or territoryCode of third country, territory, zone or compartmentDescription of third country, territory, zone or compartmentVeterinary certificateSpecific conditionsSpecific conditionsAvian influenza surveillance statusAvian influenza vaccination status Salmonella control status
      Model(s)Additional guaranteesClosing dateOpening date
      1234566A6B789
      ‘UA — UkraineUA-0Whole countryE, EP, POU, RAT, WGM’
    3. (c)

      Part 2 is amended as follows:

      1. (i)

        in the section on ‘Model veterinary certificates’, under the heading ‘Additional guarantees (AG)’, the following text is added:

        “X”
      2. ‘additional guarantees covering commodities certified in accordance with point 8 of Section I of Annex III and the model certificates BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP, HER, POU, RAT and E’;

      3. (ii)

        the model veterinary certificates BPP, BPR, DOC, DOR, HEP and HER are replaced by the following:

        ‘ Model veterinary certificate for breeding or productive poultry other than ratites (BPP)

        Model veterinary certificate for breeding or productive ratites (BPR)

        Model veterinary certificate for day-old chicks other than of ratites (DOC)

        Model veterinary certificate for day-old chicks of ratites (DOR)

        Model veterinary certificate for hatching eggs of poultry other than ratites (HEP)

        Model veterinary certificate for hatching eggs of ratites (HER) ’

      4. (iii)

        the model veterinary certificate SRP is replaced by the following:

        ‘ Model veterinary certificate for slaughter poultry and poultry for restocking game supplies other than ratites (SRP) ’

      5. (iv)

        the model veterinary certificates POU and RAT are replaced by the following:

        ‘ Model veterinary certificate for meat of poultry (POU)

        Model veterinary certificate for meat of farmed ratites for human consumption (RAT) ’

      6. (v)

        The model veterinary certificates E and EP are replaced by the following:

        ‘ Model veterinary certificate for eggs (E)

        Model veterinary certificate for egg products (EP) ’

  2. (2)

    In Annex III, Section I, the following point 8 is added:

    ‘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:

    1. (a)

      check the production and health records of the establishment;

    2. (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;

    3. (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 the Union:

    1. (a)

      breeding or productive poultry and breeding or productive ratites (BPP, BPR);

    2. (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);

    3. (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:

    1. (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 the Union or prior to the slaughter of the poultry and ratites;

    2. (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 the Union, 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 the Union of any of the commodities listed in points 8.2.’