Article 11 General requirements for laboratory testing for the certification of consignments of equidae, or their semen, ova or embryos intended for entry into Great BritainF8

The competent authority of the third country dispatching equidae or semen, ova or embryos of equidae, which are intended for entry into F1Great Britain shall ensure that the laboratory tests provided for in the health certificates F2, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, for glanders, dourine, equine infectious anaemia, Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis, Western and Eastern equine encephalomyelitis, Japanese encephalitis, West Nile Fever, vesicular stomatitis, equine viral arteritis and contagious equine metritis meet at least the sensitivity and specificity requirements laid down for the disease concerned in the respective Chapter of Section 2.5 of the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals, latest edition, of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

The competent authority of the third country dispatching equidae which are destined for F3Great Britain shall ensure that the laboratory tests provided for in the health certificates F4, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, for African horse sickness are carried out in accordance with F5the procedures described in Annex IV to Directive 2009/156/EC.

The competent authority of the third country dispatching equidae or semen, ova or embryos of equidae, which are destined for F6Great Britain shall ensure compliance with the following: