Division 3 The requirements in relation to the facilities and equipment of hatcheries, as referred to in Article 7, shall be the following:

hatcheries must be physically and operationally separated from facilities keeping poultry or any other birds;

the following functional units and equipment must be kept separate:

1. (i)

   egg storage and grading;

2. (ii)

   egg disinfection;

3. (iii)

   pre-incubation;

4. (iv)

   incubation for hatching;

5. (v)

   sexing and vaccination of day-old chicks;

6. (vi)

   packaging of hatching eggs and day-old chicks for dispatch;

day-old chicks or hatching eggs kept at the hatchery must not come into contact with rodents and with birds outside the hatchery;

operations must be based on a one-way circuit for hatching eggs, mobile equipment and personnel;

appropriate natural or artificial lighting, air flow and temperature systems must be available;

it must be possibly to readily clean and disinfect the floors, walls and all other material or equipment at the hatchery;

appropriate equipment must be available for the cleaning and disinfection of facilities, equipment and means of transport used for the day-old chicks and hatching eggs.