Chapter I Additional animal health requirements for bovine animals from which semen is collected, and concerning quarantine and laboratory or other tests for those animals

United Kingdom

1. 1For all bovine animals admitted to a semen collection centre, the following requirements shall apply:
2. 2All bovine animals kept at a semen collection centre shall be subjected at least once a year to the following tests (compulsory routine tests), with negative results:
3. 3If any of the tests referred to in point 2 prove positive, the animal shall be isolated and the semen collected from it since the last negative test shall not be moved to another Member State, with the exception, for bovine viral diarrhoea, of semen from every ejaculate which has been tested negative for either bovine viral diarrhoea virus or virus genome.