# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (Text with EEA relevance), Article 19: Requirements for movements of kept porcine animals to other Member States

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

1. Operators shall only move kept porcine animals to another Member State when the following requirements are fulfilled:
(a) the animals have been continuously resident in the establishment for at least 30 days prior to departure, or since birth, if they are younger than 30 days of age, and during this period they have not been in contact with kept porcine animals of a lower health status or subject to movement restrictions for animal health reasons, or with kept animals coming from an establishment which did not fulfil the requirements set out in point (b);
(b) any animals entering the Union from a third country or territory during the last 30 days prior to the departure of the animals referred to in point (a), and introduced into the establishment where those animals were resident, are kept separate so as to prevent direct and indirect contact with all other animals on that establishment;
(c) the animals come from an establishment in which infection with rabies virus in kept terrestrial animals has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure;
(d) the animals come from an establishment in which infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure;
(e) the animals come from an establishment in which anthrax in ungulates has not been reported during the last 15 days prior to departure;
(f) the animals come from an establishment in which infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis in porcine animals has not been reported during the last 42 days prior to departure, and in which during at least the last 12 months prior to departure
either
(i) biosecurity and risk mitigating measures, including housing conditions and feeding systems, have been applied as necessary to prevent transmission of infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis from wild animals of listed species for that disease to porcine animals kept on the establishment, and only porcine animals from establishments applying equivalent biosecurity and risk mitigating measures have been introduced;
or
(ii) surveillance for infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis has been carried out on the porcine animals kept on the establishment in accordance with point 1 and point 2 of Annex III during at least the last 12 months prior to departure, and during this period
only porcine animals from establishments applying the measures provided for in point (i) or in this point have been introduced in the establishment referred to in point (a);
in case infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis has been reported in porcine animals kept on the establishment, measures were taken in accordance with point 3 of Annex III.
2. The provisions in paragraph 1 shall not apply to kept porcine animals intended for slaughter as referred to in Article 21.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/688/article/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-19
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