# 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 29: Requirements for movement of other kept ungulates to other Member States

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

1. Operators shall only move other kept ungulates 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 other kept ungulates 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) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for infection with rabies virus, 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) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis, they come from an establishment in which infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis in other kept ungulates of listed species for this disease has not been reported during the last 42 days prior to departure;
(e) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (M. bovis, M. caprae and M. tuberculosis), they come from an establishment in which infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (M. bovis, M. caprae and M. tuberculosis) in kept animals of listed species for this disease has not been reported during the last 42 days prior to departure;
(f) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for infection with epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus, the animals come from an establishment situated in an area of at least 150 km radius around that establishment in which infection with epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus has not been reported in any establishment during the last 2 years prior to departure;
(g) the animals come from an establishment in which anthrax in ungulates has not been reported during the last 15 days prior to departure;
(h) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for surra (Trypanosoma evansi), they come from an establishment in which surra (Trypanosoma evansi) has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure, and in case they come from an establishment on which surra (Trypanosoma evansi) has been reported during the last 2 years prior to departure, following the last outbreak the affected establishment has remained under movement restriction until:
(i) the infected animals have been removed from the establishment;
and
(ii) the remaining animals on the establishment have been tested with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 3 of Annex I for surra (Trypanosoma evansi), carried out, with negative results, on samples taken at least 6 months after the infected animals have been removed from the establishment;
(i) in the case of other kept ungulates of listed species for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24), they fulfil at least one of the requirements for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24) set out in points 1 to 3 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689. This point shall not apply to other kept ungulates referred to in Article 30.
(j) the conditions set out in Articles 32 and 33 are fulfilled where applicable.
2. The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to other kept ungulates intended for slaughter as referred to in Article 31.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/688/article/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-29
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