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Article 65 Special rules for movement of travelling circuses and animal acts to other Member States

United Kingdom

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1.

Operators of travelling circuses and animal acts shall only move their circuses and animal acts to another Member State when the following requirements are fulfilled:

(a)

they provide the competent authority in the Member State where the travelling circus or animal act is situated with an itinerary of their intended movement to another Member State at least 10 working days before departure;

(b)

the movement document referred to in Article 77 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 accompanying all animals to be moved is duly updated,

and

  1. (i)

    the individual identification document for each dog, cat and ferret to be moved, referred to in Article 71 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035, is duly completed with the information referred to in Article 53(b)(i) and (ii);

  2. (ii)

    the identification document for the group of kept birds to be moved, referred to in Article 79 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035, is duly updated.

(c)

during the last 12 months prior to departure:

  1. (i)

    bovine, ovine, caprine, camelid and cervid animals have been subjected to a test for infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 1 of Annex I, with negative results;

  2. (ii)

    bovine, caprine and cervid animals have been subjected to a test for infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (M. bovis, M. caprae and M. tuberculosis) with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 1 of Annex I, with negative results;

  3. (iii)

    pigeons have been vaccinated against infection with the Newcastle disease virus;

(d)

all the animals of travelling circuses and animal acts were inspected by the official veterinarian during the period of 10 working days prior to departure of the travelling circus and animal act and were found clinically healthy for the listed diseases as applied to listed species or to categories of animals.

2.

Operators of travelling circuses and animal acts shall only move kept animals belonging to the families of Antilocapridae, Bovidae, Camelidae, Cervidae, Giraffidae, Moschidae or Tragulidae to another Member State or zone thereof in compliance with 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.

3.

By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of the Member State of origin may authorise the movement of such animals which do not fulfil at least one of the requirements laid down in points 1 to 3 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 to another Member State or zone thereof

(a)

with a disease-free status or with an approved eradication programme for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24), if the Member State of destination has informed the Commission and the other Member States that such movements are authorised under the conditions referred to in Article 43(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689;

or

(b)

without a disease-free status and without an approved eradication programme for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24), if the Member State of destination has informed the Commission and the other Member States that such movements are authorised. If the Member State of destination sets conditions for the authorisation of such movement, those conditions must be any one of the conditions referred to in points 5 to 8 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689.