Division 1 FROM A THIRD COUNTRY, TERRITORY OR ZONE THEREOF WHICH IS FREE FROM FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE AND WHERE VACCINATION AGAINST FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE STRAINS A, O OR C IS PRACTISED

The competent authority of the third country or territory of origin must provide supplementary information to guarantee the absence of foot and mouth disease virus in fresh meat and compliance with the following requirements:

1. (a)

   a vaccination programme against foot and mouth disease is carried out in kept bovine animals and controlled by the competent authority of the third country or territory of origin;

2. (b)

   the fresh meat is obtained from either:

   1. (i)

      bovine, ovine and caprine animals that originate from establishments in and around which, in an area with a 25 kilometres radius, foot and mouth disease or rinderpest have not been reported during the 60 days prior to the date of dispatch to the slaughterhouse;

      or

   2. (ii)

      kept ungulates of listed species other than bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine that originate from establishments in and around which in an area of 50 kilometres radius, foot and mouth disease or rinderpest have not been reported during the 90 days prior to the date of dispatch to the slaughterhouse;

      or

   3. (iii)

      wild ungulates that comply with the requirements laid down in Article 138;

3. (c)

   the meat is de-boned fresh meat other than offal that was obtained from carcasses:

   1. (i)

      in which the main accessible lymph nodes have been removed;

   2. (ii)

      which have been submitted to maturation at a temperature above +2 °C for at least 24 hours before the bones were removed;

   3. (iii)

      in which the pH value of the meat was below 6,0 when tested electronically in the middle of the longissimus-dorsi muscle after maturation and before de-boning.