Article 16 Derogations from certain requirements in relation to clinical examinations and certification prior to movement
United Kingdom
By way of derogation from Article 15(3), the period within which the official veterinarian shall carry out the clinical inspection and where relevant, the clinical examination, and issue an animal health certificate for aquaculture animals of listed species other than those referred to in Article 15(2), may be extended from a period of 72 hours to a period of 7 days prior to the date of departure from the aquaculture establishment of origin, under the following circumstances:
multiple movements of the same species of aquaculture animals occur from the same aquaculture establishment of origin to the same aquaculture establishment of destination and the movements take place not more than 7 days apart;
a documentary check of the mortality records, movement records, health and production records is made prior to the movement of each consignment, and a clinical inspection and where necessary, a clinical examination, is carried out within the period of 72 hours prior to the time of the first movement and at least every 7 days thereafter, until such time as the last of the movements referred to in point (a) have taken place;
each consignment is fully traceable.
The official veterinarian shall issue an animal health certificate as provided for in Article 216(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, for each consignment which is moved during the 7 day period between clinical inspections as referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, subject to compliance with the following conditions:
no movements of listed species have taken place to the aquaculture establishment since the last clinical inspection was carried out; and
there is no suspicion of a listed disease or emerging disease in the aquaculture establishment.