0
The disease situation in Bulgaria makes it necessary to reinforce the control measures for foot-and-mouth disease taken by the competent authorities in Bulgaria.
It is appropriate to define as a permanent measure the high and low risk areas in the affected Member State and to provide for a prohibition on the dispatch of susceptible animals from the high and low risk areas and on the dispatch of products derived from susceptible animals from the high risk area. The Decision should also provide for the rules applicable to the dispatch from those areas of safe products that either had been produced before the restrictions, from raw material sourced from outside the restricted areas or that had undergone a treatment proven effective in inactivating possible foot-and-mouth disease virus.
derived from animals of susceptible species coming from or obtained from animals originating in the high risk areas listed in Annex I and should not affect transit through these areas of such products coming from or obtained from animals originating in other areas.
No live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates shall move between the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II.
No live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates shall be dispatched from or moved through the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II.
By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of Bulgaria may authorise the transport of pigs from holdings outside the surveillance zone established in accordance with Article 21 of Directive 2003/85/EC for immediate slaughter at designated slaughterhouses situated in the areas listed in Annex II under the following conditions:
By way of derogation from paragraph 2, the competent authority of Bulgaria may authorise the transport of pigs from holdings outside the surveillance zone established in accordance with Article 21 of Directive 2003/85/EC for immediate slaughter at designated slaughterhouses situated in the areas listed in Annex II under the following conditions:
(a) the pigs originate from holdings in the area listed in Annex I from which consignments of fresh pigmeat and meat preparations and meat products consisting of, or containing meat of those pigs may be dispatched in accordance with Article 6 of Decision 2008/855/EC.
The central veterinary authority of Bulgaria shall communicate to the other Member States and to the Commission the list of holdings which they have approved for the purpose of application of this paragraph;
(b) during the 21 days prior to the date of transport to the slaughterhouse, the animals have remained under the supervision of the competent veterinary authority on a single holding which is situated in the centre of a circle around the holding of at least 10 km radius, where there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease during at least 30 days prior to the date of loading;
(c) no animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease have been introduced into the holding referred to in the introductory sentence of this paragraph during the 21 days prior to the date of loading, except in the case of pigs coming from a supplying holding which complies with the conditions laid down in point (b), in which case the period of 21 days may be reduced to 7 days;
(d) the transport of pigs is only authorised after the satisfactory completion of the measures provided for in Article 22(2) of Directive 2003/85/EC.
Bulgaria shall not dispatch meats of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates coming from or obtained from animals originating in the areas listed in Annex I.
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:019:0020:0033:EN:PDF
