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►B COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of18November1985
introducingCommunitymeasuresforthecontroloffoot-and-mouthdisease
(85/511/EEC)
(OJ L 315, 26.11.1985, p. 11)
Corrected by:
►C1Corrigendum, OJ L 14, 18.1.1986, p. 19 (85/511/EEC)
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COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of18November1985
introducing Community measures for the control of foot-and-
mouthdisease
(85/511/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic
Community, and in particular Articles 43 and 100 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee(3),
Whereas one of the Community's tasks in the veterinary field is to
improve the state of health of livestock, thereby increasing the profit-ability of stockfarming;
Whereas an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease can quickly take on
epizootic proportions, causing mortality and disturbances on a scaleliable to reduce sharply the profitability of farming of pigs and rumi-nants as a whole;
Whereas action must be taken as soon as the presence of the disease is
suspected so that immediate and effective control measures can beimplemented as soon as its presence is confirmed; whereas suchmeasures must be modulated by the competent authorities to takeaccount of whether or not a country carries out a prophylactic vaccina-
tion programme on all or part of its territory; whereas, under certain
conditions, the Member States which practise such a policy mayauthorize animals having sufficent immunization protection against thefoot-and-mouthvirus to be exempted from slaugh ter;
Whereas it is necessary to prevent any spread of the disease as soon as
an outbreak occurs, by carefully monitoring movements of animals andthe use of products liable to be contaminated, and, where appropriate,by vaccination;
Whereas diagnosis of the disease and identification of the relevant
virus must be carried out under the auspices of responsible laboratoriesthe coordination of which must be ensured by a reference laboratoryappointed by the Community;
Whereas the vaccine used for emergency vaccination must be verified
bothfor efficacy and safety, withcoordination being carried out by aspecialized institute appointed by the Community; whereas, further-
more, special coordinated measures must be implemented where virus
types or variants are detected against which the vaccines usually usedin the Community do not provide sufficient protection; whereas itproves necessary, to this end, to make provision for the Member Stateswhich vaccinate to draw up multiannual vaccination plans which will
be examined and, where appropriate, be the subject of Community
coordination;
Whereas provision must be made for a procedure for close cooperation
between the Member States and the Commission;
Whereas the arrangements introduced by this Directive are of an
experimental nature and whereas they will have to be reviewed inkeeping withdevelopments in th e situation,1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 248, 22. 9. 1982, p. 3.
(2) OJ No C 242, 12. 9. 1983, p. 128.
(3) OJ No C 77, 21. 3. 1983, p. 5.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
This Directive defines the minimum Community control measures to
be applied in the event of outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, what-ever the type of virus concerned, without prejudice to the Community
provisions governing intra-Community trade.
This Directive does not affect Member States' prophylactic vaccination
policies.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive, the definitions given in Article 2 of
Directive 64/432/EEC(
1) shall apply as appropriate.
The following definitions shall also apply:
(a) ‘animal of a susceptible species’ means any domestic or wild rumi-
nant or swine present on a holding;
(b) ‘receptive animal’ means any animal of a susceptible species which
is not vaccinated, or which is vaccinated but whose immunization
cover is considered to be inadequate by the competent authority;
(c) ‘infected animal’ means any animal of a susceptible species:
— in which clinical symptoms or post-mortem lesions which may
arise from foot-and-mouthdisease h ave been ascertained,
or
— in which the presence of foot-and-mouth disease has been offi-
cially ascertained following a laboratory examination;
(d) ‘animal suspected of being infected’ means any animal of a suscep-
tible species showing clinical symptoms or post-mortem lesionswhich are such that the presence of foot-and-mouth disease mayreeasonably be suspected;
(e) ‘animal suspected of being contaminated’ means any animal of a
suspectible species which may — according to the epizootiologicalinformation collected — have been directly or indirectly exposed tothe foot-and-mouth virus.
Article 3
Member States shall ensure that the presence, or suspected presence, of
foot-and-mouthdisease is compulsorily and immediately notifiable tothe competent authority, in accordance with Directive 82/894/EEC(
2).
Article 4
1. Member States shall ensure that, where a holding contains one or
more animals suspected of being infected or of being contaminated
withfoot-and-mouthdisease, official means of investigation to confirm
or rule out the presence of the disease are set in motion immediatelyand, in particular, that the official veterinarian takes the necessarysamples, or has them taken, for laboratory examination.
As soon as the suspected infection is notified, the competent authority
shall have the holding placed under official surveillance and shall inparticular order that:
— a census be made of all categories of animals of susceptible species
and that, in respect of each of these categories, the number ofanimals already dead, infected or liable to be infected or contami-nated be recorded; the census must be kept up to date to take
account of animals born or dying during the period of suspicion;
the information in the census must be produced on request andmay be checked at each visit;1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 3
(1) OJ No 121, 29. 7. 1964, p. 1977/64.
(2) OJ No L 378, 31. 12. 1982, p. 58.
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— all animals of susceptible species on the holding be kept in their
living quarters or some other place where they can be isolated;
— no animals of susceptible species enter or leave the holding;— no animals of other species enter or leave the holding without the
authorization of the competent authority;
— all movement from the holding of meat or carcases of animals of
susceptible species or of animal feed, utensils, objects or othersubstance, suchas wool or waste or rejected matter, liable totransmit foot-and-mouth disease be prohibited, unless authorizedby the competent authority;
— the movement of milk from the holding be prohibited; in the event
of difficulties in storing the milk on the holding, the competent
authority may authorize the milk to be moved from the holding
under veterinary supervision to a treatment establishment in orderthat it may be given heat treatment ensuring the destruction of thefoot-and-mouthvirus;
— the movement of persons to or from the holding be made subject to
authorization by the competent authority;
— the entry or exit of vehicles to or from the holding be made subject
to authorization by the competent authority which shall lay downthe conditions necessary in order to avoid propagation of the foot-and-mouthvirus;
— appropriate means of disinfection be used at the entrances and exits
of buildings housing animals of susceptible species and of theholding itself;
— an epizootiological inquiry be carried out in accordance withArti-
cles 7 and 8.
2. The competent authority may extend the measures provided for in
paragraph 1 to adjoining holdings should their location, their configura-
tion, or contacts with animals from the holding where the disease issuspected give reason to suspect possible contamination.
3. The measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not be with-
drawn until the suspicion of foot-and-mouth disease has been officiallyruled out.
Article 5
As soon as it has been confirmed that one or more of the animals
defined in Article 2 (c) are on a holding, the competent authority shallintroduce the following measures:
1) the official veterinarian takes adequate samples or has them taken
for examination by the laboratory referred to in Annex I, where
these samples and examinations have not been taken or carried outduring the period of suspicion in accordance with the first subpara-graphof Article 4 (1);
2) in addition to the measures listed in Article 4 (1), the following
measures are taken without delay:
(a) in Member States or regions where vaccination is prohibited:
— all animals of susceptible species on the holding shall be
slaughtered on the spot under official supervision in such away as to avoid all risk of spreading the foot-and-mouth
virus;
— after being slaughtered, the aforementioned animals shall be
destroyed under official supervision in such a way that there
is no risk of spreading the foot-and-mouth virus;
— meat of animals of susceptible species coming from the
holding and slaughtered during the period between the prob-
able introduction of the disease to the holding and theimplementation of official measures shall, wherever possible,be traced and destroyed under official supervision in suchaway as to avoid any risk of spreading the foot-and-mouth
virus;
— the carcases of animals of susceptible species which have
died on the holding shall be destroyed under official super-1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 4
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vision in sucha way as to avoid any risk of spreading th e
foot-and-mouthvirus;
— any substance referred to in Article 4 (1), seond subpara-
graph, fifth indent shall be destroyed or treated in such away as to ensure the destruction of any foot-and-mouth viruspresent; all treatment must be carried out in accordance withthe instructions of the official veterinarian;
— milk and milk products shall be destroyed in such a way as
to avoid any risk of spreading the foot-and-mouth virus;
— after elimination of the animals of susceptible species and of
the substances referred to in Article 4 (1), second subpara-graph, fifth indent, the buildings used for housing, their
surroundings and the vehicles used for their transport and
all equipment likely to be contaminated shall be cleanedand disinfected in accordance withArticle 10;
— no animals of susceptible species shall be reintroduced to the
holding until at least 21 days after completion of the
cleaning and disinfection operations carried out in accor-
dance withArticle 10;
— an epizootiological inquiry shall be carried out in accordance
withArticles 7 and 8;
(b) in the Member States or regions where a vaccination policy is
organized in compliance withth e provisions of Article 14:
(i) — all animals of susceptible species on the holding shall
be slaughtered and destroyed under official supervision.
When the animals are slaughtered and destroyed,
Member States shall take the measures necessary toavoid any risk of the foot-and-mouth virus persistingand being spread and any harmful consequence for theenvironment; in particular when slaughtering is not
carried out on the spot, the animals shall be transported
in specially equipped vehicles to avoid any risk ofspreading the foot-and-mouth virus;
— when the type, sub-type or variant of the foot-and-
mouth virus has been identified or when the epidemio-
logical information and data make it possible to
ascertain that the vaccines used provide immunizationcover valid for the type of virus in question, MemberStates may:
— restrict the slaughtering and destruction to receptive
animals;
— authorize meat and milk from animals not infected
or not suspected of being infected to be given appro-
priate heat treatment under veterinary supervision;
(ii) the measures provided for in (i) shall be accompanied by
vaccination or re-vaccination of the remaining animals inaccordance withArticle 13 (1);
(iii) the measures provided for under the third, fourth and fifth
indents of (a) shall apply by analogy as well as, except inthe case of the heat treatment referred to in (i), themeasures provided for in the sixth indent of (a).
3) the provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply in the case of appear-
ance of a secondary source which is linked epidemiologically with a
primary source for which samples have already been taken;
4. the competent authority may extend the measures provided for in
paragraph 1 to adjoining holdings should their location, their config-
uration, or contacts with animals from the holding where the diseasehas been recorded give reason to suspect possible contamination.
Article 6
1. In the case of holdings which consist of two or more separate
production units, the competent authority may derogate from therequirements of Article 5 (2) (a), first and second indents and (2) (b)(i) as regards healthy production units of a holding which is infected,1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 5
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provided that the official veterinarian has confirmed that the structure
and size of these units and the operations carried out there are suchthat they are completely separate as regards housing, keeping and
feeding, so that the virus cannot spread from one to another.
The same measures and the possibility of derogating from the require-
ments of the sixth indent of Article 5 (2) (a) may be extended to
holdings producing milk, provided that, in addition, milking in each
unit is carried out quite separately.
2. Where recourse is had to paragraph 1, the Member States shall
lay down detailed rules for applying it in the light of the health guar-
antees offered. They shall notify the Commission thereof.
3. It may be decided, in accordance withth e procedure laid down in
Article 16, that the measures laid down in paragraph 2 shall be
amended in order to ensure the coordination thereof with those adopted
by the Member States.
Article 7
The epizootiological inquiry shall deal with:
— the length of time during which the foot-and-mouth disease may
have existed on the holding before being notified or suspected;
— the possible origin of the foot-and-mouth disease on the holding
and the identification of other holdings on which there are anmalsof susceptible species which may have become infected or contami-
nated from the same source;
— the movement of persons, vehicles and substances referred to in
Article 4 (1), second subparagraph, fifth indent, likely to havecarried the foot-and-mouth virus to or from the holdings in ques-
tion.
Article 8
1. (a) Where the official veterinarian finds, or considers on the basis
of confirmed data, that foot-and-mouth disease could have been
introduced from other holdings on to the holding referred to inArticle 4, or from the latter holding on to other holdings as aresult of the movement of persons, animals or vehicles or inany other way, those other holdings shall be placed under offi-
cial surveillance in accordance withArticle 4 and th is
surveillance shall not be lifted until the suspected presence offoot-and-mouth disease on the holding referred to in Article 4has been officially ruled out;
(b) where the official veterinarian finds, or considers on the basis of
confirmed data, that foot-and-mouth disease could have beenintroduced on to the holding referred to in Article 5 from other
holdings as a result of the movement of persons, animals or
vehicles or in any other way, those other holdings shall beplaced under official surveillance in accordance withArticle 4;
(c) where the official veterinarian finds, or considers on the basis of
confirmed data, that foot-and-mouth disease could have beenintroduced from the holding referred to in Article 5 on to otherholdings as a result of the movement of persons, animals or
vehicles or in any other way, those other holdings shall become
subject to the provisions of Article 4.
2. When a holding holding has been subject to the provisions of
paragraph 1, the competent authority shall prohibit removal of animals
from the holding other than for transport directly to a slaughterhouse
under official supervision for the purpose of emergency slaughterduring a 15-day period in the case of holdings referred to in 1 (a) and(b) and a 21-day period in the case of holdings referred to in 1 (c)respectively. Prior to granting such authorization, the official veteri-
narian must have carried out an examination of the herd and
confirmed that none of the animals is suspected of being infected.
3. Where it considers that conditions permit, the competent authority
may limit the measures provided for in paragraph 1 (a) and (b) to a1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 6
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part of the holding and the animals contained therein, provided that the
animals there have been housed, kept and fed completely separately.
Article 9
1. Member States shall ensure that, once the diagnosis of foot-and-
mouth disease has been officially confirmed, the competent authorityestablishes, around the infected holding, a protection zone based on aminimum radius of 3 km and a surveillance zone based on a minimum
radius of 10 km. The establishment of zones must take account of
natural boundaries and supervision facilities.
2. (a) The following measures shall be applied in the protection zones:
— a census of all the holdings having animals of susceptible
species and the animals shall be taken; these holdings shallbe visited periodically;
— the movement of animals of susceptible species on public or
private roads, excluding the service roads of holdings, shallbe prohibited;
— animals of susceptible species may not be removed during
the first 15 days from the holding on which they are keptexcept to be transported directly under official supervisionfor the purpose of emergency slaughter to a slaughterhouselocated in that zone or, if that zone has no slaughterhouse
under veterinary supervision, to a slaughterhouse designated
by the competent authority. Such movement may be author-ized by the competent authority only after examination bythe official veterinarian of all the animals of susceptiblespecies on the holding has ruled out the presence ofsuspected animals;
— itinerant service for breeding shall be prohibited;— artificial insemination shall be prohibited during the first 15
days except where it is carried out by the farmer with spermthat is on the farm or with sperm delivered directly by aninsemination centre;
— fairs, markets, shows or other gatherings of susceptible
animals, including collection and distribution, shall beprohibited;
— without prejudice to the case provided for in the second
sentence of the third indent, the transport of animals ofsusceptible species shall be prohibited, except for transit bymajor highways or mainline railways.
(b) the measures applied in the protection zone shall be maintained
for at least 15 days after elimination of all the animals referred
to in Article 5 from the holding and the carrying out on thatholding of preliminary cleaning and disinfection operations inaccordance withArticle 10. However, th e measures describedin paragraph 3 for the surveillance zone shall remain in forcein the protection zone for the period provided for in paragraph
3 (b).
3. (a) The following measures shall be applied in the surveillance
zone:
— a census shall be taken of all holdings having animals of
susceptible species;
— the movement of animals of susceptible species on public
roads shall be prohibited except for the purpose of leadingthem to pasture;
— the transport of animals of susceptible species within the
surveillance zone shall be subject to the authorization of thecompetent authority;
— the animals may not be removed from the surveillance zone
during the first 15 days. Between the 15th day and the 30thday the animals may not be removed from the said zoneexcept to be transported under official supervision directlyto a slaughterhouse for the purpose of emergency slaughter.Such transport may be authorized by the competent authority1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 7
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only after the official veterinarian has carried out an exami-
nation of all the animals concerned and confirmed that noneof the animals is suspected of being infected;
— itinerant service for breeding shall be prohibited;
— fairs, markets, shows and other gatherings of susceptible
animals shall be prohibited.
b) The measures in the surveillance zone shall be kept in force for
at least 30 days after the elimination of all the animals referredto in Article 5 from the holding and the carrying out on thatholding of preliminary cleaning and disinfection operations inaccordance withArticle 10.
Article 10
Member States shall ensure that:
— the disinfectants to be used and their concentrations are officially
approved by the competent authority;
— the cleaning and disinfection operations are carried out under offi-
cial supervision, in accordance with the instructions given by theofficial veterinarian.
Article 11
1. Member States shall ensure that:
— laboratory testing to detect the presence of foot-and-mouth diesease
are carried out by a national laboratory indicated in the Annexwhich may be amended or supplemented in accordance with theprocedure laid down in Article 17. This laboratory testing should,if necessary and especially on the first appearance of the disease,
show the type, sub-type or, where appropriate, the variant of the
relevant virus which may be confirmed, if necessary, be a referencelaboratory designated by the Community;
— one of the national laboratories indicated in Annex I is responsible
for coordinating standards and methods of diagnosis in each
Member State;
— the national laboratories referred to in the first indent liaise with a
reference laboratory designated by the Community.
2. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission, shall designate, before 1 January 1987, the reference
laboratory referred to in paragraph1 and sh all determine its powers and
the detailed rules for applying the second indent of paragraph 1.
Article 12
Member States shall ensure that:
— when animals of susceptible species are moved out of the holding
on which they are kept, they are identified in such a way as toenable their holding of origin, or the holding from which they
have come, and their movements to be traced rapidly. However,
for certain categories of animals and without prejudice to Article13 of Council Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January 1980 introdu-cing Community measures for the control of classical swinefever(
1), as last amended by Directive 84/645/EEC(2), the compe-
tent authority may, in certain circumstances and having regard to
the health situation, authorize other ways of rapidly tracing their
holding of origin, or the holding from which they have come, andtheir movements. The arrangements for identifying the animals orfor tracing the holding of origin shall be determined by the compe-tent authority;
— the owner or keeper of the animals is required to supply the compe-
tent authority, on request by that authority, with informationconcerning animals entering or leaving his holding;1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 8
(1) OJ No L 47, 21. 2. 1980, p. 11.
(2) OJ No L 339, 27. 12. 1984, p. 33.
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— all persons engaged in the transport or marketing of animals of
susceptible species are able to supply the competent authority withinformation concerning the movements of animals which they have
transported or marketed and to furnishall th e details concerning
suchinformation.
Article 13
1. When foot-and-mouth is diagnosed on a holding, the measures to
control the disease may be supplemented by the vaccination of animalsof susceptible species on holdings threatened with contamination in aterritorial area specified by the competent authority.
2. In the case referred to in paragraph 1, Member States shall ensure
that:
(a) without prejudice to the exception provided for in Article 5 (2) (b)
(i), second indent, and national arrangements where such arrange-ments provide for the prophylactic vaccination against foot-and-mouthdisease of any or all of th e animals of susceptible species
on part or all of the territory, the vaccination or re-vaccination of
animals of susceptible species on the holdings referred to in Article4 is prohibited;
(b) serum injection is prohibited;
(c) the type of anti-foot-and-mouth disease vaccine and its method of
use comply withth e general recommendations decided on in accor-dance withth e procedure in Article 16;
(d) the vaccine used is authorized by the competent authority on the
basis of the verification by national laboratories the activity of
which is coordinated by the institute desginated in accordance
withArticle 14 (3);
(e) any vaccine imported from a third country satisfies the require-
ments laid down in (c) and is checked as indicated in (d).
The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the
Commission, shall adopt the procedure for coordinating standards and
checking vaccines on the territory of the Community.
3. In the event of the appearance of types, sub-types or variants of
foot-and-mouth virus against which the vaccines usually used provide
no protection or insufficient protection, the Member State concernedshall immediately inform the Commission and the other MemberStates, stating what emergency measures it considers necessary for theadaptation of vaccine formulae and their use.
4. If, in the light of the national measures referred to above, the
adoption of Community measures proves necessary, suchmeasuresshall be decided on by the procedure provided for in Article 16.
Article 14
1. Member States which authorize vaccination against foot-and-
mouth disease shall draw up a multiannual vaccination plan, which
they shall submit to the Commission and the other Member Stateswithin the Standing Veterinary Committee.
This plan must specify:
(i) — the frequency of the vaccination,
— the conditions and procedure for the production and checking of
vaccines to be used in the various possible circumstances ofoutbreaks of foot-and-mouthdisease,
— the protective ‘standard’ rating,
— the cross-immunity controls with variants,— the species and categories of animals which are to be subject to
the vaccination programme,
— the procedures for supervision of the distribution, conservation,
storage and use of vaccines;
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— the characteristics and composition of each vaccine used.
2. The coordination of the measures adopted by Member States as
part of their national anti-foot-and-mouth plans, and provided for inparagraph 1 (i), shall be decided upon according to the procedureprovided for in Article 16, witha view to ensuring th eir effectiveness.
3. Before 1 January 1987 the Council, acting by a qualified majority
on a proposal from the Commission, shall designate the laboratoryreferred to in Article 13 and shall determine its powers together withthose of the institute responsible for vaccine and cross-immunity
checks.
4. Before 1 January 1989 the Commission shall submit to the
Council a report accompanied, where appropriate, by proposals on the
rules relating to the production and distribution of anti-foot-and-mouth
disease vaccines in the Community, together with proposals on thesetting up of a Community reserve of anti-foot-and-mouthdiseasevaccines.
Article 15
If foot-and-mouthdisease assumes alarming proportions on th e territory
of a Member State and, despite the measures taken, particularly in
application of Article 13, the epizootic becomes extensive and develops
widely outside the limits of the vaccinated zone, a Member State whichdoes not practise prophylactic vaccination on all or part of its territorymay carry out suchvaccination on all or part of its territory and applythe measures laid down in Article 5 (2) (b). It shall inform theCommission and the other Member States of this action.
Article 16
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
the matter shall be referred without delay to the Standing VeterinaryCommittee set up by Decision 68/361/EEC(
1) (hereinafter referred to
as ‘the Committee’) by the committee chairman, either on his owninitiative or at the request of a Member State.
2. The votes of the Member States shall be weighted as laid down in
Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall not vote.
3. The representative of the Commission shall submit a draft of the
measures to be adopted. The committee shall deliver its opinion onthese measures within two days. Opinions shall be delivered by amajority of 54 votes.
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures and shall implement
them immediately, where they are in accordance with the opinion ofthe committee. Where they are not in accordance with the opinion ofthe committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall
without delay submit to the Council a proposal on the measures to be
taken. The Council shall adopt the measures by a qualified majority.
If the Council has not adopted any measures within 15 days of the date
on which the matter is referred to it, the Commission shall adopt the
proposed measures and shall implement them immediately unless theCouncil has voted against the said measures by a simple majority.
Article 17
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
the matter shall be referred to the committee without delay by itschairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a MemberState.
2. Within the committee the votes of the Member States shall be
weighted as laid down in Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairmanshall not vote.1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 10
(1) OJ No 255, 18. 10. 1968, p. 23.
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3. The representative of the Commission shall submit a draft of the
measures to be adopted. The committee shall deliver its opinion by adate which the chairman may set in the light of the urgency of the
matters submitted for examination. Opinions shall be delivered by a
majority of 54 votes.
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures and shall implement
them immediately, where they are in accordance with the opinion ofthe committee. Where they are not in accordance with the opinion ofthe committee, or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall
without delay submit to the Council a proposal on the measures to be
taken. The Council shall adopt the measures by a qualified majority.
If the Council has not adopted any measures within three months of the
date on which the matter is referred to it, the Commission shall adoptthe proposed measures and shall implement them immediately unlessthe Council has voted against the said measures by a simple majority.
Article 18
On the basis of a report from the Commission on the experience gained
in controlling foot-and-mouthdisease, accompanied by proposals wh ere
appropriate, the Council shall review the situation by 1 January 1990,
with a view to further harmonization.
Article 19
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and admin-
istrative provisions necessary to comply withth is Directive by 1January 1987 at the latest.
Article 20
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.1985L0511 — EN — 26.11.1985 — 000.001 — 11
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ANNEX
NATIONALLABORATORIESDEALINGWITHFOOT-AND-MOUTHDISEASE
BELGIUM AND LUXEMBOURG: Institut national de recherches vétérinaires, Groeselen-
berg 99, 1180 Bruxelles.
DENMARK: Statens veterinære institut for Virusforskning, Lind-
holm.
ITALY: Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale della Lombardia e
dell'Emilia Romagna, Brescia.
Istituto superiore della Sanità, Roma.
UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND: Animal Virus ResearchInstitute, Pirbrigh t, Woking,
Surrey.
FRANCE: Laboratoire national de pathologie bovine, Lyon.
Laboratoire central de recherche vétérinaire d'Alfort,
Maisons-Alfort.
GREECE: Ινστιτούτο Αφθώδους Πυρετού, Αγία Παρασκευή
Αττικής.
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere,
Tübingen.
NETHERLANDS: Centraal Diergeneeskundig Instituut, Lelystad.
SPAIN: Laboratorio Central de Sanidad Animal, Madrid.PORTUGAL: Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária,
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