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►B COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of21December 1982
onthenotificationofanimaldiseaseswithintheCommunity
(82/894/EEC)
(OJ L 378, 31.12.1982, p. 58)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Regulation (EEC) No 3768/85 of 20 December 1985 L 362 8 31.12.1985
►M2Commission Decision 89/162/EEC of 10 February 1989 L 61 48 4.3.1989
►M3Commission Decision 90/134/EEC of 6 March 1990 L 76 23 22.3.1990
►M4Commission Decision 92/450/EEC of 30 July 1992 L 248 77 28.8.1992
►M5Commission Decision 98/12/EC of 15 December 1997 L 4 63 8.1.1998
►M6Commission Decision 2000/556/EC of 7 September 2000 L 235 27 19.9.2000
►M7Commission Decision 2002/788/EC of 10 October 2002 L 274 33 11.10.2002
Amended by:
►A1Act of Accession of Austria, Sweden and Finland C241 21 29.8.1994
(adapted by Council Decision 95/1/EC, Euratom, ECSC) L 1 1 1.1.1995
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COUNCILDIRECTIVE
of21December 1982
onthenotificationofanimaldiseaseswithintheCommunity
(82/894/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,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament(1),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee(2),
Whereas the Community has issued regulations in respect of the health
requirements for intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine,fresh meat, fresh poultry meat and meat products;
Whereas the appearance or presence of certain contagious animal
diseases presents a risk to the Community herd, notably by their spreadas a result of intra-Community trade; whereas rapid and accurate infor-mation is essential for the application of the various protection
measures provided for in Community regulations;
Whereas it is for each Member State to notify each other Member State
and the Commission of the outbreak and disappearance of certainanimal diseases on its territory, in accordance with Article 9 of Council
Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on animal health problems
affecting intra-Community trade on bovine animals and swine(
3), as
last amended by Council Directive 80/1274/EEC(4); Article 11 of
Council Directive 71/118/EEC of 15 February 1971 dealing with healthproblems affecting trade in fresh poultrymeat(
5), as last amended by
Council Directive 80/216/EEC(6); Article 7 of Council Directive 72/
461/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health problems affecting intra-
Community trade in fresh meat(7), as last amended by Council Direc-
tive 80/1099/EEC(8) and Article 7 of Council Directive 80/215/EEC of
22 January 1980 on animal health problems affecting intra-Communitytrade in meat products(
9), as last amended by Council Directive 80/
1100/EEC(10);
Whereas the method of notification and the diseases to be notified
require to be specifically laid down; whereas, in particular, there shouldbe a periodic review of the disease situation in each Member State;
Whereas, in the light of the experience gained from the aforesaid noti-
fication, adaptation to technical needs will be in line with a procedurecalling for close cooperation between the Member States and the
Commission,1982L0894 — EN — 11.10.2002 — 008.001 — 2
(1) Opinion delivered on 12/13 April 1982 (not yet published in the Official
Journal).
(2) OJ No C 112, 3. 5. 1982, p. 4.
(3) OJ No 121, 29. 7. 1964, p. 1977/64.
(4) OJ No L 375, 31. 12. 1980, p. 75.
(5) OJ No L 55, 8. 3. 1971, p. 23.
(6) OJ No L 47, 21. 2. 1980, p. 8.
(7) OJ No L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 24.
(8) OJ No L 325, 1. 12. 1980, p. 14.
(9) OJ No L 47, 21. 2. 1980, p. 4.
(10) OJ No L 325, 1. 12. 1980, p. 16.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
1. This Directive refers to the notification of:
— outbreaks of any of the diseases listed in Annex I,
— removal — after eradication of the last outbreak — of restrictions
in relation to the outbreak of any diseases listed in Annex I.
2. This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the particular
provisions for information in respect of the harmonization of eradica-
tion and/or prophylaxis of animal disease.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive:
(a) ‘holding’ means any establishment (agricultural or other) situated
in the territory of a Member State, in which animals are reared orkept;
(b) ‘case’ means the official confirmation of any of the dieseases listed
in Annex I in any animal or carcase;
(c) ‘outbreak’ means the holding or place situated in the territory of
the Community where animals are assembled and where one ormore cases has or have been officially confirmed;
(d) ‘primary outbreak’ means an outbrake not epizootiologically linked
with a previous outbreak in the same region of a Member State asdefined in Article 2 of Directive 64/432/EEC or the first outbreak
in a different region of the same Member State.
Article 3
1. Each Member State shall notify directly to both the Commission
and the other Member States within 24 hours:
— the primary outbreak of any of the diseases listed in Annex I which
is confirmed in its territory;
— the removal — after the eradication of the last outbreak — of
restrictions from its territory in relation to the outbreak of any ofthe diseases listed in Annex I;
2. The notifications referred to in paragraph 1 shall include the
information featured in Annex II and shall be communicated by telex.
3. In the case of classical swine fever, the information provided
under Council Directive 80/217/EEC of 22 January 1980 introducingCommunity measures for the control of classical swine fever(
1), as
last amended by Directive 80/1274/EEC(2), shall be considered to be
sufficient.
Article 4
1. Without prejudice to the provisions referred to in Article 1 (2),
each Member State shall notify directly to the Commission, at least
on the first working day of each week, the secondary outbreaks of
any of the diseases listed in Annex I which are confirmed in its terri-tory.
The aforesaid notification shall cover the week ending at midnight on
the Sunday prior thereto.
The Commission shall correlate the various information, which it shall
transmit to the veterinary headquarters of each Member State.
2. The receipt of no information by the Commission shall be consid-
ered to mean that no secondary outbreaks have occurred during theperiod referred to in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1.1982L0894 — EN — 11.10.2002 — 008.001 — 3
(1) OJ No L 47, 21. 2. 1980, p. 11.
(2) OJ No L 375, 31. 12. 1980, p. 75.
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3. The notifications referred to in paragraph 1 shall contain the
information featured in Annex II and shall be communicated by telex.
Article 5
1. The codified form by which the information featured in Annex II
is to be transmitted shall be established according to the procedure laid
down in Article 6 and before the date of implementation of this Direc-
tive.
2. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 6, it may
be decided:
— to supplement or amend the Annexes,
— that, notwithstanding Article 4, the scope, content and frequency of
the notification may be temporarily modified in the light of thedisease concerned and its particular epizootiological development.
Article 6
1. Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be followed,
the matter shall without delay be referred by the chairman, either, on
his own initiative or at the request of a Member State, to the StandingVeterinary Committee (hereinafter referred to as ‘the committee’) setupby the Council Decision of 15 October 1968.
2. The representative of the Commission shall submit to the
Committee a draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee shall
deliver its opinion on the draft within a time limit which the Chairman
may lay down according to the urgency of the matter. The opinionshall be delivered by the majority laid down in Article 148 (2) of theTreaty in the case of decisions which the Council is required to adopton a proposal from the Commission. The votes of the representatives of
the Member States within the Committee shall be weighted in the
manner set out in that Article. The Chairman shall not vote.
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A13.◄The Commission shall adopt the measures and shall
implement them immediately, where they are in accordance with theopinion of the committee. Where the measures envisaged are not inaccordance with the opinion of the committee, or if no opinion is deliv-
ered, the Commission shall without delay submit to the Council a
proposal on the measures to be taken. The Council shall adopt themeasures by a qualified majority.
If the Council has not adopted any measures within three months from
the date on which the matter is referred to it, the Commission shalladopt the proposed measures and shall implement them immediately,
unless the Council has voted against the said measures by a simple
majority.
Article 7
The Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive notlater than 1 January 1984 and shall forthwith inform the Commissionthereof.
Article 8
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.1982L0894 — EN — 11.10.2002 — 008.001 — 4
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ANNEX I
Diseaseswhicharesubjecttonotification:
African horse sickness
African swine feverAvian infuenza (was fowl plague)Bluetongue
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Classical swine feverContagious bovine pleuropneumoniaFoot and mouth disease
Newcastle disease
Infectious salmon anaemiaInfectious haematopoietic necrosis
Lumpy skin disease
Rift valley feverRinderpest (cattle plague)Peste des petits ruminants
Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis (was Teschen disease)
Sheep and goat pox (Capripox)Swine vesicular disease
Vesicular stomatitis
Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia1982L0894 — EN — 11.10.2002 — 008.001 — 5
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ANNEX II
Information to be given under the notification required by Articles 3 and 4 in
relation to primary and secondary outbreaks of the diseases listed in Annex I:
1. Date of dispatch;
2. Time of dispatch;3. Country of origin;4. Name of disease and type of virus, where appropriate;
5. Serial number of outbreak;
6. Type of outbreak;7. Reference number of outbreak linked to this outbreak;
8. Region and geographical location of the holding;
9. Other region affected by restrictions;
10. Date of confirmation;11. Date of suspicion;
12. Date of estimation of first infection;
13. Origin of disease;14. Control measures taken;
15. Number of susceptible animals on premises (a) cattle, (b) pigs, (c) sheep,
(d) goats, (e) poultry, (f) equidae, (g) fish, (h) wild species;
16. Number of animals clinically affected on premises (a) cattle, (b) pigs, (c)
sheep, (d) goats, (e) poultry, (f) equidae, (g) fish, (h) wild species;
17. Number of animals that have died on premises (a) cattle, (b) pigs, (c) sheep,
(d) goats, (e) poultry, (f) equidae, (g) fish, (h) wild species;
18. Number of stock slaughtered (a) cattle, (b) pigs, (c) sheep, (d) goats,(e)
poultry, (f) equidae, (g) fish, (h) wild species;
19. Number of carcasses destroyed (a) cattle, (b) pigs, (c) sheep, (d) goats, (e)
poultry, (f) equidae, (g) fish, (h) wild species.
In the case of swine fever the additional information:1. Distance from nearest pig holding;
2. Number and type (breeding, fattening and piglets(*) of pigs on the infected
premises;
3. Number and type of pigs (breeding, fattening and piglets(**) clinically
affected on the infected premises;
4. Method of diagnosis;
5. If not on premises then whether confirmed in a slaughterhouse or in a means
of transport;
6. Confirmation of primary cases(***) in feral pigs.
In the case of fish diseases:Infections with infectious haematopoietic necrosis, infectious salmon anaemia,
and viral haemorrhagic septicaemia, when confirmed in farms or zones approved
or free, must be notified as primary outbreaks. The name and description of the
approved farm or zone must be included in the free text.1982L0894 — EN — 11.10.2002 — 008.001 — 6
(*) Animals under approximately 3 months old.
(**) Animals under approximately 3 months old.(***) Primary case in feral pigs means those cases occurring in free areas i.e. outside of
restricted areas for classical swine fever in feral pigs.