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►B COUNCILDIRECTIVE93/53/EEC
of24June1993
introducingminimumCommunitymeasuresforthecontrolofcertain fishdiseases
(OJ L 175, 19.7.1993, p. 23)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Council Directive 2000/27/EC of 2 May 2000 L 114 28 13.5.2000
►M2Commission Decision 2001/288/EC of 3 April 2001 L 99 11 10.4.2001
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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COUNCILDIRECTIVE93/53/EEC
of24June1993
introducing minimum Community measures for the control of
certain fishdiseases
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity, and in particular Article 43 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 fish are listed in Annex II to the Treaty; whereas the
marketing of fishconstitutes an important source of revenue for th eaquaculture sector;
Whereas it is necessary to establish at Community level the control
measures to be taken in the event of outbreaks of disease, in order toensure rational development of the aquaculture sector and to contribute
to the protection of animal health in the Community;
Whereas it is necessary, for diseases to be covered, to refer to the lists
laid down in Annex A to Council Directive 91/67/EEC of 28 January
1991 concerning the animal health conditions governing the placing on
the market of aquaculture animals and products(
4);
Whereas an outbreak of such diseases can quickly take on epizootic
proportions, causing mortality and disturbances on a scale liable to
reduce severely the profitability of aquaculture;
Whereas control measures must be taken as soon as the presence of
sucha disease is suspected so th at immediate and effective action can
be implemented as soon as its presence is confirmed;
Whereas such measures must be aimed at preventing the spread of the
disease, in particular by carefully controlling movements of fishandproducts liable to spread the infection;
Whereas the prevention of diseases in the Community must normally
be based on a non-vaccination policy;
Whereas a thorough epizootiological investigation is essential to
prevent any spread of the diseases; whereas the Member States must
establishspecial units for th at purpose;
Whereas, in order to ensure an effective system of control, diagnosis of
the diseases must be harmonized and carried out under the auspices of
responsible laboratories, the coordination of which may be carried outby a reference laboratory designated by the Community;
Whereas, in order to ensure uniform implementation of this Directive, a
Community inspection procedure should be established;
Whereas common measures for the control of the diseases form a
minimum basis for maintaining a uniform standard of animal health;
Whereas Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure
in the veterinary field(
5), and in particular Article 5 thereof, applies in
the event of an outbreak of one of the diseases listed in Annex A toDirective 91/67/EEC;1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 2
(1) OJ No C 172, 8. 7. 1992, p. 16.
(2) OJ No C 150, 31. 5. 1993.
(3) OJ No C 19, 25. 1. 1993, p. 4.
(4) OJ No L 46, 19. 2. 1991, p. 1.
(5) OJ No L 224, 18. 8. 1990, p. 19. Decision as last amended by Decision 92/
438/EEC (OJ No L 243, 25. 8. 1992, p. 27).
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Whereas the Commission should be entrusted with the task of adopting
the necessary implementing measures; whereas, for that purpose, aprocedure should be established to bring about close and effective
cooperation between the Commission and the Member States within
the Standing Veterinary Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
CHAPTER I
General provisions
Article 1
This Directive defines the minimum Community measures for the
control of the fish diseases referred to in Annex A, lists I and II, toDirective 91/67/EEC.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive, the definitions laid down in Article
2 of Directive 91/67/EEC shall apply as necessary.
In addition, the following definitions shall apply:
1. list I diseases: fishdiseases referred to in Annex A, list I, to Direc-
tive 91/67/EEC;
2. list II diseases: fishdiseases referred to in Annex A, list II, to
Directive 91/67/EEC;
3. fishsuspected of being infected: fishsh owing clinical signs or
post-mortem lesions or dubious reactions in laboratory tests giving
rise to reasonable suspicion of the presence of a list I or list IIdisease;
4. infected fish: fish in which the presence of a list I or list II disease
has been officially confirmed as the result of a laboratory examina-tion or, in the case of ISA, as the result of a clinical examination
and a post-mortem examination;
5. farm suspected of being infected: farm containing fishsuspected of
being infected;
6. infected farm: farm containing infected fish; also farm which has
been evacuated but not yet disinfected.
Article 3
Member States shall ensure that all farms rearing or keeping fish
susceptible to list I or list II diseases:
1. are registered by the official service; this registration must be kept
constantly up to date;
2. keep a record of:
(a) live fish, eggs and gametes entering the farm, containing all
information relating to their delivery, their number or weight,their size, their source and their suppliers;
(b) live fish, eggs and gametes leaving the farm, containing all
information relating to their dispatch, their number or weight,
their size and destination;
(c) observed mortality.
This record, which shall be open to scrutiny by the official service
whenever the latter so requests, must be regularly updated and shallbe kept for four years.
Article 4
Member States shall ensure that it is compulsory for the suspected
presence of any of the list I and list II diseases to be notified as soonas possible to the official service.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 3
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CHAPTER II
ControlmeasuresforlistIdiseases
Article 5
1. When fish on a farm are suspected of being infected with a list I
disease, Member States shall ensure that the official service immedi-ately activates official investigation arrangements to confirm or rule
out the presence of the disease, including clinical examination; in parti-
cular, it must take, or have taken, the samples necessary for laboratoryexamination.
2. As soon as the suspected presence of the disease is notified, the
official service shall have the farm placed under official surveillance
and shall in particular require that:
(a) an official census be made of all species and categories of fishand
that, in respect of each of these, the number of fish already dead,infected or suspected of being infected or contaminated be
recorded; the census must be kept up to date by the owner or
keeper to take account of the increase in the population or newmortality observed during the period of suspected infection; theinformation in the census must be produced on request and maybe checked at each inspection;
(b) no fish, whether alive or dead, or eggs or gametes enter or leave
the farm without the authorization of the official service;
(c) the disposal of dead fish or their offal be carried out under the
supervision of the official service;
(d) the entry or exit of feedingstuffs, utensils, objects or other
substances suchas waste, liable to transmit disease be subject, ifnecessary, to authorization by the official service, which shall lay
down the conditions required to prevent the spread of the pathogen;
(e) the movement of persons to or from the farm be made subject to
authorization by the official service;
(f) the entry or exit of vehicles to or from the farm be made subject to
authorization by the official service, which shall lay down the
conditions required to prevent the spread of the pathogen;
(g) appropriate means of disinfection be used at the entrances end exits
of the farm;
(h) an epizootic investigation be carried out in accordance with Article
8 (1);
(i) all of the farms situated in the same water catchment area or
coastal area be placed under official surveillance, and no fish,
eggs or gametes leave these farms without the authorization of the
official service; in the case of extensive water catchment areas orcoastal areas, the official service may decide to limit this measureto a less extensive area close to the farm suspected of beinginfected, if it considers that this area affords maximum guarantees
for the prevention of the spread of the disease;
if necessary, the official services of neighbouring Member States or
third countries must be informed of the suspected case; in that
event, the official services of the Member States involved shall
take appropriate action to apply the measures laid down in thisArticle.
Where necessary, specific measures may be taken in accordance
withth e procedure laid down in Article 19.
3. Until suchtime as th e official measures laid down in paragraph2
are enforced, the owner or keeper of any fish in which disease is
suspected shall take every appropriate measure to ensure compliance
with paragraph 2, except for (h) and (i) thereof.
4. The measures referred to in paragraph 2 shall not be withdrawn
until the suspicion of disease has been officially ruled out.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 4
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Article 6
As soon as the presence of a list I disease has been officially
confirmed, Member States shall ensure that the official service orders
that, in addition to the measures listed in Article 5 (2), of the following
measures be applied:
(a) in an infected farm:
— all fish shall be withdrawn in accordance with a scheme estab-
lished by the official service and approved by the Commissionin accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 19(2),
— in the case of inland farms all pools must be drained for the
purposes of cleaning and disinfection,
— all eggs and gametes, dead fishand fishsh owing clinical signs
of disease shall be regarded as high-risk material and must bedestroyed under the supervision of the official service, in accor-
dance withDirective 90/667/EEC(
1),
— all live fish shall either be killed and destroyed under the super-
vision of the official service in accordance with Directive 90/
667/EEC, or else, in the case of fish which have reachedcommercial size and show no clinical sign of disease, beslaughtered under the supervision of the official service formarketing or processing for human consumption.
In the latter case, the official service shall ensure that the fish
are immediately slaughtered and gutted, that these operations
are carried out in conditions suchas to prevent th e spread of
pathogens, that the fish waste and offal are regarded as high-risk material and are submitted to a treatment to destroy patho-gens in accordance with Directive 90/667/EEC and that theused water is submitted to a treatment which inactivates anypathogens it may contain;
— after removal of the fish, eggs and gametes, ponds, equipment
and any material liable to be contaminated must be cleaned
and disinfected as soon as possible following the instructions
established by the official service in such a way as to eliminateany risk of the agent of the disease spreading or surviving. Theprocedures for cleaning and disinfecting an infected farm shallbe determined in accordance withth e procedure laid down in
Article 19,
— any substances which might be contaminated, referred to in
Article 5 (2) (d), must be destroyed or treated in sucha way
as to ensure the destruction of any pathogen present,
— an epizootic investigation must be carried out in accordance
withArticle 8 (1) and th e provisions of Article 8 (4) must beapplied; this investigation must include the taking of samplesfor laboratory examination;
(b) all farms situated in the water catchment area or in the coastal zone
in which the infected farm is situated shall undergo health inspec-tions; if these inspections reveal positive cases, the measuresprovided for under (a) of this paragraph shall be applied;
(c) the repopulation of the farm shall be authorized by the official
service following satisfactory inspection of the cleaning and disin-fection operations and at the end of a period deemed adequate bythe official service to ensure eradication of the pathogen, and ofother possible infections in the same water catchment area;
(d) it application of the measures laid down under (a), (b), (c) and (d)
of Article 5 (2) requires the cooperation of the official services of1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 5
(1) Council Directive 90/667/EEC of 27 November 1990 laying down the veter-
inary rules for the disposal and processing of animal waste, for its placing
on the market and for the prevention of pathogens in feedstuffs of animal
or fishorigin and amending Directive 90/425/EEC (OJ No L 363, 27. 12.
1990, p. 51). Directive as amended by Directive 92/118/EEC (OJ No L 62,
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other Member States, the official services of the Member States
concerned shall collaborate to ensure compliance with the measureslaid down in this Article.
Where necessary, appropriate additional measures shall be adopted in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 19.
Article 7
Where fish from the wild and not belonging to any farm or fish in
lakes, ponds or other installations intended for angling or holding orna-
mental fishare infected or suspected of being infected, Member States
shall ensure that appropriate measures are taken. Member States shallinform the Commission and the other Member States, in the StandingVeterinary Committee, of the measures they have taken.
Article 8
1. The epizootic investigation shall deal with:
— the likely length of time during which the disease may have existed
on the farm before being notified or suspected,
— the possible origin of the disease on the farm and the identification
of other farms on which there are eggs and gametes and fish of
susceptible species which may have become infected;
— the movement of fish, eggs or gametes, vehicles or substances and
persons likely to have carried the agent of the disease to or from thefarms in question,
— the possible existence of carriers of the disease, and their distribu-
tion.
2. If the epizootic investigation reveals that the disease could have
been introduced from another water catchment area or another coastal
area, or could have been transferred to another water catchment area oranother coastal area as a result of a contact arising from the movementof fish, eggs or gametes, animals, vehicles or persons, or in any otherway, the farms belonging to such water catchment areas and coastalareas shall be considered suspect and the measures laid down in Article
5 shall apply. If the presence of the disease is confirmed, the measures
laid down in Article 6 shall apply.
3. If the epizootic investigation reveals that the cooperation of the
official services of other Member States is required, the officialservices of the Member States concerned shall take all necessary
measures to ensure compliance with the provisions of this Directive.
4. A crisis unit shall be established in order to provide full coordina-
tion of all measures necessary to ensure eradication of the disease asquickly as possible and for the purpose of carrying out the epizooticinvestigation.
The general rules concerning national crisis units and the Community
crisis units shall be laid down by the Council, acting by a qualifiedmajority on a proposal from the Commission.
5. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission drawn up on the basis of the opinion of the Scientific
Veterinary Committee to take account, in particular, of scientific and
technological developments, shall review the provisions of this Articlebefore 31 December 1996.
CHAPTER III
ControlmeasuresforlistIIdiseases
Article 9
1. Where a list II disease is suspected and/or confirmed in an
approved zone or on an approved farm situated in a non-approvedzone, an epizootic investigation shall be carried out in accordancewith Article 8. Member States wishing to regain their status defined1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 6
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in accordance withDirective 91/67/EEC must comply withth e provi-
sions of Annexes B and C to that Directive.
2. If the epizootic investigation reveals that the disease could have
been introduced from an approved zone or from another approved
farm, or could have been transferred to another approved farm as aresult of the movement of fish, eggs or gametes, vehicles or persons,or in any other way, those zones or farms shall be considered suspectand the appropriate measures shall apply.
3. The official service may, however, authorize the fattening of fish
to be slaughtered until they reach commercial size.
Article 10
1. Where a non-approved farm situated in a non-approved zone
contains fishsuspected of being infected witha list II disease, MemberStates shall ensure that the official service:
(a) immediately sets in motion official means of investigation to
confirm or rule out the presence of the disease including, wherenecessary, the taking of samples for examination in an approved
laboratory;
(b) carries out or causes to be carried out an official census of the
infected farms, this census being regularly updated;
(c) places, or causes to be placed, the infected farms under official
supervision, in order to ensure that, by way of derogation fromArticle 3 (1) (c) of Directive 91/67/EEC, the only movementsauthorized from infected farms are live fish or eggs or gametesintended either for other farms infected by the same disease or for
slaughter for human consumption.
2. Member States may, for a fixed period, set up under the supervi-
sion of the official service an optional or compulsory programme forthe eradication of list II diseases in non-approved farms or in non-approved zones. During this period, the introduction into a zone orfarm subject to sucha programme of live fish , eggs or gametes from
infected farms or farms of unknown health status shall be forbidden.
These programmes, which will be set up on the basis of general criteria
to be determined before the date specified in Article 20 in accordancewith the procedure laid down in Article 19, will be submitted to theCommission for scrutiny, and approved and where necessary amendedin accordance withth at same procedure.
After the period referred to in the first subparagraph, Member States
which have recourse to this procedure shall inform the Commission
and the other Member States, within the Standing VeterinaryCommittee, of the results obtained.
3. By 31 December 1996, the Commission shall submit to the
Council a report, drawn up after obtaining the opinion of the ScientificVeterinary Committee, taking into account experience gained and
scientific and technical developments and accompanied, where appro-
priate, by proposals for a review of the provision of this Article, inparticular with regard to the placing on the market of infected livefish, and their eggs or gametes, intended for farming or fattening, andwithregard to th e carrying out of an epizootiological investigation innon-approved zones where a disease is suspected on a non-approved
farm. The Council shall act by a qualified majority on any such propo-
sals and the latter shall be put forward taking into account theconclusions of the report.
4. Any detailed rules for implementing paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be
adopted by the Commission, as and when required, in accordance withthe procedure laid down in Article 19.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 7
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CHAPTER IV
Finalprovisions
Article 11
1. Sampling and laboratory testing for the presence of list I and list
II diseases shall be carried out using the methods established in accor-dance withArticle 15 of Directive 91/67/EEC.
2. Testing for the presence of disease or pathogens shall be carried
out by a laboratory approved by the official service. Laboratory testing
shall, if necessary and especially on the first appearance of the disease,identify the type, sub-type or the variant of the relevant pathogen,which must be confirmed by the national reference laboratory andmay be confirmed, if necessary, by the Community reference labora-
tory referred to in Article 13.
Article 12
1. Member States shall ensure that in each Member State a national
reference laboratory is designated, withfacilities and expert personnel
enabling it to show at all times, and especially when the disease inquestion first appears, the type, sub-type and variant of the relevantpathogen and to confirm results obtained by regional diagnostic labora-tories.
2. The national laboratories designated for the diseases in question
shall be responsible for coordinating diagnostic standards and methods,
and for the use of reagents.
3. The national laboratories designated for the diseases in question
shall be responsible for coordinating the diagnostic standards andmethods laid down by each laboratory for diagnosis of the disease inquestion within the Member State. To this end, they:
(a) may provide diagnostic reagents to laboratories approved by the
Member State;
(b) shall control the quality of all diagnostic reagents used in the
Member State;
(c) shall periodically arrange comparative tests;
(d) shall hold isolates of the pathogen of the disease from cases
confirmed in the Member State;
(e) shall ensure confirmation of positive results obtained in diagnostic
laboratories approved by the Member State.
4. However, by way of derogation from paragraph1, Member States
which do not have a national laboratory competent as regards thedisease in question may use the services of a national laboratory withcompetence in the matter in another Member State.
5. The list of national reference laboratories for fish diseases is set
out in Annex A.
6. The national laboratories designated for the diseases referred to
shall cooperate with the Community reference laboratory referred to
in Article 13.
7. The detailed rules for implementing this Article shall be adopted
by the Commission under the procedure laid down in Article 19.
Article 13
1. The Community reference laboratory for fish diseases is indicated
in Annex B.
2. Without prejudice to Decision 90/424/EEC, and in particular
Article 28 thereof, the functions and duties of the laboratory referredto in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be those laid down in Annex C.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 8
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Article 14
1. Vaccination against list II diseases in approved zones, in
approved farms situated in non-approved zones or in zones or farmswhich have already begun the approval procedures laid down by Direc-tive 91/67/EEC and against list I diseases shall be forbidden.
However, by way of derogation, vaccination may be authorised in the
case of an outbreak of list I diseases provided the procedures for vacci-
nation are specified in the approved contingency plans in accordancewithArticle 15 and account is taken of th e criteria set out in Annex E.
2. The Council, acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from
the Commission, shall by 30 June 1996, review the provisions of this
Article, in particular withregard to laying down specific conditionsfor the use of vaccines and to take account of developments in scien-tific and technological research into vaccination.
Article 15
1. EachMember State sh all draw up a contingency plan specifying
how it will implement the measures laid down in this Directive in the
event of an outbreak of a list I disease.
This plan must allow access to facilities, equipment, personnel and all
other appropriate structures necessary for the rapid and efficient eradi-cation of the outbreak.
2. The general criteria to be applied for drawing up those plans are
set out in Annex D.
Member States may, however, confine themselves to the application of
the criteria specific to the diseases concerned, where the generalcriteria have already been adopted in the context of the submission ofplans relating to the application of measures for the control of another
disease.
The Commission may, in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 19, amend or supplement those criteria, taking into account thespecific nature of the disease.
3. Plans drawn up in accordance withth e criteria set out in Annex D
shall be submitted to the Commission no later than six month after the
date on which this Directive is brought into effect.
4. The Commission shall examine the plans in order to determine
whether they permit the desired objective to be attained and shallsuggest to the Member State concerned any amendments required, inparticular to ensure that they are compatible with the plans of the other
Member States.
The Commission shall approve the plans, amended if necessary, in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 19.
The plans may subsequently be amended or supplemented, in accor-
dance withth e same procedure, to take into account developments in
the situation.
Article 16
Commission experts may, in collaboration with the competent authori-
ties, and in so far as is necessary to ensure uniform application of thisDirective, make on-the-spot checks. In order to do that, they may checka representative percentage of holdings to see whether the competentauthorities are checking that these holdings are fulfilling the require-
ments of this Directive. The Commission shall inform the Member
States of the result of the checks carried out.
A Member State in whose territory a check is being carried out shall
give all the necessary assistance to the experts in carrying out theirduties.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 9
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The detailed rules for implementing this Article shall be determined in
accordance withth e procedure laid down in Article 19.
Article 17
The conditions governing the Community's financial contribution to the
measures connected with the application of this Directive are laid down
in Decision 90/424/EEC.
Article 18
Annexes B, C and D shall be amended, as and when required, by the
Council acting by a qualified majority on a proposal from the Commis-sion, in particular in order to take into account developments inresearchand in diagnostic procedures.
Annex A may be amended as and when required in accordance with
the procedure laid down in Article 19.
Article 18a
The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive
concerning the measures referred to in the Articles listed hereinafterare to be adopted in accordance withth e regulatory procedures referredto in Article 19(2):
— Article 5(2),
— Article 6,— Article 10(1) and (2),— Article 12,
— Article 15,
— Article 16— Article 18, second subparagraph.
Article 19
1. The Commission shall be assisted by the Standing Veterinary
Committee established by Decision 68/361/EEC(
1), hereinafter referred
to as the Committee.
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of
Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply.
The period provided for in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall
be three months.
3. The Committee shall adopt its rules of procedure.
Article 20
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and
administrative provisions necessary to comply withth is Directivebefore 1 July 1994. They shall forthwith inform the Commissionthereof.
When Member States adopt these provisions, they shall contain a refer-
ence to this Directive or be accompanied by such reference on the
occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such a
reference shall be laid down by the Member States.
2. However, from the date laid down in paragraph 1, Member States
may, subject to the general rules of the Treaty, maintain or apply intheir territory stricter provisions than those laid down by this Directive.They shall notify the Commission of any such measure.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 10
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3. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the main
provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered bythis Directive.
Article 21
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 11
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ANNEX A
NATIONALREFERENCELABORATORIESFORFISHDISEASES
Belgium: CODA — Centrum voor Onderzoek in Diergenees-
kunde en Agrochemie
CERVA — Centre d'étude et de recherches vétérinaires
et agrochimiques
Groeselenberg 99
B-1180 Brussel/Bruxelles.
Denmark: Statens Veterinære Serumlaboratorium
Fødevareministeriet
Hangøvej 2
DK-8200 Århus N.
Germany: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere
Boddenblick 5a
D-17498 Insel Riems.
Greece: Laboratory of Fish Pathology and Bio-Pathology of
Aquatic Organisms
Centre of Athens Veterinary Institutes, Institute of
Infectious and Parasitic Diseases
25 Neapoleos ST.
GR-153 10 Ag. Paraskevi Attiki.
Spain: Laboratorio Central de Veterinaria de Algete
Madrid.
France: Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des aliments
(AFSSA)
Laboratoire d'études et de recherches en pathologie des
poissons (LERPP)
Technopôle Brest Iroise — BP 70
F-29280 Plouzane.
Ireland: Fisheries Research Centre Abbotstown
Castleknock
Dublin15
Ireland.
Italy: Istituto zooprofilattico sperimentale delle Venezie
Via Romea 14/A
I-35020 Legnaro, Padova.
Luxembourg: CODA — Centrum voor Onderzoek in Diergenees-
kunde en Agrochemie
CERVA — Centre d'étude et de recherches vétérinaires
et agrochimiques
Groeselenberg 99
B-1180 Brussel/Bruxelles.
Netherlands: Fish Diseases Laboratory
ID-Lelystad
Institute for Animal Science and Health
Edelhertweg 15PO Box 65
8200 AB Lelystad
Nederland.
Austria: Institut für Hydrobiologie, Fisch- und Bienenkunde
Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien
Veterinärplatz 1
A-1210 Wien.
Portugal: Laboratório Nacional de Investigação Veterinária
Estrada de Benfica 701
P-1500 Lisboa.
Finland: Eläinlääkintä- ja elintarvikelaitos (EELA)PL 368
FIN-00231 Helsinki.
Sweden: Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt (SVA)
S-751 89 Uppsala.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 12
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United Kingdom: CEFAS WeymouthLaboratory
Barrack Road
WeymouthDT4 8UBUnited Kingdom.
The Marine LaboratoryPO box 101
Victoria Road
Aberdeen AB9 8DB
United Kingdom.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 13
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ANNEX B
COMMUNITYREFERENCELABORATORYFORFISHDISEASES
Statens Veterinære Serumlaboratorium
Landbrugsministeriet
Hangøvej 2
8200 Aarhus N
Denmark.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 14
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ANNEX C
FUNCTIONS ANDD UTIES OF THE COMMUNITY REFERENCE
LABORATORYFORFISHDISEASES
The functions and duties of the Community reference laboratory for list I and II
diseases shall be:
1. to coordinate, in consultation with the Commission, the methods employed in
the Member States for diagnosing the disease concerned, specifically by:
(a) typing, storing and supplying strains of the pathogen of the relevant
disease for serological tests and the preparation of antisera;
(b) supplying standard sera and other reference reagents to the national refer-
ence laboratories in order to standardize the tests and reagents used in
eachMember State;
(c) building up and retaining a collection of strains and isolates of the rele-
vant pathogen;
(d) organizing periodic comparative tests of diagnostic procedures at
Community level;
(e) collecting and collating data and information on the methods of diagnosis
used and the results of tests carried out in the Community;
(f) characterizing isolates of the pathogen of the relevant disease by the
most up-to-date and appropriate methods to allow greater understanding
of the epizootiology of the disease;
(g) keeping abreast of developments in the surveillance, epizootiology and
prevention of the relevant disease throughout the world;
(h) retaining expertise on the relevant disease pathogen and other pertinent
pathogens to enable rapid differential diagnosis;
(i) acquiring a thorough knowledge of the preparation and use of the
products of veterinary immunology used to eradicate and control the rele-
vant disease;
2. to assist actively in the diagnosis of outbreaks of the relevant disease in
Member States by receiving pathogen isolates for confirmatory diagnosis,
characterization and epizootic studies;
3. to facilitate the training or retraining of experts in laboratoy diagnosis with a
view to the harmonization of diagnostic techniques throughout the Commu-
nity;
4. to collaborate as regards methods of diagnosing list I diseases, with the
competent laboratories in third countries where those diseases are prevalent.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 15
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ANNEX D
MINIMUMCRITERIAFORCONTINGENCYPLANS
Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria:
1. the establishment of a national crisis centre which shall coordinate all control
measures in the Member State concerned;
2. a list shall be provided of local disease control centres with adequate facil-
ities to coordinate the disease control measures at a local level;
3. detailed information shall be given on the staff involved in control measures,
their skills and their responsibilities;
4. eachlocal disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/
organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak;
5. equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control
measures properly;
6. detailed instructions shall be provided on action to be taken on suspicion and
confirmation of infection or contamination;
7. training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in
field and administrative procedures;
8. where appropriate, diagnostic laboratories must have facilities for post-
mortem examination, the necessary capacity for serology, histology, etc.,
and must maintain the skills for rapid diagnosis (to this end, arrangements
must be made for rapid transportation of samples);
9. provisions shall be adopted to ensure the legal powers necessary for the
implementation of the contingency plans.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 16
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ANNEX E
CRITERIAFORVACCINATIONPROGRAMMES
Vaccination programmes must contain at least the following information:
1. The nature of the disease calling for a request to be made to vaccinate.
2. Information shall be supplied on the coastal and mainland areas, the sites and
farms in which vaccination may be carried out: under no circumstances may
vaccination be conducted beyond the limits of the infected area and, if neces-
sary, the buffer zone established around the infected area.
3. Detailed information on the vaccine to be used, including the type(s) of
vaccine which may be used.
4. Detailed information on the conditions for use, frequency of vaccination and
the limits on use of the vaccine (which fish, which cages, etc.).
5. The criteria for ceasing vaccination.6. Provisions shall be adopted to ensure that a log is kept of past vaccinations
(dates, sites and farms in which vaccination has been conducted, the estab-
lishment of a buffer zone, etc.).
7. Measures shall be taken for fish movements to be limited within the vaccina-
tion area so as to guarantee that fish can leave the vaccination area only if
they are to be killed for human consumption, or if necessary to be destroyed.
8. Any other necessary provisions required for vaccination.1993L0053 — EN — 10.04.2001 — 003.001 — 17