No C 19/6 Official Journal of the European Communities 26. 1. 84 
Proposal for a Council Directive amending Directive 80/217/EEC introducing 
Community measures for the control of classical swine fever 
COM(83) 783 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 17 January 1984) 
(84/C 19/07) 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Article 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European 
Parliament, 
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and 
Social Committee, 
Whereas Council Directive 80/217/EEC (*), as last 
amended by Directive 81/476/EEC (2), introduced 
Community measures to be applied in the event of 
suspected or confirmed cases of classical swine fever; 
Whereas, in view of the way in which the disease has 
developed, the measures implemented should be 
stepped up; 
Whereas the conditions for carrying out the 
protective vaccination of herds threatened with 
contamination and the conditions for controlling the 
movement of livestock should be specified; 
Whereas, in the event of the disease assuming serious 
epizootic proportions, it must be possible to make 
regional measures, in particular protective vacci­
nation, compulsory; whereas, to this end, provision 
should be made for a rapid procedure for initiating 
close cooperation between the Member States and the 
Commission, 
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: 
Article 1 
Directive 80/217/EEC is hereby amended as follows: 
1. In the seventh indent of Article 5, '15 days' shall 
be replaced by '30 days'. 
2. In Article 9 (2) (b) and in the first subparagraph 
of Article 9 (3), '15 days' shall be replaced by 
'30 days'. 
(') OJNoL47, 21.2. 1980, p. 11. 
O OJ No L 186, 8. 7. 1981, p. 20. 3. Article 14 shall be replaced by the following: 
'Article 14 
Member States shall ensure that the following 
measures are applied: 
1. In general: 
— the use of specific immune-serum or sero-
vaccination is prohibited, 
— the manufacture, sale, distribution and use of 
swine fever vaccine are placed under official 
control, 
— requirements relating to swine fever vaccine 
established in accordance with the procedure 
laid down in Article 16 are observed, 
— swine fever vaccines imported from non-
member countries are authorized and checked 
by the competent authority in the importing 
Member State and are subject to the same 
conditions in respect of sale, distribution and 
use as apply to vaccines produced in the 
Member States. 
2. Where swine fever is detected on one or 
more holdings or in one or more production units, 
the measures to control the disease may be 
supplemented by the prompt vaccination under 
official control of pigs in other production units or 
on other holdings threatened with contamination 
in a territorial vaccination area demarcated by the 
competent authority. The vaccinated pigs shall 
be permanently marked in accordance with the 
instructions issued by the competent authority. 
(a) Vaccination may be carried out systematically 
on all the pigs in the vaccination area. In this 
case, the following measures shall be applied: 
(i) all pigs kept on holdings inside the vac­
cination area shall be vaccinated as soon 
as possible, 
(ii) all pigs kept on holdings inside the vac­
cination area must remain there 
throughout the vaccination operations, 
(iii) any pigs born on or transferred to a 
holding inside the vaccination area within 
six months of the completion of the vac­
cination operations referred to in (i) shall 
be vaccinated, 
(iv) in order to be allowed to leave the vac­
cination area, live vaccinated pigs must be 
intended for immediate slaughter and 
have been vaccinated at least 21 days 
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beforehand. However, four months after 
completion of the vaccination operations 
referred to in (i), the competent authority 
may authorize the departure of vaccinated 
pigs intended for fattening, provided they 
are transferred under official control and 
the receiving holding contains only pigs 
for fattening and is kept under official 
surveillance until the vaccinated pigs are 
slaughtered. 
(b) Vaccination may concern only pigs for 
fattening in the vaccination area, in which case 
no vaccinated pig may leave the holding on 
which it is kept except to be taken to a slaugh­
terhouse for slaughter. In such a case, the 
following measures shall be applied: 
(i) all pigs on holdings containing pigs for 
fattening shall be vaccinated as soon as 
possible, 
(ii) during the vaccination operations, and for 
21 days following completion of these 
operations, live pigs must remain in the 
vaccination area, 
(iii) for six months following the lifting of the 
measures laid down in (ii): 
— all pigs for fattening brought to 
holdings in the vaccination area shall 
be vaccinated, 
— piglets for fattening originating in the 
vaccination area may be transferred 
only to holdings inside a vaccination 
area, 
— where live breeding pigs are moved 
from holdings inside to holdings 
outside the vaccination area, no pigs 
shall be allowed to leave the latter 
holdings, except for immediate 
slaughter, for 30 days following the 
arrival of the pigs from the vaccination 
area; in the case of in-pig sows, the 
30-day period shall commence on 
farrowing.' 
4. The following Article 14a shall be inserted: 
'Article 14a 
Where an epizootic of swine fever is exceptionally 
serious and is tending to spread, a decision may be 
taken in accordance with the procedure laid down 
in Article 16a to declare a demarcated territorial 
area a high health risk area. 
When live pigs kept in a holding situated in a high 
health risk area are introduced into another holding situated inside or outside the area, no pigs 
may leave this receiving holding except for 
immediate slaughter for a 30-day period expiring 
after either the reception of the pigs coming from 
a high health risk area or in the case of pregnant 
pigs from such an area after farrowing. 
The measures laid down in the two previous 
paragraphs shall be discontinued six months after 
the elimination of the last outbreak of classical 
swine fever in the high health risk area.' 
5. The following Article 16a shall be inserted: 
'Article 16a 
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 Committee. 
2. Within the Committee, 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 on these 
measures within two days. Opinions shall be 
delivered by a majority of 45 votes. 
4. The Commission shall adopt the measures 
and shall implement them immediately, where they 
are in accordance with the opinion of the 
Committee. Where the measures envisaged are not 
in accordance with the opinion of the 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. 
5. 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 the Council has voted against 
the measures by a simple majority.' 
Article 2 
Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu­
lations and administrative provisions necessary to 
comply with this Directive not later than 1 July 1984. 
The shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof. 
Article 3 
This Directive is addressed to the Member States.