98/372/EC: Commission Decision of 29 May 1998 concerning the animal health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of live animals of bovine and porcine species from certain European countries (notified under document number C(1998) 1450) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-05-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern Europe, cattle, health certificate, health legislation, swine

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 29 May 1998

concerning the animal health conditions and veterinary certification for imports
of live animals of bovine and porcine species from certain European countries

(notified under document number C(1998) 1450)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(98/372/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to the Council Directive 72/462/EEC, of
12 December 1972, on health and veterinary inspection
problems on importation of bovine, ovine and caprine
animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products from
by Directive
last
third
97/79/EC (2), and in particular Articles 6, 8 and 11,

countries (1),

amended

as

Whereas the animal health conditions and veterinary
certification for import of domestic animals of the bovine
and porcine species from Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria,
Romania, Latvia, Slovenia, Lithuania, Estonia, Croatia,
Slovak Republic and Czech Republic, were established by
Commission Decisions 92/322/EEC (3), 92/323/EEC (4),
93/181/EEC (7),
92/402/EEC (6),
92/325/EEC (5),
93/182/EEC (8),
93/184/EEC (10),
93/183/EEC (9),
94/321/EC (11), 96/185/EC (12), 96/186/EC (13) respectively;

Whereas, with a view to the internal market, numerous
health measures have been established in the framework
of trade inside the Community; whereas the realisation of
this objective necessitates, in parallel, an adaptation of the
health conditions required for importation of domestic
animals of the bovine and porcine species from certain
European countries;

Whereas this adaptation must take into account the dif-
ferent epidemiological situations in the European coun-
tries concerned, and indeed in the different parts of their
territories; whereas, given the existence of similar health

(1) OJ L 302, 31. 12. 1972, p. 28.
(2) OJ L 24, 30. 1. 1998, p. 31.
(3) OJ L 177, 30. 6. 1992, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 177, 30. 6. 1992, p. 18.
(5) OJ L 177, 30. 6. 1992, p. 52.
(6) OJ L 224, 8. 8. 1992, p. 18.
(7) OJ L 78, 31. 3. 1993, p. 1.
(8) OJ L 78, 31. 3. 1993, p. 11.
(9) OJ L 78, 31. 3. 1993, p. 21.
(10) OJ L 78, 31. 3. 1993, p. 31.
(11) OJ L 143, 8. 6. 1994, p. 11.
(12) OJ L 59, 8. 3. 1996, p. 23.
(13) OJ L 59, 8. 3. 1996, p. 41.

situations between the various parts of those countries, it
is necessary to take account of this fact in establishing a
new system of health guarantees;

Whereas, as a result, it is appropriate to establish different
health certificates
in accordance with the conditions
required for the importation of domestic animals of the
bovine and porcine species from those different categories
of countries or parts of countries;

Whereas, in order to clarify and simplify the Community
legislation it is necessary to group together the health
conditions required for imports of domestic animals of
the bovine and porcine species from certain European
countries and to repeal the decisions in force for those
countries;

Whereas the animal health situation of Albania, Belarus,
Bosnia Herzegovina, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia,
former Yugoslav Republic of Macdedonia, and Russia
does not allow the conditions for the imports of domestic
animals of the bovine and porcine species to be estab-
lished;

Whereas each responsible veterinary authority of
the
concerned countries must confirm that their country or
parts of their country have during the last 24 months
been free from foot-and-mouth disease and during the
last 12 months been free from rinderpest, contagious
(Teschen
bovine pleuropneumonia
disease), swine vesicular disease and vesicular exanthema;
whereas no vaccinations have been carried out against any
of those diseases during the past 12 months;

encephalomyelitis

Whereas, in addition, the responsible veterinary author-
ities of the concerned countries must undertake to notify
the European Commission and the Member States, by
telex or fax, within 24 hours of the confirmation of the
occurrence of any of the abovementioned diseases or of
the adoption of vaccination against any of them or, within
an appropriate period, of any proposed changes in their
import rules concerning bovine animals or swine or the
semen or embryos thereof; whereas certain authorities
have also undertaken to notify the Commission period-
ically with updated information on monitoring and
disease control plans for the abovementioned diseases in
particular classical swine fever;

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Whereas the imports of domestic animals of the bovine
and porcine species are not allowed in so far as a
programme of control of residues in the exporting non-
member country has not been approved by the European
Commission;

Whereas
the guarantees provided by the exporting
country as regards bovine tuberculosis and brucellosis
must be equivalent to that of herds in the European
Community having the status of ‘Officially Free’;

Whereas animal health conditions and veterinary certif-
ication must be adapted according to the animal health
situation of the third country concerned;

Whereas certain conditions for certificates drawn up by
the official veterinarian of the non-member country are
laid down in Directive 72/462/EEC;

Whereas Directive 96/93/EC (1) lays down standards of
certification which are necessary for valid certification and
to prevent fraud; whereas it is appropriate to ensure that
the rules and principles applied by non-member country
certifying officers provide guarantees which are at least
equivalent to those laid down in this Directive;

Whereas the responsible veterinary authorities of
the
concerned countries have undertaken to supervise offi-
cially the issue of certificates arising from this Decision
and to ensure that all relevant certificates, declarations
and statements on which export certification may have
been based remain on official file for at least 12 months
following the dispatch of the animals to which they refer;

Whereas the responsible veterinary authorities of
the
concerned countries have undertaken not to permit the
issue of the certificates described in the Annexes to this
Decision in respect of animals which have been imported
unless such animals were imported in accordance with
least as strict as the relevant
veterinary conditions at
requirements of Directive 72/462/EEC,
including any
subsidiary decisions;

Whereas the responsible veterinary authorities of
the
concerned countries have undertaken to fulfil the require-
ments of Commission Decision 91/189/EEC (2) in order
to authorise assembly centres for the animals covered by
the present Decision;

Whereas considering that a new certification regime is
hereby established, a period of time should be provided
for its implementation;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Decision are in
accordance with the opinion of the Standing Veterinary
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

For the purposes of this Decision to definitions contained
in Directive 72/462/EEC shall be applied as necessary.

Article 2

1. Member States shall authorise the importation of the
categories of live animals set out in Annex II and coming
from the territories laid down in Annex I, only if they
comply with the guarantees laid down in the health certi-
ficate, drawn up in conformtiy with Annex III.

2. Member States shall make the introduction onto
their territory of bovine or porcine animals from the
country of origin only if they comply with the supple-
mentary guarantees required in Annex II and described in
Annex IV. These supplementary guarantees must be
provided by the exporting country in section VI of each
model of the certificate laid down in Annex III.

3. Member States shall authorise the importation from
the concerned exporting countries of
the domestic
animals of the bovine or porcine species indicated in
paragraph 1 which have been imported into the
concerned exporting country only if such animals were
imported from the Community or from a non-member
country included in the list annexed to Council Decision
79/542/EEC (3), in so far as it covers domestic animals of
these species and only if the importation was made in
accordance with veterinary conditions at least as strict as
the requirements of Chapter II of Directive 72/462/EEC,
including any subsidiary Decisions.

4. Member States shall require that animals which are
submitted to tests in application of this Decision are kept
continuously isolated, under conditions approved by an
official veterinarian of the country of origin, from all
cloven-hooved animals not intended for export to the
Community or not of equivalent health status to such
animals from the time of the first of such tests to the time
of loading.

5. Member States shall permit
the entry onto their
territory from the non-member country of origin of
bovine animals only if such animals:

(a) come from herds declared by the veterinary authorities
of the non-member country of origin to be enzootic
bovine leukosis free as defined in Annex V to this
Decision and have been subjected, within 30 days
before export and with negative result, to an indi-
vidual test for enzootic leukosis carried out according
to the protocol in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC;

or

(b) are intended for meat production, are not more than
30 months of age, come from herds which are

(1) OJ L 13, 16. 1. 1997, p. 28.
(2) OJ L 96, 17. 4. 1991, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 146, 14. 6. 1979, p. 15.

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included in a national programme for the eradication
of enzootic bovine leukosis and in which there has
been no evidence whatever of that disease for at least
two years and are permanently marked as described in
Annex VI to this Decision,

or

(c) come from herds which are included in a national
programme for the eradication of enzootic bovine
leukosis, are consigned directly to a slaughterhouse
and are slaugthered within five working days of their
arrival there.

In the case of the animals referred to in (b) and (c) above,
that such
Member States shall ensure, by inspection,
animals are clearly identified, shall supervise them until
slaughter and shall take all measures to prevent contam-
ination of indigenous herds.

6. Member States shall make the introduction onto
their territory of pigs from the country of origin subject to
a guarantee that they have not been vaccinated against
classical swine fever and, in the case of pigs intended for
breeding or production, a guarantee that they have shown
a negative result to a test for the antibody produced by
the virus of classical swinefever.

7. Member States shall not authorise the imports of
domestic animals of the bovine and porcine species other
than those as indicated in this Article.

Article 3

Pending the entry into force of any measures adopted by
the Community for the eradication, prevention or control
of a contagious or infectious bovine or porcine disease
other than rabies, tubercuosis, brucellosis, foot-and-mouth
disease, anthrax, rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuro-
pneumonia, enzootic bovine leukosis, porcine enteroviral
encephalomyelitis (Teschen disease), classical swine fever,
African swine fever or swine vesicular disease, Member
States may apply in respect of animals imported from the
country of origin such additional health conditions as
they apply to other animals within the framework of a
national programme, submitted to and approved by the
Commission, for the eradication, prevention or control of
such disease.

form that any two or more pages are part of an in-
tegrated whole and indivisible; each certificate shall
bear a code number on each page. This number shall
be issued by the central competent authority. The
health certificate shall be signed by an official veteri-
narian designated by the central competent authority
and countersigned and numbered by a senior veteri-
nary official specially appointed by the chief veteri-
nary officer to sign export certificates. The signature
and the stamp of the certificate must be in a different
colour to that of the printing;

(b) the original completed veterinary shall be drawn up in
the official language of the Member State of destina-
tion and the Member State in which the import
inspection at the border inspection post is carried out;

(c) the original completed veterinary certificate shall be
presented with the animals at the border inspection
post.

Article 5

This Decision will be reassessed as required by the
changing animal health situation in the Community and
in the European countries concerned from which the
imports are permitted.

Article 6

This Decision shall come into effect on 15 June 1998.

Article 7

92/322/EEC,

Decisions
92/325/EEC,
92/402/EEC, 93/181/EEC, 93/182/EEC, 93/183/EEC,
93/184/EEC, 94/321/EC, 96/185/EC and 96/186/EC are
repealed on the date referred to in Article 6.

92/323/EEC,

Article 8

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 4

Done at Brussels, 29 May 1998.

Member States shall authorise the importation of
live
animals of the bovine, porcine species subject to the fol-
lowing conditions:

(a) the certificate shall consist of a single sheet or, where
more than one page is required, shall be in such a

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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ANIMAL HEALTH GUARANTEES REQUESTED ON CERTIFICATION — LIVE ANIMALS

Country

Code

Breeding/production

Slaughter

Breeding/production

Slaughter

MC (1)

SG (2)

MC (1)

SG (2)

MC (1)

SG (2)

MC (1)

SG (2)

Bovine

SWINE

ALBANIA (3)

BOSNIA-
HERZEGOVINA (3)

BULGARIA

BELARUS

CZECH
REPUBLIC

ESTONIA (3)

FEDERAL
REPUBLIC
OF YUGOSLAVIA

CROATIA

HUNGARY

LITHUANIA (3)

LATVIA (3)

FORMER
YUGOSLAV
REPUBLIC
OF MACEDONIA

POLAND

ROMANIA

RUSSIA (3)

SLOVENIA

SLOVAK REPUBLIC

AL

BA

BG

BG-1

BG-2

BY

CZ

CZ-1

CZ-2

EE

FY

FY-1

FY-2

HR

HR-1

HR-2

HU

LI

LV

807

PL

RO

RU

SI

SK

—

—

—

A

—

—

A

A

A

—

—

—

B

—

—

B

B

B

A (3)

B (3)

—

—

—

—

A

—

A

A (3)

A (3)

—

A

A

—

A

A

—

—

—

—

B

—

B

B (3)

B (3)

—

B

B

—

B

B

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

C

—

—

—

—

—

—

C

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

D

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

D

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

—

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(1) MC: model of certificate to be fulfilled. The letters (A, B, C, D, . . .) appearing on the tables refer to the models of animal health guarantees as described in
Annex III, to be applied for each animal and origin in accordance with Article 2 of Decision 98/372/EC. A dash (—) indicates that imports are not au-
thorised.

(2) SG: Supplementary guarantees. The letters (a, b, c, d, . . .) appearing on the tables refer to the supplementary guarantees to be provided by the exporting
country as described in Annex IV. These supplementary guarantees must be inserted by the exporting country in section VI of each model of certificate
laid down in Annex III.

(3) The imports of domestic animals of the bovine and porcine species are not allowed in so far as a programme of control of residues in the exporting non-

member country has not been approved by the European Commission.

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MODEL A

For domestic animals of the bovine species for breeding and production intended for consign-
ment to the European Community

ANIMAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE

Code No (1)

(This certificate is only for veterinary purposes and the orginal must accompnay the consignment until it
reaches the border inspection post. It covers only animals in the same category, breeding or production,
transported in the same railway wagon, lorry, aircraft or ship and consigned to the same destination. It must
be completed within 24 hours before loading and all time limits referred to expire on that date.)

Exporting country: ......................................................... Code of territory: .........................................................

Ministry: .....................................................................................................................................................................

Competent issuing authority: ..................................................................................................................................

Country of destination: ............................................................................................................................................

Reference:

.................................................................................................................................................................
(optional)

Reference to accompanying animal welfare certificate: ......................................................................................

I. Number of animals:

................................................................................................................................

II. Origin of animals:

(in words)

Name(s) and address(es) of holding(s) of origin: ........................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent from (full address of place of loading): ........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

Name and address of consignor: .................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

III. Destination of animals

Name and address of consignee: .................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent to (country and place of destination): ...........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

by:

Means
of transport

Railway
wagon

Lorry

Aircraft

Ship

Identification (1)

(1) Indicate registration marks, flight number or registered name, as appropriate.

(1) Issued by the central competent authority.

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Code No

IV. Identification of animals (1)

Identification

Tests

Official
and
other marks
or brands
(Give
number and
position) (2)

Sex (3)

Breed

Date of
birth
(day/
month/
year)

Mastitis (4)

Tuber-
culosis (5)

Brucel-
losis (5)

EBL (5)

Others
specify
(6)

(1) When more animals need to be added, then a schedule must be used containing the above information and on

each page the code No and must be signed and stamped by the certifying official veterinarian.

(2) An ear tag must include the ISO code of the country of origin.

(3) M = male, F = female, C = castrated male.

(4) See section V.2 g(i).

(5) EBL = enzootic bovine leukosis.

Mark ‘+’ when the test is completed with negative results an ‘O’ when the test is not required.

(6) Indicate the coded letter(s) as laid down in Annex IV to the Decision 98/372/EC when a supplementary guarantee
is required. If an additional test for infectious bovine rhinotracheitits is required by the Member State of destina-
tion then use the code ‘IBR’.

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V. Health information

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify:

Code No

(1) that the territory described in Annex I to Commission Decision 98/372/EC with code . . . version
. . . has for the past 24 months been free of foot-and-mouth disease and for the past 12 months has
been free of rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, vesicular stomatitis and bluetongue
and that no vaccinations have been carried out against any of these diseases for the past 12 months
and that the importation of animals vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease is prohibited

(2) that the animals described in this certificate meet the following requirements:

(a) either

(i) they were born on the territory as described under V.1 and have remained there since

birth (1)

or

(ii) they were imported, not less than six months ago, from a Member State of the European
Community or from a non-member Country included in the list annexed to Council De-
cision 79/542/EEC, in so far as it covers domestic animals of this species, in accordance
with veterinary conditions at
least as strict as the relevant requirements of Directive
72/462/EEC, including any subsidiary decision (1)

(b) they have been examined to day and show no clinical signs of disease

(c) they have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease

(d) they come from herds which are not restricted under the national tuberculosis eradication legis-

lation, and as recorded at section IV

either

(i) they have been subjected to an intradermal tuberculin test within the past 30 days with

negative result (1)

and/or (1)

(ii) they are less than six weeks old (1);

(e) they come from herds which are not restricted under the national brucellosis eradication legisla-

tion and as recorded at section IV

either

(i) they have been subjected to a serum agglutination test which showed a brucella count of
less than 30 IU of agglutination per ml, within the past 30 days and they have not been
vaccinated against brucellosis (1)

and/or (1)

(ii) they are than 12 months old (1)

and/or (1)

(iii) they are castrated males of any age (1)

(f)

they come from herds declared by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)
to be enzootic bovine leukosis free as defined in Annex V to Commission Decision 98/372/EC
and as recorded at section IV,

either

(i) they have been subjected, within the past 30 days to an individual test for enzootic bovine

leukosis with negative result (1)

and/or (1)

(ii) they are intended for meat production, are not more than 30 months old, come from herds
which are included in a national programme for the eradication of enzootic bovine leukosis
and in which there has been no evidence whatever of that disease for the past two years and
are marked in the manner defined in Annex VI to Commission Decision 98/372/EC (1)

(1) Delete as appropriate.

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Code No

(g) as recorded at section IV,

either

(i) they show no clinical sign of mastitis and the analysis (and second analysis, where relevant)
of the milk, carried out according to Annex D to Council Directive 64/432/EEC within the
past 30 days showed no characteristic inflammatory condition, no specific pathogenic micro-
organism or, in the case of a second analysis, the presence of an antibiotic (1)

and/or (1)

(ii) they are not lactating cows (1)

(h) they are not animals which are to be destroyed under a national programme to control or erad-

icate contagious or infectious disease eradication programme

(i) each animal for the past 30 days or since birth if less than 30 days old, has remained on a single
holding situated in the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where, according to official findings
by the veterinary authorities of the exporting country, for the past 30 days there has been no
case of foot-and-mouth disease, and

either

(i) they will be sent directly from the holding of origin (1)

or

(ii) they have passed through assembly centre No . . ., officially approved by the competent

authorities in accordance with Annex II to Commission Decision 91/189/EEC (1)

(j)

they come from a holding or holdings on each of which there has been no evidence of:

— anthrax for the past 30 days

— brucellosis for the past 12 months

— tuberculosis for the past six months

— rabies for the past six months

(k) they have been continuously isolated, under conditions approved by an official veterinarian,
from all cloven-hooved animals not intended for export to the Community or not of equivalent
health status to such animals since the time of application of the first of the tests referred to in
this certificate (2)

(l)

they have been obtained directly from a holding or holdings without passing through any
market

(3) that I have received a declaration from the owner/agent that:

(a) the animals described in this certificate have not received any thyrostatic, oestrogenic, andro-

genic or gestagenic substances for fattening purposes

(b) until dispatched onto the territory of the European Community the animals described in this
certificate will not come into contact with any cloven-hooved animals other than bovine or
porcine animals meeting the requirements of Commission Decision 98/372/EC and will not be
at any place other than a place situated at the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where ac-
cording to official findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)

there has been no incidence of foot-and-mouth disease for the previous 30 days

(c) all transport vehicles or containers in which they will be loaded conform to international
standards for the transport of live animals, will have been previously cleaned and disinfected
with an officially authorised disinfectant and so constructed that faeces, urine, litter or fodder
cannot flow or fall out of the vehicle during transportation.

(1) Delete as appropriate.
(2) Delete if no tests are required.

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VI. Supplementary guarantees

(supplementary guarantees when required in Annex II and described in Annex IV to Commission
Decision 98/372/EC in application of Article 2(2) of this Decision).

VII. Additional health conditions

The animals described in this certificate have been subjected to the following test(s) with negative
results and conform to the following guarantees, as required by a Member State in application of
Article 3 of Commission Decision 98/372/EC (1).

VIII. All tests referred to in this certificate have, except where otherwise indicated, been carried out ac-

cording to the protocols set out in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC.

IX. This certificate is valid for 10 days from the date of loading.

Done at .........................................................................,

on ..................................................................................

(place)

(date)

(seal) (2)

(seal of the
central authority) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(signature of official veterinarian) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

.....................................................................................................
(countersignature and number of the senior veterinary official) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

(1) Complete or delete as required by the importing Member State.
(2) The signature and the stamp must be in different colour to that of the printing.

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ANIMAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE

for domestic animals of the bovine species for immediate slaughter intended for consignment to
the European Community

MODEL B

Code No (1)

(This certificate is only for veterinary purposes and must accompany the consignment until it reaches the
border inspection post. It covers only animals in the same category, immediate slaughter, transported in the
same railway wagon, lorry, aircraft or ship and consigned to the same destination. It must be completed
within 24 hours before loading and all time limits referred to expire on that date.)

Exporting country: ......................................................... Code of territory: .........................................................

Ministry: .....................................................................................................................................................................

Competent issuing authority: ..................................................................................................................................

Country of destination: ............................................................................................................................................

Reference:

.................................................................................................................................................................
(optional)

Reference to accompanying animal welfare certificate: ......................................................................................

I. Number of animals:

................................................................................................................................
(in words)

II. Origin of animals

Name(s) and address(es) of holding(s) of origin: ........................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent from (full address of place of loading) .........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

Name and address of consignor: .................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

III. Destination of animals

Name and address of consignee: .................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent to (country and place of destination): ...........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

by:

Means
of transport

Railway
wagon

Lorry

Aircraft

Ship

Identification (1)

(1) Indicate registration marks, flight number or registered name, as appropriate.

(1) Issued by the central competent authority.

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Code No

IV. Identification of animals (1)

Identification

Tests

Official and
other marks
or brands
(Give number and
position) (2)

Sex (3)

Breed

Date of
birth
(day/month/
year)

Tuberculosis (4)

Others
(specify) (5)

(1) When more animals need to be added, then a schedule must be used containing the above information and on

each page the code No and must be signed and stamped by the certifying official veterinarian.

(2) An ear tag must include the ISO code of the country of origin.

(3) M = male, F = female, C = castrated male.

(4) Mark ‘+’ and when the test is completed with negative results and ‘O’ when test is not required.

(5) Indicate the coded letter as laid down in Annex IV to Commission Decision 98/372/EC when a supplementary
guarantee is required. If an additional test is required by the Member State of destination, an identification code
will be established.

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V. Health information

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify:

Code No

(1) that the territory described in Annex I to Commission Decision 98/372/EC with code . . ., version
. . . has for the past 24 months been free of foot-and-mouth disease and for the past 12 months has
been free of rinderpest, contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, vesicular stomatitis and bluetongue
and that no vaccinations have been carried out against any of these diseases for the past 12 months
and that the importation of animals vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease is prohibited

(2) that the animals described in this certificate meet the following requirements:

(a) either:

(i) they were born on the territory as described under V.1 and have remained there since

birth (1)
or

(ii) they were imported, not less than three months ago, from a Member State of the European
Community or from a non-member country included in the list annexed to Council Deci-
sion 79/542/EEC in so far as if covers domestic animals of this species, in accordance with
veterinary conditions at least as strict as the relevant requirements of Directive 72/462/EEC,
including any subsidiary decisions (1)

(b) they have been examined today and show no clinical signs of disease

(c) they have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease

(d) they come from herds which are not restricted under the national tuberculosis eradication legis-

lation, and, as recorded at section IV

either

(i) they have been subjected within the past 30 days to an intradermal tuberculin test with

negative result (1)
and/or (1)

(ii) they are less than six weeks old (1)

(e) they come from herds which are not restricted under the national brucellosis eradication legisla-

tion and they have not been vaccinated against brucellosis

(f)

they come from herds included in a national programme for the eradication of enzootic bovine
leukosis

(g) they are not animals which are to be destroyed under a national contagious or infectious disease

eradication programme

(h) each animal has remained for the past 30 days, or since birth if less than 30 days old, on a
single holding situated in the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where, according to official
findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country),

for the past 30 days there has been no case of foot-and-mouth disease, and

either

(i) will be sent directly from the holding of origin (1)

or

(i)

(j)

(ii) they have passed through the assembly centre No . . ., officially approved by the competent

authorities in accordance with Annex II to Commission Decision 91/189/EEC (1)

they come from holdings on which there has been no evidence of anthrax for the past 30 days

they have been continuously isolated, under conditions approved by an official veterinarian,
from all cloven-hooved animals not intended for export to the community or not of equivalent
health status to such animals since the time of application of the first of the tests referred to in
this certificate (2)

(k) they have been obtained directly from a holding or holdings without passing through any

market

(1) Delete as appropriate.
(2) Delete if no tests are required.

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(3) that I have received a declaration from the owner/agent that

(a) the animals described in this certificate have not received any thyrostatic, oestrogenic, andro-

genic or gestagenic substances for fattening purposes

(b) until dispatched onto the territory of the European Community the animals described in this
certificate will not come into contact with any cloven-hooved animals other than bovine or
porcine animals meeting the requirements of (Commission Decision 98/372/EC) and will not
be at any place other than a place situated at the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter in which,
according to official findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)

there had been no incidence of foot-and-mouth disease for the previous 30 days

(c) all transport vehicles or containers in which they will be loaded conform to international
standards for the transport of live animals, will have been previously cleaned and disinfected
with an officially authorised disinfectant and so constructed that faeces, urine, litter or fodder
cannot flow or fall out of the vehicle during transportation.

VI. Supplementary guarantees

(supplementary guarantees when required in Annex II and described in Annex IV to Commission
Decision 98/372/EC in application of Article 2(2) of this Decision.)

VII. Additional health conditions

The animals described in this certificate have been subjected to the following test(s) with negative
result and conform to the following guarantees, as required by a Member State in application of Article
3 of Commission Decision 98/372/EC (1).

VIII. All tests referred to in the certificate have, except where otherwise indicated, been carried out ac-

cording to the protocols set out in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC.

IX. This certificate is valid for 10 days from the date of loading.

Done at .........................................................................,

on ..................................................................................

(place)

(date)

(seal) (2)

(seal of the
central authority) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(signature of official veterinarian) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

.....................................................................................................
(countersignature and number of the senior veterinary official) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

(1) Complete or delete as required by the importing Member State.
(2) The signature and the stamp must be in a different colour to that of the printing.

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ANIMAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE

for domestic animals of the porcine species for breeding and production intended for consign-
ment to the European Community

MODEL C

Code No (1)

(This certificate is only for veterinary purposes and must accompany the consignment until it reaches the
border inspection post. It covers only animals in the same category, breeding or production, transported in
the same railway wagon, lorry, aircraft or ship and consigned to the same destination. It must be completed
within 24 hours before loading and all time limits referred to expire on that date.)

Exporting country: ......................................................... Code of territory: .........................................................

Ministry: .....................................................................................................................................................................

Competent issuing authority: ..................................................................................................................................

Country of destination: ............................................................................................................................................

Reference:

.................................................................................................................................................................
(optional)

Reference to accompanying animal welfare certificate: ......................................................................................

I. Number of animals:

................................................................................................................................
(in words)

II. Origin of animals

Name(s) and address(es) of holding(s) of origin: ........................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent from (full address of place of loading): ........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

Name and address of consignor: .................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

III. Destination of animals

Name and address of consignee: .................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent to (country and place of destination): ...........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

by:

Means
of transport

Railway
wagon

Lorry

Aircraft

Ship

Identification (1)

(1) Indicate registration marks, flight number or registered name, as appropiate.

(1) Issued by the central competent authority.

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IV. Identification of animals (1)

Identification

Tests

Official and
other marks
or brands
(Give number
and position) (2)

Sex (3)

Breed

Age
(months)

SVD (4)

Brucel-
losis (4)

CSF (4)

Others
specify (5)

(1) When more animals need to be added, then a schedule must be used containing the above information on each

page the code No and must be signed and stamped by the certifying official veterinarian.

(2) An ear tag must include the ISO code of the country of origin.

(3) M = male, F = female, C = castrated male.

(4) SVD = swine vesicular disease.

CSF = classical swine fever.
Mark ‘+’ when the test completed with negative results and ‘O’ when the test is not required.

(5) Indicate the coded letter as laid down in Annex IV to Commission Decision 98/372/EC when a supplementary
guarantee is required. If an additional test is required by the Member State the code ‘AD’ will be inserted for
Aujezsky disease and the code ‘TGE’ for transmissible gastroenteritis.

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V. Health information

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify:

Code No

(1) that the territory described in Annex I to Commission Decision 98/372/EC with code . . ., version
. . . has for the past 24 months been free of foot-and-mouth disease and for the past 12 months has
been free of vesicular stomatitis, classical swine fever, African swine fever, porcine enteroviral en-
cephalomyelitis (Teschen disease), swine vesicular disease and vesicular exanthema and that no vac-
cinations have been carried out against any of these diseases for the past 12 months and that the
importation of animals vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and classical swine fever is
prohibited

(2) the animals described in this certificate meet the following requirements:

(a) either

(i) they were born on the territory as described under V.1 and have remained there since

birth (1)
or

(ii) they were imported, not less than six months ago, from a Member State of the European
Community or from a non-member country included in the list annexed to Council De-
cision 79/542/EEC, in so far as it covers domestic animals of this species in accordance with
veterinary conditions at least as strict as the relevant requirements of Directive 72/462/EEC,
including any subsidiary decisions (1)

(b) they have been examined today and show no clinical signs of disease

(c) they have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease or against classical swine fever,
and, as recorded in section IV they have been subjected within the past 30 days to a test for
swine vesicular disease antibodies and a test for classical swine fever antibodies with negative
results in both cases

(d) they come from swine herds which are not restricted under the national brucellosis eradication

legislation and, as recorded in section IV

either

(i) have been subjected within the past 30 days to a serum agglutination test which showed a
brucella count of less than 30 IU of agglutination and with negative result to a complement-
fixation test for brucellosis
or/and (1)

(ii) are under four months old (1)

(e) they are not animals which are to be destroyed under a national contagious or infectious disease

eradication programme

(f) each animal has remained for the past 30 days, or since birth if less than 30 days old, on a
single holding situated in the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where, according to official
findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)
for the past 30 days there have been no cases of foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever,
African swine fever and swine vesicular disease and

either

(i) they will be sent directly from the holding of origin (1)

or

(ii) they have passed through assembly centre No . . ., officially approved by the competent

authorities in accordance with Annex II to Commission Decision 91/189/EEC (1)

(g) they come from holdings on which there has been no evidence of:

— anthrax for the past 30 days
— rabies for the past six months

(h) they have been continuously isolated under conditions approved by an official veterinarian,
from all cloven-hooved animals not intended for export to the Community or not of equivalent
health status to such animals since the time of application of the first of the tests referred to in
this certificate

(i)

they have been obtained directly from a holding without passing through any market

(1) Delete as appropriate.

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(3) that I have received a declaration from the owner/agent that:

(a) the animals described in this certificate have not received any thyrostatic, oestrogenic, andro-

genic or gestagenic substances for fattening purposes

(b) until dispatched onto the territory of the European Community the animals described in this
certificate will not come into contact with any cloven-hooved animals other than bovine or
porcine animals meeting the requirements of (Commission Decision 98/372/EC) and will not
be at any place other than a place situated at the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where,
according to official findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)
there has been no incidence of foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, African swine
fever or swine vesicular disease for the previous 30 days

(c) all transport vehicles or containers in which they will be loaded conform to international
standards for the transport of live animals, will have been previously cleaned and disinfected
with an officially authorised disinfectant and so constructed that faeces, urine, litter or fodder
cannot flow or fall out of the vehicle during transportation.

VI. Supplementary guarantees

(supplementary guarantees when required in Annex II and described in Annex IV to Commission
Decision 98/372/EC in application of Article 2(2) of this Decision)

VII. Additional health conditions

The animals described in this certificate have been subjected to the following test(s) with negative
result and conform to the following guarantees, as required by a Member State in application of Article
3 of Commission Decision 98/372/EC (1)

VIII. All tests referred to in the certificate have, except where otherwise indicated, been carried out ac-

cording to the protocols set out in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC.

IX. This certificate is valid for 10 days from the date of loading.

Done at

.....................................................................,
(place)

on ................................................................................

(date)

(seal) (2)

(seal of the
central authority) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(signature of official veterinarian) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

.....................................................................................................
(countersignature and number of the senior veterinary official) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

(1) The signature and the stamp must be in different colour to that of the printing.
(2) Complete or delete as required by importing Member State.

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ANIMAL HEALTH CERTIFICATE

for domestic animals of the porcine species for immediate slaughter intended for consignment to
the European Community

MODEL D

Code No (1)

(This certificate is only for veterinary purposes and must accompany the consignment until it reaches the
border inspection post. It covers only animals in the same category, immediate slaughter, transported in the
same railway wagon, lorry, aircraft or ship and consigned to the same destination. It must be completed
within 24 hours before loading and all time limits referred to expire on that date.)

Exporting country: ......................................................... Code of territory: .........................................................

Ministry: .....................................................................................................................................................................

Competent issuing authority: ..................................................................................................................................

Country of destination: ............................................................................................................................................

Reference: ..................................................................................................................................................................

(optional)

Reference to accompanying animal welfare certificate: ......................................................................................

I. Number of animals:

................................................................................................................................
(in words)

II. Origin of animals

Name(s) and address(es) of holdings(s) of origin: ......................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent from (full address of place of loading): ........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

Name and address of consignor: .................................................................................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

III. Destination of animals

Name and address of consignee: .................................................................................................................

The animals will be sent to (country and place of destination): ...........................................................

..........................................................................................................................................................................

by:

Means
of transport

Identification (1)

Railway wagon

Lorry

Aircraft

Ship

(1) Indicate registration marks, flight number or registered name, as appropriate.

(1) Issued by the central competent authority.

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IV. Identification of animals (1)

Official and other
marks or brands
(Give number
and position) (2)

Identification

Sex (3)

Breed

Age
(months)

Tests

Others (4)

(1) When more animals need to be added, then a schedule must be used containing the above information and on

each page the code No and must be signed and stamped by the certifying official veterinarian.

(2) An ear tag must include the ISO code of the country of origin.

(3) M = male, F = female, C = castrated male.

(4) Indicate the code letter as laid down in Annex IV to Commission Decision 98/372/EC when a supplementary
guarantee is required. If an additional test is required by the Member State the code ‘AD’ will be inserted for
Aujezsky disease and the code ‘TGE’ for transmissible gatroenteritis.

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V. Health information

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify:

(1) that the the territory described in Annex I to Commission Decision 98/372/EC with code . . .,
version . . . has for the past 24 months been free of foot-and-mouth disease and for the past 12
months been free of vesicular stomatitis, classical swine fever, African swine fever , porcine entero-
viral encephalomyelitis (Teschen disease), swine vesicular disease and vesicular exanthema and that
no vaccinations have been carried out against any of these diseases for the past 12 months and that
the importation of animals vaccinated against foot-and-mouth diesease and classical swine fever is
prohibited

(2) that the animals described in this certificate meet the following requirements:

(a) either

(i) they were born on the territory as described under V.1 and have remained there since

birth (1)

or

(ii) they were imported, not less than three months ago, from a Member State of the European
Community or from a non-member country included in the list annexed to Council Deci-
sion 79/542/EEC, in so far as if covers domestic animals of this species, in accordance with
veterinary conditions at least as strict as the relevant requirements of Directive 72/462/EEC,
including any subsidiary decisions (1)

(b) they have been examined today and show no clinical signs of disease

(c) they have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth diesease or against classical swine fever

(d) they are not animals which are to be destroyed under a national contagious or infectious

diesease eradication programme

(e) each animal has remained for the past 30 days, or since birth if less than 30 days old, on a
single holding situated in the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where, according to official
findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)
for the past 30 days there have been no cases of foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever,
African swine fever, and swine vesicular disease, and

either

(i) will be sent directly from the holding of origin (1)

or

(ii) have passed through the assembly centre No . . ., officially approved by the competent

authorities in accordance with Annex II to Commission Decision 91/189/EEC (1)

(f)

they come from holdings on which there has been no evidence of anthrax for the past 30 days

(g) they have been continuously isolated, under conditions approved by an official veterinarian,
from all cloven-hooved animals not intended for export to the Community or not of equivalent
health status to such animals since the time of application of the first of the tests referred to in
this certificate (2)

(h) they have been obtained directly from a holding of holdings without passing through any

market

(3) that I have received a declaration from the owner/agent that:

(a) the animals described in this certificate have not received any thyrostatic, oestrogenic, andro-

genic or gestagenic substances for fattening purposes

(1) Delete as appropriate.
(2) Delete if no tests are required.

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(b) until dispatched onto the territory of the European Community the animals described in this
certificate will not come into contact with any cloven-hooved animals other than bovine or
porcine animals meeting the requirements of Commission Decision 98/372/EC and will not be
at any place other than a place situated at the centre of a circle 20 km in diameter where, ac-
cording to official findings by the veterinary authorities of

..............................................................................................................................................................
(exporting country)
there has been no incidence of foot-and-mouth disease, classical swine fever, African swine fever
or swine vesicular disease for the previous 30 days

(c) any transport vehicles or containers in which they will be loaded conform to international
standards for the transport of live animals, will have been previously cleaned and disinfected
with an officially authorised disinfectant and so constructed that faeces, urine, litter or fodder
cannot flow or fall out of the vehicle during transportation.

VI. Supplementary guarantees

(supplementary guarantees when required in Annex II and described in Annex IV to Commission
Decision 98/372/EC in application of Article 2(2) of this Decision).

VII. Additional health conditions

The animals described in this certificate have been subjected to the following test(s) with negative
results and conform to the following guarantees, as required by a Member State in application of
Article 3 of Commission Decision 98/372/EC (1).

VIII. All tests referred to in the certificate have, except where otherwise indicated, been carried out accor-

ding to the protocols set out in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC.

IX. This certificate is valid for 10 days from the date of loading.

Done at .........................................................................,

on ..................................................................................

(place)

(date)

(seal) (2)

(seal of the
central authority) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(signature of official veterinarian) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

.....................................................................................................
(countersignature and number of the senior veterinary official) (2)

.....................................................................................................
(name in capital letters, qualifications and title)

(1) Complete or delete as required by importing Member State.
(2) The signature and the stamp must be in a different colour to that of the printing.

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ANNEX IV

Supplementary guarantees to be provided by the exporting territory when required in Annex II in applica-
tion of Article 2(2).

(a) The animals described in this certificate have reacted negatively to a foot-and-mounth virus test carried

out by the laryngo-pharyngeal scrape method (probang test).

(b) The animals described in this certificate have reacted negatively to a serological test carried out to detect

the presence of foot-and-mouth antibodies.

(c) The animals described in this certificate have been isolated for at least 14 days immediately prior to
loading for export at a quarantine station in the territory of origin under the surveillance of an official
veterinarian, no animal on the premises of isolation having been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth
disease during the 21 days preceding exportation and no animal other than those forming part of the
consignment having been introduced to the premises of isolation during the same period.

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Enzootic bovine leukosis-free herds and regions

1. A herd becomes established as enzootic bovine leukosis-free when:

(a)

(i) there has been no evidence whatever of enzootic bovine leukosis in the herd for a period of at least

two years

and

(ii) it has been subjected with negative result to two herd-tests for enzootic bovine leukosis at an
interval of not less than four and not more than 12 months, each herd-test consisting of one of the
serological tests described in Annex I to Decision 91/189/EEC applied to all bovine animals in the
herd over 24 months old on the date of the test

or

(b) the region in which it is situated becomes established as an enzootic bovine leukosis-free region,
provided the status of the herd is not at the time suspended under the terms of paragraph 5.

2. A region becomes established as enzootic bovine leukosis-free when:

(a) at least 99,8 % of bovine herds have the status of enzootic bovine leukosis-free

or

(b)

(i) there has been no evidence whatever of enzootic bovine leukosis in the region for a period of at

least three years

and

(ii) all bovine herds in the region have been subjected to at least one herd-test as described in para-

graph 1

and

(iii) at least 10 % of bovine herds in the region, selected on a random basis, have been subjected with

negative result to at least two herd-tests as described in paragraph 1.

3. A herd maintains its status as enzootic bovine leukosis-free as long as:

(a) there is no evidence whatever of enzootic bovine leukosis in the herd

(b) all the bovine animals in the herd were born there or were introduced from herds of enzootic bovine

leukosis-free status

and

(c) within three years of the date of its establishment as enzootic bovine leukosis-free, and at intervals of
not more than three years thereafter, it is subjected with negative result to a herd-test as described in
paragraph 1.

4. A region maintains its status as enzootic bovine leukosis-free as long as:

(a) each year, a proportion of the herds in the region, selected on a random basis and sufficient in number
to demonstrate, with a 99 % confidence rating, that not more than 0,2 % of herds are infected with
enzootic bovine leukosis, have been subjected to a herd test as described in paragraph 1, or

(b) each year, a proportion of the herds in the region, sufficient to contain at least 20 % of the bovine
animals in the region over 24 months of age, have been subjected with negative result to a herd test as
described in paragraph 1.

5. The enzootic bovine leukosis free status of a herd is suspended when:

(a) the conditions described in paragraph 3 cease to apply, or

(b) one or more animals give a positive result to one of the serological tests described in Annex I to De-

cision 91/189/EEC.

6. The enzootic bovine leukosis-free status of a region is suspended when:

(a) the conditions described in paragraph 4 cease to apply, or

(b) enzootic bovine leukosis is detected and confirmed in more than 0,2 % of bovine herds in the region.

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7. The enzootic bovine leukosis-free status of a herd is reestablished when:

(a) any reactor animal and, if the reactor is a cow, its progeny in the herd have been removed under the
supervision of the veterinary authorities for slaughter, except that the competent authority may grant a
derogation from the requirement for the removal of the progeny of a reactor cow if it is satisfied that
the animal(s) was/were separated from its/their dam immediately after birth, and

(b)

(i) if the suspension results from a positive test on a single animal, the herd has been subjected with
negative result and not less than three months after the withdrawal referred to in paragraph 7(a) to
a herd-test as described in paragraph 1, or

(ii) if the suspension results from a positive test on more than one animal, the herd has been subjected
to two herd-tests as described in paragraph 1, the first being applied not less than three months
after the withdarwl referred to in paragraph 7(a) and the second not less than four or more than 12
months later, the tests to include any progeny of a rector cow retained in the herd under the dero-
gation referred to in paragraph 7(a), regardless of their age at the time of test, and

(c) an epizootological enquiry has been conducted on all herds epizootologically linked to the infected

herd.

8. The enzootic bovine leukosis-free status of a region is reestablished when:

(a) at least 99,8 % of bovine herds in the region have the status of enzootic bovine leukosis-free, and

(b) at least 20 % of bovine herds in the region have been subjected with negative result to two herd-tests
as described in paragraph 1, at an interval of not less than four and not more than 12 months.

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Mark to be applied to bovine animals in application of Article 2(5)(b)

A permanent mark, having the dimensions indicated below, applied to and visible on at least two
places on the hindquarters of each animal using the technique known as ‘freeze-branding’.