2006/274/EC: Commission Decision of  6 April 2006  concerning certain protection measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany and repealing Decision 2006/254/EC  (notified under document number C(2006) 1556)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-04-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Germany, animal breeding, animal plague, health certificate, swine, trade restriction, veterinary inspection

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 April 2006

concerning certain protection measures relating to classical swine fever in Germany and repealing
Decision 2006/254/EC

(notified under document number C(2006) 1556)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/274/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 90/425/EEC of 26 June
1990 concerning veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable
in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and products
with a view to the completion of the internal market (1), and in
particular Article 10(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Outbreaks of classical swine fever have occurred in
Germany.

In view of the trade in live pigs and certain pig products,
those outbreaks are liable to endanger the herds of other
Members States.

Commission Decision 2006/254/EC of 28 March 2006
concerning certain interim protection measures relating
to Classical Swine Fever in Germany (2) was therefore
adopted in order to reinforce the measures taken by
Germany pursuant to Council Directive 2001/89/EC of
23 October 2001 on Community measures for
the
control of classical swine fever (3).

The animal health conditions and the
certification
requirements for trade in live pigs are laid down in
Council Directive 64/432/EEC of 26 June 1964 on
animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade
in bovine animals and swine (4).

health

animal

The
certification
requirements for trade in porcine semen are laid down
in Council Directive 90/429/EEC of 26 June 1990 laying

conditions

and

(1) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29. Directive as last amended by Directive
(OJ
2002/33/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
L 315, 19.11.2002, p. 14).
(2) OJ L 91, 29.3.2006, p. 61.
(3) OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as amended by the 2003 Act of

Accession.

down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-
Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic
animals of the porcine species (5).

and

health

animal

conditions

The
certification
requirements for trade in porcine ova and embryos are
laid down in Commission Decision 95/483/EC of 9
November 1995 determining the specimen certificate
for
intra-Community trade in ova and embryos of
swine (6).

Commission Decision 2002/106/EC of 1 February 2002
approving a Diagnostic Manual establishing diagnostic
procedures, sampling methods and criteria for evaluation
of the laboratory tests for the confirmation of classical
swine fever (7) provides for
risk adapted surveillance
protocols.

Based on the information provided by Germany it is
appropriate to maintain protective measures relating to
classical swine fever in Germany for a period sufficient to
complete the necessary investigations.

is also necessary to extent

the measures so as to
It
in
minimise contacts
certain parts of Germany and to require a regional
limitation of certain services related to pigs so as to
prevent spread of disease.

to and between pig holdings

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10) Decision 2006/254/EC should be repealed.

(11)

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

(5) OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 62. Directive as last amended by Council

Regulation (EC) No 806/2003 (OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1).

(4) OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 1977/64. Directive as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1/2005 (OJ L 3, 5.1.2005, p. 1).

(6) OJ L 275, 18.11.1995, p. 30.
(7) OJ L 39, 9.2.2002, p. 71.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(a) directly to a slaughterhouse situated within those areas; or

Article 1

Germany shall ensure that no pigs are dispatched from its

1.
territory to other Member States and to third countries.

By derogation from paragraph 1, Germany may authorise
2.
the direct transport of slaughter pigs to a slaughterhouse outside
Germany for immediate slaughter, provided that the pigs have
been resident for at least 60 days, or since birth if less than 60
days of age, on a single holding which

(a)

is situated outside the areas listed in Annex I, and

(b) in exceptional cases,

to designated slaughterhouses
areas,

in
immediate
Germany located outside
slaughter, provided the pigs are dispatched from a holding
on which the examinations in accordance with Chapter IV
(D) (3) of Decision 2002/106/EC have been completed with
negative results.

those

for

Article 3

Germany shall ensure that no consignments of the following
commodities are dispatched to other Member States and to
third countries:

(b) has not received live pigs during the 60-day period imme-

diately prior to the date of dispatch of the pigs,

(a) porcine semen, unless the semen originates from boars kept
at a collection centre referred to in Article 3(a) of Directive
90/429/EEC and situated outside the areas listed in Annex I;

(c) on which the examinations in accordance with Chapter IV
(D) (3) of Decision 2002/106/EC have been completed with
negative results.

The competent veterinary authority of Germany shall
3.
ensure that the notification of the dispatch of pigs to other
Member States
is communicated to the central and local
veterinary authorities of the Member State of destination and
any Member State of transit at least three days before the date
of dispatch.

(b) ova and embryos of swine, unless the ova and embryos
originate from swine kept at a holding situated outside
the areas listed in Annex I.

Article 4

Germany shall ensure that the health certificate provided for in:

Article 2

(a) Directive 64/432/EEC accompanying pigs dispatched from

Germany must be completed by the following:

1. Without prejudice to the measures provided for
in
Directive 2001/89/EC, and in particular Articles 9, 10 and 11
thereof, Germany shall ensure that

(a) no pigs are transported from and to holdings situated

within the areas listed in Annex I;

for

(b) transport of pigs

slaughter coming from holdings
situated outside the area listed in Annex I to slaughter-
houses
located within those areas and transit of pigs
through those areas is only allowed:

(i) via major roads or railways; and

in

‘Animals
accordance with Commission Decision
2006/274/EC of 6 April 2006 concerning
certain
protection measures relating to classical swine fever in
Germany’.

(b) Directive 90/429/EEC accompanying semen from boars
dispatched from Germany must be completed by the
following:

in

accordance with

‘Semen
Commission Decision
certain
2006/274/EC of 6 April 2006 concerning
protection measures relating to classical swine fever in
Germany’.

(ii) in accordance with the detailed instructions provided for
by the competent authority to prevent
the pigs in
question coming into direct or indirect contact with
other pigs during transport.

(c) Decision 95/483/EC accompanying ova and embryos of
swine dispatched from Germany must be completed by
the following:

By way of derogation from paragraph 1(a) and not earlier
2.
than 10 days after coming into force of
this Decision the
competent authority may authorise the transport of pigs from
a holding situated within the areas listed in Annex I:

(delete as appropriate)

‘Ova/Embryos
in accordance with
Commission Decision 2006/274/EC of 6 April 2006
concerning certain protection measures relating to classical
swine fever in Germany’.

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Article 5

Germany shall ensure that:

Germany are cleaned and disinfected twice after each
operation; and suspended from transport of pigs for not
less than 3 days;

1. within the areas listed in Annex I risk based zones are
defined by the competent authorities and that at least the
services provided by persons in direct contact to pigs or
requiring entering the housing areas for pigs and the use
of vehicles for transport of feed, manure or dead animals
to and from pig holdings situated in the areas listed in
Annexe I are limited to those compartments and are not
the Community, unless after
shared with other parts of
thorough cleansing
vehicles,
equipment and any other fomite and a minimum absence
of any contact to pigs or pig holdings of at least 3 days;

and disinfection of

the

(b) the transporters furnish proof to the competent authority of

such disinfection.

Article 7

The Member States shall amend the measures they apply to
trade so as to bring them into compliance with this Decision
and they shall give immediate appropriate publicity to the
inform the
shall
measures
Commission thereof.

adopted. They

immediately

2.

in the areas listed in Annex I surveillance measures are
in accordance with the principles set up in
carried out
Annex II;

Article 8

This Decision shall apply until 15 May 2006.

3. preventive disease control measures are applied as necessary,
(a) of Council Directive

in accordance with Article 4 (3)
2001/89/EC;

Article 9

Decision 2006/254/EC is repealed.

4. an appropriate information campaign is addressed to pig

farmers.

Article 10

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

1. Member States shall not send pigs to slaughterhouses in
the areas listed in Annex I.

Done at Brussels, 6 April 2006.

2. Member States shall ensure that:

(a) vehicles which have been used for the transport of pigs in
Germany or have entered a holding where pigs are kept in

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Areas in Germany referred to in Articles 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6:

The whole of the territory of North Rhine-Westfalia.

ANNEX II

In accordance with Article 5(2), Germany shall ensure that in the areas listed in Annex I the following surveillance
measures are implemented:

(a) any case of a contagious disease in pig holdings for which a treatment with antibiotic or other antibacterial drugs is
indicated, shall be reported to the competent veterinary authorities without delay and before treatment is commenced,

(b) in the pig holdings referred to in (a), the clinical examinations and sampling procedures laid down in Chapter IV (A)

of the Annex to Commission Decision 2002/106/EC are carried out by a veterinarian without delay.