CELEX: 51983PC0783(02)
Language: en
Date: 1984-01-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL DIRECTIVE AMENDING DIRECTIVE 80/217/EEC INTRODUCING COMMUNITY MEASURES FOR THE CONTROL OF CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER

N o 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                                        3. Article 14 shall be replaced by the following:
COMMUNITIES,                                                          'Article 14
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                          Member States shall ensure that the following
European Economic Community, and in particular                        measures are applied:
Article 43 thereof,
                                                                      1.    In general:
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                    — the use of specific immune-serum or sero-
                                                                          vaccination is prohibited,
Having regard to the opinion of the                European           — the manufacture, sale, distribution and use of
Parliament,                                                               swine fever vaccine are placed under official
                                                                          control,
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and
                                                                      — requirements relating to swine fever vaccine
Social Committee,
                                                                          established in accordance with the procedure
                                                                          laid down in Article 16 are observed,
Whereas Council Directive 80/217/EEC (*), as last
amended by Directive 81/476/EEC (2), introduced                       — swine fever vaccines imported from non-
Community measures to be applied in the event of                          member countries are authorized and checked
suspected or confirmed cases of classical swine fever;                    by the competent authority in the importing
                                                                          Member State and are subject to the same
Whereas, in view of the way in which the disease has                      conditions in respect of sale, distribution and
developed, the measures implemented should be                             use as apply to vaccines produced in the
stepped up;                                                               Member States.
                                                                      2.    Where swine fever is detected on one or
Whereas the conditions for carrying out the
                                                                      more holdings or in one or more production units,
protective vaccination of herds threatened with
                                                                      the measures to control the disease may be
contamination and the conditions for controlling the
                                                                      supplemented by the prompt vaccination under
movement of livestock should be specified;
                                                                      official control of pigs in other production units or
                                                                      on other holdings threatened with contamination
Whereas, in the event of the disease assuming serious
                                                                      in a territorial vaccination area demarcated by the
epizootic proportions, it must be possible to make
                                                                      competent authority. The vaccinated pigs shall
regional measures, in particular protective vacci-
                                                                      be permanently marked in accordance with the
nation, compulsory; whereas, to this end, provision
                                                                      instructions issued by the competent authority.
should be made for a rapid procedure for initiating
close cooperation between the Member States and the                   (a) Vaccination may be carried out systematically
Commission,                                                                on all the pigs in the vaccination area. In this
                                                                           case, the following measures shall be applied:
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:                                                  (i) all pigs kept on holdings inside the vac-
                                                                                 cination area shall be vaccinated as soon
                            Article 1                                            as possible,
                                                                            (ii) all pigs kept on holdings inside the vac-
Directive 80/217/EEC is hereby amended as follows:
                                                                                 cination     area   must    remain     there
                                                                                 throughout the vaccination operations,
 1. In the seventh indent of Article 5, '15 days' shall
    be replaced by '30 days'.                                              (iii) any pigs born on or transferred to a
                                                                                 holding inside the vaccination area within
2. In Article 9 (2) (b) and in the first subparagraph                            six months of the completion of the vac-
    of Article 9 (3), '15 days' shall be replaced by                             cination operations referred to in (i) shall
    '30 days'.                                                                   be vaccinated,
                                                                           (iv) in order to be allowed to leave the vac-
                                                                                 cination area, live vaccinated pigs must be
(') O J N o L 4 7 , 21.2. 1980, p. 11.                                           intended for immediate slaughter and
O OJ No L 186, 8. 7. 1981, p. 20.                                                have been vaccinated at least 21 days
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              beforehand. However, four months after                  holding situated inside or outside the area, no pigs
              completion of the vaccination operations                may leave this receiving holding except for
              referred to in (i), the competent authority             immediate slaughter for a 30-day period expiring
              may authorize the departure of vaccinated               after either the reception of the pigs coming from
              pigs intended for fattening, provided they              a high health risk area or in the case of pregnant
              are transferred under official control and              pigs from such an area after farrowing.
              the receiving holding contains only pigs
                                                                     The measures laid down in the two previous
              for fattening and is kept under official
                                                                      paragraphs shall be discontinued six months after
              surveillance until the vaccinated pigs are
                                                                      the elimination of the last outbreak of classical
              slaughtered.
                                                                      swine fever in the high health risk area.'
   (b) Vaccination may concern only pigs for
        fattening in the vaccination area, in which case          5. The following Article 16a shall be inserted:
        no vaccinated pig may leave the holding on                     'Article 16a
        which it is kept except to be taken to a slaugh-
        terhouse for slaughter. In such a case, the                   1.     Where the procedure laid down in this
        following measures shall be applied:                         Article is to be followed, the matter shall without
                                                                      delay be referred by the chairman, either on his
          (i) all pigs on holdings containing pigs for                own initiative or at the request of a Member State,
              fattening shall be vaccinated as soon as                to the Committee.
              possible,
                                                                      2.     Within the Committee, the votes of the
         (ii) during the vaccination operations, and for              Member States shall be weighted as laid down in
              21 days following completion of these                  Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The chairman shall
              operations, live pigs must remain in the                not vote.
              vaccination area,
                                                                      3.     The representative of the Commission shall
        (iii) for six months following the lifting of the             submit a draft of the measures to be adopted. The
              measures laid down in (ii):                             Committee shall deliver its opinion on these
              — all pigs for fattening brought to                     measures within two days. Opinions shall be
                  holdings in the vaccination area shall              delivered by a majority of 45 votes.
                  be vaccinated,
                                                                      4.     The Commission shall adopt the measures
              — piglets for fattening originating in the              and shall implement them immediately, where they
                  vaccination area may be transferred                 are in accordance with the opinion of the
                  only to holdings inside a vaccination               Committee. Where the measures envisaged are not
                  area,                                               in accordance with the opinion of the Committee,
              — where live breeding pigs are moved                    or if no opinion is delivered, the Commission shall,
                  from holdings inside to holdings                    without delay, submit to the Council a proposal on
                  outside the vaccination area, no pigs               the measures to be taken. The Council shall adopt
                  shall be allowed to leave the latter                the measures by a qualified majority.
                  holdings,     except    for     immediate
                  slaughter, for 30 days following the                5.     If the Council has not adopted any measures
                  arrival of the pigs from the vaccination            within 15 days of the date on which the matter is
                  area; in the case of in-pig sows, the               referred to it, the Commission shall adopt the
                  30-day period shall commence on                     proposed measures and shall implement them
                  farrowing.'                                         immediately unless the Council has voted against
                                                                      the measures by a simple majority.'
4. The following Article 14a shall be inserted:
                                                                                            Article 2
    'Article 14a
                                                                  Member States shall bring into force the laws, regu-
   Where an epizootic of swine fever is exceptionally             lations and administrative provisions necessary to
   serious and is tending to spread, a decision may be            comply with this Directive not later than 1 July 1984.
   taken in accordance with the procedure laid down
   in Article 16a to declare a demarcated territorial             The shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
   area a high health risk area.
                                                                                            Article 3
   When live pigs kept in a holding situated in a high
   health risk area are introduced into another                   This Directive is addressed to the Member States.