Article 1 
This Directive lays down the animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to the animal health requirements laid down in the specific Community acts referred to in Annex F. This Directive shall apply without prejudice to the provisions adopted pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82. This Directive shall not affect the national rules applicable to pet animals, although their retention may not jeopardize the abolition of veterinary checks at the frontiers between Member States.
Article 2 
1. For the purposes of this Directive: (a) ‘trade’trademeans trade as defined by Article 2 (3) of Directive 90/425/EEC; (b) ‘animals’means specimens of animal species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC ( 9 ), 90/539/EEC ( 10 ), 91/67/EEC ( 11 ), 91/68/EEC ( 12 ), 91/492/EEC ( 13 ) and 91/493/EEC ( 14 ); (c) ‘approved body, institute or centre’ means any permanent, geographically limited establishment, approved in accordance with Article 13, where one or more species of animal are habitually kept or bred, whether or not for commercial ends, and exclusively for one or more of the following purposes: — display of the animals and education of the public — conservation of the species; — basic or applied scientific research or breeding of animals for the purposes of such research; means any permanent, geographically limited establishment, approved in accordance with Article 13, where one or more species of animal are habitually kept or bred, whether or not for commercial ends, and exclusively for one or more of the following purposes: — display of the animals and education of the public — conservation of the species; — basic or applied scientific research or breeding of animals for the purposes of such research; (d) ‘notifiable diseases’means the diseases listed in Annex A. 2. In addition, the definitions, other than those of approved centres and bodies, contained in Article 2 of Directives 64/432/EEC, 91/67/EEC and 90/539/EEC shall apply mutatis mutandis .
Article 3 
The Member States shall ensure that the trade referred to in Article 1, first paragraph, is not prohibited or restricted for animal health reasons other than those arising from the application of this Directive or from Community legislation, and in particular any safeguard measures taken. Pending Community provisions on the matter, Sweden may maintain its national rules as regards snakes and other reptiles consigned to it.
Article 4 
Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that, for the purposes of applying Article 4 (1) (a) of Directive 90/425/EEC, the animals referred to in Articles 5 to 10 of this Directive may without prejudice to Article 13 and to the particular provisions to be adopted in implementation of Article 24, be the subject of trade only if they satisfy the conditions laid down in Articles 5 to 10 and come from the holdings or businesses referred to in Article 12 (1) and (3) of this Directive which are registered by the competent authority and which undertake to: — have the animals held examined regularly in accordance with Article 3 (3) of Directive 90/425/EEC, — notify the competent authority, aside from the outbreak of notifiable diseases, of the outbreak of the diseases referred to in Annex B for which the Member State concerned has drawn up a control or monitoring programme, — comply with the specific national measures to control a disease which is of particular importance to a given Member State and is covered by a programme drawn up in accordance with Article 14 or a decision under Articles 15 (2), — place on the market for the purposes of trade only animals which show no signs of disease and which come from holdings or areas not subject to any ban on animal health grounds and with respect to animals not accompanied by a health certificate or a commercial document provided for in Articles 5 to 11, only animals accompanied by self-certification by the operator stating that the animals in question do not at the time of dispatch show any obvious signs of disease and that his holding is not subject to any animal-health restrictions, — comply with the requirements ensuring the welfare of the animals held.
Article 5 
1. Member States shall ensure that trade in apes (simiae and prosimiae) is restricted solely to animals consigned from and to a body, institute or centre approved by the competent authorities of the Member States in accordance with Article 13 and that such animals are accompanied by a veterinary certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex E, the declaration in which must be completed by the official veterinarian of the body, institute or centre of origin to guarantee the animals' health. 2. The competent authority of a Member State may, by way of derogation from paragraph 1, authorize the acquisition by an approved body, institute or centre of apes belonging to an individual.
Article 6 
A. Without prejudice to Article 14 and 15, Member States shall ensure that ungulates of species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC and 91/68/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: 1. in general they: (a) must be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC; (b) must not be intended for slaughter under a programme for the eradication of an infectious disease; (c) must not have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and must satisfy the relevant requirements of Directive 85/511/EEC and Article 4a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) must come from a holding referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) and (c) of Directive 64/432EEC which is not the subject of animal health measures, particularly those taken under Directives 85/511/EEC, 80/217/EEC ( 15 ) and 91/68/EEC and have been kept therein permanently since birth or for the last thirty days before dispatch; (e) must be accompanied by a certificate corresponding to the specimen given in Annex E part 1, bearing the following declaration: 2. in the case of ruminants: (a) they must come from an officially tuberculosis-free and officially brucellosis-free herd in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC or Directive 91/68/EEC and satisfy, as regards animal health rules, the relevant requirements laid down for the bovine species in Article 3 (2) (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Directive 64/432/EEC or Article 3 of Directive 91/68/EEC; (b) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions laid down in (a), they must come from a holding in which no case of brucellosis or tuberculosis has been recorded in the 42 days preceding loading of the animals and in which the ruminants have in the 30 days prior to dispatch undergone with negative results a test for brucellosis and tuberculosis; (c) in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, provisions may be adopted regarding leukosis; 3. in the case of suidae: (a) they must not have come from an area which is the subject of prohibition measures associated with the presence of African swine fever in accordance with Article 9a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (b) they must come from a holding which is not subject to any of the restrictions laid down in Directive 80/217/EEC as a result of classical swine fever; (c) they must come from a brucellosis-free holding in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC and satisfy the relevant animal health requirements laid down for swine in Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions set out in (c), they must, in the 30 days prior to their dispatch, have undergone with negative results a test designed to show the absence of antibodies to brucellosis; 4. the testing requirements referred to in this Article and their criteria may be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26. These decisions shall take into consideration the case of ruminants reared in the arctic regions of the Community. Pending the decisions provided for in the preceding subparagraph, national rules shall continue to apply. A. Without prejudice to Article 14 and 15, Member States shall ensure that ungulates of species other than those referred to in Directives 64/432/EEC, 90/426/EEC and 91/68/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: 1. in general they: (a) must be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC; (b) must not be intended for slaughter under a programme for the eradication of an infectious disease; (c) must not have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and must satisfy the relevant requirements of Directive 85/511/EEC and Article 4a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) must come from a holding referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) and (c) of Directive 64/432EEC which is not the subject of animal health measures, particularly those taken under Directives 85/511/EEC, 80/217/EEC ( 15 ) and 91/68/EEC and have been kept therein permanently since birth or for the last thirty days before dispatch; (e) must be accompanied by a certificate corresponding to the specimen given in Annex E part 1, bearing the following declaration: 1. in general they: (a) must be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC; (b) must not be intended for slaughter under a programme for the eradication of an infectious disease; (c) must not have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and must satisfy the relevant requirements of Directive 85/511/EEC and Article 4a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) must come from a holding referred to in Article 3 (2) (b) and (c) of Directive 64/432EEC which is not the subject of animal health measures, particularly those taken under Directives 85/511/EEC, 80/217/EEC ( 15 ) and 91/68/EEC and have been kept therein permanently since birth or for the last thirty days before dispatch; (e) must be accompanied by a certificate corresponding to the specimen given in Annex E part 1, bearing the following declaration: 2. in the case of ruminants: (a) they must come from an officially tuberculosis-free and officially brucellosis-free herd in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC or Directive 91/68/EEC and satisfy, as regards animal health rules, the relevant requirements laid down for the bovine species in Article 3 (2) (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Directive 64/432/EEC or Article 3 of Directive 91/68/EEC; (b) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions laid down in (a), they must come from a holding in which no case of brucellosis or tuberculosis has been recorded in the 42 days preceding loading of the animals and in which the ruminants have in the 30 days prior to dispatch undergone with negative results a test for brucellosis and tuberculosis; (c) in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, provisions may be adopted regarding leukosis; 2. in the case of ruminants: (a) they must come from an officially tuberculosis-free and officially brucellosis-free herd in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC or Directive 91/68/EEC and satisfy, as regards animal health rules, the relevant requirements laid down for the bovine species in Article 3 (2) (c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Directive 64/432/EEC or Article 3 of Directive 91/68/EEC; (b) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions laid down in (a), they must come from a holding in which no case of brucellosis or tuberculosis has been recorded in the 42 days preceding loading of the animals and in which the ruminants have in the 30 days prior to dispatch undergone with negative results a test for brucellosis and tuberculosis; (c) in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, provisions may be adopted regarding leukosis; 3. in the case of suidae: (a) they must not have come from an area which is the subject of prohibition measures associated with the presence of African swine fever in accordance with Article 9a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (b) they must come from a holding which is not subject to any of the restrictions laid down in Directive 80/217/EEC as a result of classical swine fever; (c) they must come from a brucellosis-free holding in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC and satisfy the relevant animal health requirements laid down for swine in Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions set out in (c), they must, in the 30 days prior to their dispatch, have undergone with negative results a test designed to show the absence of antibodies to brucellosis; 3. in the case of suidae: (a) they must not have come from an area which is the subject of prohibition measures associated with the presence of African swine fever in accordance with Article 9a of Directive 64/432/EEC; (b) they must come from a holding which is not subject to any of the restrictions laid down in Directive 80/217/EEC as a result of classical swine fever; (c) they must come from a brucellosis-free holding in accordance with Directive 64/432/EEC and satisfy the relevant animal health requirements laid down for swine in Directive 64/432/EEC; (d) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions set out in (c), they must, in the 30 days prior to their dispatch, have undergone with negative results a test designed to show the absence of antibodies to brucellosis; 4. the testing requirements referred to in this Article and their criteria may be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26. These decisions shall take into consideration the case of ruminants reared in the arctic regions of the Community. Pending the decisions provided for in the preceding subparagraph, national rules shall continue to apply. 4. the testing requirements referred to in this Article and their criteria may be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26. These decisions shall take into consideration the case of ruminants reared in the arctic regions of the Community. Pending the decisions provided for in the preceding subparagraph, national rules shall continue to apply. B. Directive 64/432/EEC is amended as follows: 1. in Article 2 (b) and (c), for ‘bovine animal(s)’ read ‘animal(s) of the bovine species (including Bubalus bubalus )’; 2. the following Article is inserted: ‘Article 10a Under the procedure laid down in Article 12, the health certificates, a specimen of which is reproduced in Annex F, may be amended or supplemented, in particular in order to take account of the requirements of Article 6 of Directive 92/65/EEC.’ B. Directive 64/432/EEC is amended as follows: 1. in Article 2 (b) and (c), for ‘bovine animal(s)’ read ‘animal(s) of the bovine species (including Bubalus bubalus )’; 2. the following Article is inserted: 
‘Article 10a
Under the procedure laid down in Article 12, the health certificates, a specimen of which is reproduced in Annex F, may be amended or supplemented, in particular in order to take account of the requirements of Article 6 of Directive 92/65/EEC.’
Article 7 
A. Member States shall ensure that birds other than those referred to in Directive 90/539/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: 1. in general they must: (a) come from a holding in which avian influenza has not been diagnosed in the 30 days preceeding the dispatch; (b) come from a holding or an area not subject to restrictions under measures to be applied to combat Newcastle disease. Pending the implementation of the Community measures referred to in Article 19 of Directive 90/539/EEC, national requirements for combating Newcastle disease shall continue to apply, in compliance with the general provisions of the Treaty; (c) have, in accordance with the third indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 91/496/EEC, been quarantined, if they have been imported from a third country, in the holding to which they were taken after they entered the territory of the Community; 2. in addition, psittacidae must: (a) not come from a holding nor have been in contact with animals from a holding on which psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci) has been diagnosed. The period of prohibition since the last recorded case and the period of treatment under veterinary supervision recognized under the procedure provided for in Article 26 must be at least two months; (b) be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC. The methods for identifying psittacidae, and in particular sick psittacidae, shall be established under the procedure provided for in Article 26; (c) be accompanied by a commercial document signed by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding or business of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority. A. Member States shall ensure that birds other than those referred to in Directive 90/539/EEC may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: 1. in general they must: (a) come from a holding in which avian influenza has not been diagnosed in the 30 days preceeding the dispatch; (b) come from a holding or an area not subject to restrictions under measures to be applied to combat Newcastle disease. Pending the implementation of the Community measures referred to in Article 19 of Directive 90/539/EEC, national requirements for combating Newcastle disease shall continue to apply, in compliance with the general provisions of the Treaty; (c) have, in accordance with the third indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 91/496/EEC, been quarantined, if they have been imported from a third country, in the holding to which they were taken after they entered the territory of the Community; 1. in general they must: (a) come from a holding in which avian influenza has not been diagnosed in the 30 days preceeding the dispatch; (b) come from a holding or an area not subject to restrictions under measures to be applied to combat Newcastle disease. Pending the implementation of the Community measures referred to in Article 19 of Directive 90/539/EEC, national requirements for combating Newcastle disease shall continue to apply, in compliance with the general provisions of the Treaty; (b) come from a holding or an area not subject to restrictions under measures to be applied to combat Newcastle disease. Pending the implementation of the Community measures referred to in Article 19 of Directive 90/539/EEC, national requirements for combating Newcastle disease shall continue to apply, in compliance with the general provisions of the Treaty; (c) have, in accordance with the third indent of Article 10 (1) of Directive 91/496/EEC, been quarantined, if they have been imported from a third country, in the holding to which they were taken after they entered the territory of the Community; 2. in addition, psittacidae must: (a) not come from a holding nor have been in contact with animals from a holding on which psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci) has been diagnosed. The period of prohibition since the last recorded case and the period of treatment under veterinary supervision recognized under the procedure provided for in Article 26 must be at least two months; (b) be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC. The methods for identifying psittacidae, and in particular sick psittacidae, shall be established under the procedure provided for in Article 26; (c) be accompanied by a commercial document signed by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding or business of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority. 2. in addition, psittacidae must: (a) not come from a holding nor have been in contact with animals from a holding on which psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci) has been diagnosed. The period of prohibition since the last recorded case and the period of treatment under veterinary supervision recognized under the procedure provided for in Article 26 must be at least two months; (a) not come from a holding nor have been in contact with animals from a holding on which psittacosis (Chlamydia psittaci) has been diagnosed. The period of prohibition since the last recorded case and the period of treatment under veterinary supervision recognized under the procedure provided for in Article 26 must be at least two months; (b) be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC. The methods for identifying psittacidae, and in particular sick psittacidae, shall be established under the procedure provided for in Article 26; (b) be identified in accordance with Article 3 (1) (c) of Directive 90/425/EEC. The methods for identifying psittacidae, and in particular sick psittacidae, shall be established under the procedure provided for in Article 26; (c) be accompanied by a commercial document signed by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding or business of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority. B. In the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 91/495/EEC of 27 November 1990 concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat ( 16 ), the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae) ’ shall be inserted in the third line after the words ‘Directive 90/539/EEC’. In point 1 of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from, third countries of poultry and hatching eggs ( 17 ), the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae) ’ shall be inserted after the words ‘and partridges.’ B. In the second subparagraph of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 91/495/EEC of 27 November 1990 concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat ( 16 ), the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae) ’ shall be inserted in the third line after the words ‘Directive 90/539/EEC’. In point 1 of Article 2 (2) of Council Directive 90/539/EEC of 15 October 1990 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from, third countries of poultry and hatching eggs ( 17 ), the words ‘and ratites (Ratitae) ’ shall be inserted after the words ‘and partridges.’
Article 8 
Member States shall ensure that bees (Apis melifera) may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: (a) come from an area which is not the subject of a prohibition order associated with an occurrence of American foulbrood. The period of prohibition must continue for at least 30 days following the last recorded case and the date on which all hives within a radius of three kilometres have been checked by the competent authority and all infected hives burned or treated and inspected to the satisfaction of the said competent authority. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, and after consulting the Scientific Veterinary Committee, the requirements applied to bees (Apis melifera) or equivalent requirements may be applied to bumble bees; (a) come from an area which is not the subject of a prohibition order associated with an occurrence of American foulbrood. The period of prohibition must continue for at least 30 days following the last recorded case and the date on which all hives within a radius of three kilometres have been checked by the competent authority and all infected hives burned or treated and inspected to the satisfaction of the said competent authority. In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, and after consulting the Scientific Veterinary Committee, the requirements applied to bees (Apis melifera) or equivalent requirements may be applied to bumble bees; (b) are accompanied by a health certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex E the declaration in which is completed by the competent authority to certify that the requirements laid down in (a) are met.
Article 9 
1. Member States shall ensure that lagomorphs may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements: (a) they must not come from or have been in contact with animals from a holding on which rabies is present or is suspected of having been present within the last month; (b) they must come from a holding in which no animal shows clinical signs of myxomatosis. 2. Member States which require a health certificate for movements of lagomorphs in their territory may require animals being sent to them to be accompanied by a health certificate corresponding to the specimen in Annex E, supplemented by the following declaration: ‘I, the undersigned, …, certify that the above consignment satisfies the requirements of Article 9 of Directive 92/65/EEC and that the animals showed no clinical sign of disease on examination.’ This certificate must be issued by the official veterinarian or by the veterinarian responsible for the holding of origin and empowered for this purpose by the competent authority and for industrial breeding, by the official veterinarian. Member States wishing to use this option shall inform the Commission which must ensure that the requirement laid down in the first paragraph has been satisfied. 3. Ireland and the United Kingdom may require the submission of a health certificate guaranteeing that the requirement laid down in paragraph 1 (a) has been satisfied.
Article 10 
1. Member States shall ensure that there is a prohibition on trade in mink and foxes which come from or have been in contact with animals from a holding on which rabies is present or is suspected of having been present within the previous six months, inasmuch as no systematic vaccination programme is applied. 2. To be the subject of trade, dogs, cats and ferrets must satisfy the requirements set out in Articles 5 and 16 of Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals and amending Council Directive 92/65/EEC ( 18 ). The certificate accompanying the animals must also confirm that, 24 hours before dispatch of the animals, a clinical examination was carried out by a veterinarian authorised by the competent authority showing the animals to be in good health and able to withstand carriage to their destination. 3. By way of derogation from paragraph 2, when trade is to Ireland, the United Kingdom or Sweden, dogs, cats and ferrets shall be subject to the conditions set out in Articles 6 and 16 of Regulation (EC) No 998/2003. 4. Ireland, Cyprus, Malta, and the United Kingdom may, without prejudice to paragraphs 2 and 3, retain their national regulations on quarantine for all carnivores with the exception of the species referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 , primates, bats and other animals susceptible to rabies covered by this Directive which cannot be shown to have been born on the holding of origin and kept in captivity since birth, although the retention of those regulations may not jeopardize the abolition of veterinary checks at the frontiers between Member States. 5. Decision 90/638/EEC is amended as follows: 1. the following indent is added to Article 1: — ‘for programmes to control rabies: the criteria set out in Annex III.’ 2. the following Annex is added: ‘ANNEX III Criteria for programmes to control rabies Programmes to control rabies shall contain at least: (a) the criteria referred to in points 1 to 7 of Annex 1; (b) detailed information regarding the region or regions in which the oral immunization of foxes is to take place and its natural limits. This region or these regions must cover at least 6 000 km 2 or the total national area of a Member State and may include adjacent areas of a third country; (c) detailed information regarding the vaccines to be used, the distribution system, the density and frequency of bait-laying; (d) where appropriate, all details and the cost and purpose of schemes to conserve or preserve flora and fauna undertaken by voluntary organizations on the territory covered by these projects.’ 2. the following Annex is added: