Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17 December 1992 introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease

• Published date: 15 March 1993
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale delle Comunità europee, L 62, 15 marzo 1993,Diario Oficial de las Comunidades Europeas, L 62, 15 de marzo de 1993,Journal officiel des Communautés européennes, L 62, 15 mars 1993

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►B COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/119/EEC of 17 December 1992 introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease (OJ L 062 15.3.1993, p. 69)

Amended by:

		Official Journal
		No	page	date
►M1	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2002/60/EC Text with EEA relevance of 27 June 2002	L 192	27	20.7.2002
►M2	COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 806/2003 of 14 April 2003	L 122	1	16.5.2003
M3	COMMISSION DECISION 2006/911/EC of 5 December 2006	L 346	41	9.12.2006
M4	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2006/104/EC of 20 November 2006	L 363	352	20.12.2006
►M5	COMMISSION DIRECTIVE 2007/10/EC Text with EEA relevance of 21 February 2007	L 63	24	1.3.2007
M6	COMMISSION DECISION 2007/729/EC of 7 November 2007	L 294	26	13.11.2007
►M7	COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 2008/73/EC Text with EEA relevance of 15 July 2008	L 219	40	14.8.2008
►M8	COUNCIL DECISION 2009/470/EC of 25 May 2009	L 155	30	18.6.2009
►M9	COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2018/136 Text with EEA relevance of 25 January 2018	L 24	3	27.1.2018

Amended by:

A1	ACT (94/C 241/08)	C 241	21	29.8.1994
		L 001	1	..
A2	ACT concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded	L 236	33	23.9.2003

Corrected by:

►C1 Corrigendum, OJ L 145, 10.6.2009, p. 49 (1992/119)

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COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 92/119/EEC

of 17 December 1992

introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease

Article 1

This Directive defines the general Community control measures to be applied in the event of an outbreak of one of the diseases listed in Annex I.

Article 2

For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:

1. holding: any establishment (agricultural or other), situated in the territory of a Member State, in which animals are kept or bred;

2. animal: any domestic animal of a species liable to be directly affected by the disease in question, or any wild vertebrate animal likely to participate in the epidemiology of the disease, by acting as a carrier or reservoir of infection;

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3. vector: any vertebrate or invertebrate animal which, by mechanical or biological means, is liable to transmit and spread the agent of the disease in question;

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4. owner or keeper: any person or persons, either natural or legal, having ownership of the animals, or charged with keeping the said animals, whether or not for financial reward;

5. incubation period: the period of time likely to elapse between exposure to the agent of the disease and the onset of clinical symptoms. The duration of this period shall be that indicated in Annex I for the disease in question;

6. confirmation of infection: the declaration by the competent authority of the presence of any of the diseases listed in Annex I based on laboratory results; however, in the event of an epidemic, the competent authority may also confirm the presence of the disease on the basis of clinical and/or epidemiological results;

7. competent authority: the central authority of a Member State responsible for carrying out veterinary checks or any veterinary authority to which it has delegated that responsibility;

8. official veterinarian: the veterinarian appointed by the competent authority.

Article 3

Member States shall ensure that it is compulsory for the suspected presence of any of the diseases referred to in Annex I to be notified immediately to the competent authority.

Article 4

1. When animals on a holding are suspected of being infected or contaminated with one of the diseases listed in Annex I, Member States shall ensure that the official veterinarian immediately activates official investigation arrangements to confirm or rule out the presence of the disease in question and, in particular, must take or have taken the samples necessary for laboratory examination. To that end the animals in question may be transported to the laboratories under the supervision of the competent authority, which shall take appropriate steps to prevent the disease from spreading.

2. As soon as the suspected presence of the disease is notified, the competent authority shall have the holding placed under official surveillance and shall in particular require that:

(a) a census be made of all categories of animals of susceptible species and that, in respect of each of these categories, the number of animals already dead, infected or liable to be infected or contaminated be recorded; the census must be kept up to date to take account of animals born or dying during the period of suspicion; the information in the census must be kept up to date and produced on request and may be checked at each visit;

(b) all animals of susceptible species on the holding be kept in their living quarters or confined in some other place where they can be isolated taking into account the possible role of vectors, where appropriate;

(c) no animals of susceptible species enter or leave the holding;

(d) all movement:

— of persons, animals of other species not susceptible to the disease and vehicles to or from the holding,

— of meat or animal carcases, or of animal feed, equipment, waste, droppings, litter, manure, or anything liable to transmit the disease in question

(e) be subject to authorization by the competent authority, which shall lay down the conditions for preventing any risk of the disease spreeding; appropriate means of disinfection be installed at the entrances and exits of buildings or places housing animals of susceptible species and of the holding itself;

(f) an epizootiological inquiry be carried out in accordance with Article 8.

3. Until such time as the official measures laid down in paragraph 2 are enforced, the owner or keeper of any animal in which disease is suspected shall take every appropriate measure to ensure compliance with paragraph 2, except for subparagraph (f) thereof.

4. The competent authority may apply any of the measures provided for in paragraph 2 to other holdings should their location, their configuration or contacts with the holding where the disease is suspected give reason to suspect possible contamination.

5. The measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not be withdrawn until the suspicion of the presence of the disease has been ruled out by the official veterinarian.

Article 5

1. Once it has been officially confirmed that one of the diseases listed in Annex I is present on a holding, Member States shall ensure that, in addition to the measures laid down in Article 4 (2), the competent authority requires application of the following measures:

(a) all animals of susceptible species on the holding shall be killed on the spot, without delay. The animals which have died or been killed shall either be burnt or buried on the spot, if possible, or destroyed in a carcase disposal plant. These operations shall be carried out in such a way as to minimize the risk of disseminating the agent of the disease;

(b) any substance or waste, such as animal feed, litter, manure or slurry, which is liable to be contaminated, shall be destroyed or treated appropriately. This treatment, carried out in accordance with the instructions of the official veterinarian, must ensure that any agent or vector of the agent of the disease is destroyed;

(c) after carrying out operations listed in subparagraphs (a) and (b), the buildings used for housing animals of susceptible species, their surroundings, the vehicles used for transport and all equipment liable to be contaminated shall be cleaned and disinfected in accordance with Article 16;

(d) an epizootiological inquiry shall be carried out in accordance with Article 8.

2. When recourse is had to burial, it must be deep enough to prevent carnivorous animals from digging up the carcases or waste referred to in paragraph 1 (a) and (b) above and must be in suitable ground so as to prevent contamination of water tables or any environmental nuisance.

3. The competent authority may extend the measures provided for in paragraph 1 to other neighbouring holdings should their location, their configuration or contacts with the holding where the presence of the disease has been confirmed give reason to suspect possible contamination.

4. The restocking of the holding shall be authorized by the competent authority, following the satisfactory inspection by the official veterinarian of the cleaning and disinfection operations carried out in accordance with Article 16.

Article 6

Where animals living in the wild are infected or suspected of being infected, Member States shall ensure that appropriate action is taken. Member States shall inform the Commission and the other Member States, in the Standing Veterinary Committee set up by Decision 68/361/EEC ( 1 ), of the measures they have taken.

Article 7

1. In the case of holdings which consist of two or more separate...