Key Benefits:
Minister of Agriculture, Food, Fisheries, Rural and Land Management,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 on the joint organization of markets in the agricultural sector and specific provisions with regard to certain products of that sector;
In light of Commission Regulation (EC) No 617/2008 of 27 June 2008 on the terms and conditions for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 with respect to the marketing standards for couver eggs and poultry chicks;
Having regard to Council Directive 82/894/EEC of 21 December 1982 amended on notification of animal diseases in the Community;
In light of Council Directive 2006/605/EC of 6 September 2006 on certain protection measures relating to intra-community poultry exchanges for the provision of wild game of repeuplement;
In light of Council Directive 2009/158/EC of 30 November 2009 on health police conditions governing intra-community exchanges and imports from third countries of poultry and eggs to be found;
In view of Commission decision 91/552/EEC of 27 September 1991 establishing Denmark ' s status with respect to Newcastle disease;
In view of Commission decision 93/152/EEC of 8 February 1993 establishing the criteria for vaccination against avian pseudopes (Newcastle disease) to be applied in routine vaccination programmes;
In view of Commission decision 94/963/EC of 28 December 1994 establishing Finland ' s status as a country not immunizing against Newcastle disease;
In view of Commission decision 95/98/EC of 13 March 1995 establishing Sweden as a country not immunizing against Newcastle disease;
Having regard to Council Decision 95/410/EEC of 22 June 1995 setting the rules for microbiological sampling at the original establishment for slaughter poultry for Finland and Sweden;
Given the rural and maritime fishing code, including articles L. 236-1 to L. 236-3 and L. 236-5 to L. 236-8;
In view of the decision of 8 June 1994 setting out measures to combat the disease in Newcastle;
Considering the decision of 18 January 2008 establishing technical and administrative measures relating to the fight against avian influenza;
In view of the decision of 29 March 2011 establishing technical and administrative measures relating to the fight against sweater,
Stop it!
1. This Order sets out the health police conditions governing the exchange of poultry and eggs in the European Union.
2. This Order does not apply to poultry for exhibitions, competitions or competitions.
For the purposes of this Order, the following means:
1. Poultry: chickens, turkeys, pintades, ducks, geese, cailles, pigeons, pheasants and losers as well as runner birds (ratites), elevated or detained in captivity for their reproduction, the production of meat or consumption eggs or the supply of pick-up game.
2. Cover eggs: eggs produced by poultry defined in point 1 and intended to be incubated.
3. One-day chicks: all poultry less than seventy-two hours and not yet fed; However, Barbarie ducks (Cairina moschata) or their crossings may be fed.
4. Reproductive poultry: poultry aged seventy-two hours or more for the production of eggs to be found.
5. Annuity poultry: the poultry of seventy-two or more hours and elevated for the production of meat and/or consumption eggs or for the provision of repopulation game.
6. Slaughter poultry: poultry carried directly to the slaughterhouse to be shot down as soon as possible, but no later than seventy-two hours after their arrival.
7. Troupeau: all poultry of the same health status held in the same local or in the same enclosure and constituting an epidemiological unit. In the batteries, this term includes all birds sharing the same air cubage.
8. Operation: a facility that may include an establishment, used for the livestock or possession of breeding or rent poultry.
9. Establishment: the installation or part of a facility located in the same site and related to the following areas of activity:
(a) Selection establishment: the establishment whose activity consists in the production of cereal eggs for the production of breeding poultry;
(b) Multiplying establishment: the establishment whose activity consists in the production of cereal eggs for the production of annuity poultry;
(c) Breeding establishment:
(i) The establishment of breeding poultry, that is, the establishment whose activity is to raise breeding poultry before the breeding stage; or
(ii) The establishment raises annuity poultry, that is, the establishment whose activity is to raise weighty poultry before the deck stage;
(d) Sew: the establishment whose activity consists of incubation, hatching of eggs and the provision of one-day chicks.
10. Official Veterinary: any veterinarian placed under the authority of the Departmental Director (Social Cohesion and) of the protection of populations or of the General Food Directorate of the Ministry responsible for agriculture.
11. Health veterinarian: veterinarian with a health mandate issued by the prefect (departmental direction [of social cohesion and] of the protection of populations) and mandated under the responsibility of the prefect to carry out the inspections of the establishments provided for in this Order.
12. Health visit: a visit by the departmental director (of social cohesion and) of the protection of the population or his representative or a health veterinarian and whose purpose is to examine the health status of all poultry of this institution.
13. Mandatory reporting diseases: within the meaning of this Order, diseases listed in annex III.
14. Quarantine: the facility where poultry is maintained in full isolation, without direct contact with other birds, in order to be subjected to prolonged observation and to undergo various control tests in respect of diseases listed in Appendix III to this Order.
15. Sanitary slaughter: the operation of destroying, surrounding itself with all necessary sanitary guarantees, including disinfection, all poultry and products with or suspected contamination.
16.1. Authorized laboratories: laboratories responsible for conducting the diagnostic tests prescribed by this order and whose list is fixed by instruction of the Minister responsible for agriculture.
16.2. The national reference laboratory: the laboratory designated by order of the Minister in charge of agriculture.
To be the subject of exchanges within the European Union:
(a) Covered eggs, one-day chicks, breeding and rent poultry must meet the conditions set out in sections 4, 12, 13 and 15.
In addition:
(i) The eggs must meet the conditions set out in Article 5;
(ii) One-day chicks must meet the conditions set out in Article 6;
(iii) Reproduction and annuity poultry shall meet the conditions set out in Article 7;
(b) Slaughter poultry must meet the requirements set out in Articles 8, 12, 13 and 15;
(c) The poultry, including one-day chicks, for the provision of pick-up game must meet the conditions set out in Articles 4, 9, 12, 13 and 15;
(d) In terms of salmonella, poultry for Finland and Sweden must meet the conditions established under Article 10.
The eggs to be covered, the chicks of one day, the breeding and annuity poultry must come from:
(a) Establishments meeting the following requirements:
(i) They must be approved under a separate number by the Departmental Directorate (Social Cohesion and) of population protection, in accordance with the rules set out in Annex I;
(ii) They must be free, at the time of shipment, from any health police measures applicable to poultry;
(iii) They must be located outside a subject area, for health police reasons, to restriction measures taken as a result of the occurrence of a Newcastle disease home or avian influenza;
(b) A herd does not present, at the time of the expedition, any clinical sign or suspicion of an illness referred to in Annex III.
1. At the time of shipment, the eggs to be found must:
(a) Provening herds:
(i) Who have spent more than six weeks in one or more institutions referred to in Article 4, item (a) (i);
(ii) Who, if vaccinated, have been vaccinated in accordance with the vaccination conditions set out in Appendix II;
(iii) Who:
(or were subjected to a poultry health examination conducted by an official veterinarian or a health veterinarian during the seventy-two hours preceding the shipment and, at the time of this examination, did not present any clinical signs or suspicions of disease referred to in Annex III;
―it has undergone a monthly health visit of the original poultry breeding, carried out by an official veterinarian or a health veterinarian (or any other equivalent validated by the departmental director [of social cohesion and] of the protection of the population), on the understanding that the most recent inspection must have been carried out as soon as thirty-one days before the shipment. If this option is retained, the official veterinarian or health veterinarian must also have reviewed the herd's health status records and appreciated its current health status, on the basis of updated information provided by the person responsible for the herd during the seventy-two hours preceding the shipment. In the event that records or other information suspect a disease, the herds must have undergone a health examination of the poultry carried out by the official veterinarian or health veterinarian excluding any possibility of an illness referred to in Annex III;
(b) To be identified according to Regulation (EC) No 617/2008;
(c) Having been subjected to disinfection in accordance with a procedure proposed by the operator and validated by the departmental director (of social cohesion and) of the protection of populations.
2. If diseases listed in Annex III, which are likely to be transmitted by the eggs, spread in the herd that provided the eggs to be found during the period of their incubation, the seam must inform the departmental direction (of social cohesion and) of the protection of the populations responsible for the monitoring of the seam and the herd of origin. And the latter must inform the departmental branches (of social cohesion and) of the protection of the populations of the herds of origin and the veterinarians in charge of its herds.
One day chicks must:
(a) Be derived from eggs to be found meeting the requirements of Articles 4 and 5;
(b) meet the vaccination conditions set out in Appendix II if they have been vaccinated;
(c) Do not present, at the time of their expedition, any symptoms leading to a suspected illness listed in annex III.
At the time of shipment, reproduction and rent poultry shall:
(a) Have stayed since their outbreak or for more than six weeks in one or more institutions referred to in Article 4, point a (i) ;
(b) meet the vaccination conditions set out in Schedule II when they have been vaccinated;
(c) Have been subjected to a health examination conducted by an official veterinarian or a health veterinarian during the forty-eight hours preceding the shipment and, at the time of this examination, do not present any clinical signs or suspicions of disease referred to in Annex III.
At the time of shipment, slaughter poultry must come from an operation:
(a) In which they have stayed since their outbreak or for more than twenty and one days;
(b) which is free from any health police measures applicable to poultry;
(c) In which, in the course of the five-day health examination conducted by an official veterinarian or a health veterinarian on the herd of which poultry for slaughter, the poultry inspected did not show any clinical signs or suspicion of disease referred to in Annex III;
(d) Located outside of a subject area, for reasons of health police, restricted measures taken as a result of the occurrence of a Newcastle disease home or avian influenza.
1. At the time of shipment, poultry over seventy-two hours for the provision of wild game of repeuplement must come from an operation:
(a) In which they have stayed in the European Union since their outbreak or for more than twenty-one days and in which, during the two weeks preceding the expedition, they have not been contacted with newly introduced poultry;
(b) In which the official veterinarian has monitored compliance with biosecurity measures with respect to avian influenza, which are defined by instruction of the minister responsible for agriculture;
(c) which is free from any health police measures applicable to poultry;
(d) In which, during the health examination conducted, during the forty-eight hours preceding the shipment by an official veterinarian or a health veterinarian, on the flock of poultry, the poultry inspected did not show any clinical signs or suspicion of disease referred to in Annex III;
(e) Located outside an area subject to the prohibition, for reasons of health police, of restrictions taken as a result of the occurrence of a Newcastle disease home or avian influenza.
2. Within two months prior to the date of departure, samples must be taken for serological analysis for the research of subtypes H5 and H7 of the Type A avian influenza virus, with negative results according to the terms defined by the Minister for Agriculture.
3. In the event that poultry is less than a month old when it is shipped, it must be subjected to virological research against the avian influenza virus. These analyses must be performed during the one-week period prior to shipment. In this case, the provisions in items (a) and (f) of this article should also be respected. The analytical protocol for the aforementioned virological research is specified by instruction of the minister responsible for agriculture.
1. For salmonella and for serotypes not listed in Schedule I, Chapter III (A), slaughter poultry shipments to Finland and Sweden are subject to a microbiological sampling test at the original establishment, in accordance with Council Decision 95/410/EC of 22 June 1995 setting the rules for microbiological slaughter testing at the establishment
2. The scope of the test referred to in paragraph 1 and the methods to be used must be determined in the light of the opinion of the European Food Safety Authority and the operational programme that Finland and Sweden must submit to the Commission.
3. The test referred to in paragraph 1 is not performed for slaughter poultry from an operation subject to a program recognized by the Commission as equivalent to that referred to in paragraph 2.
1. The requirements of sections 3 to 8 and 13 do not apply to exchanges within the European Union of Poultry and Covered Eggs in small batches of less than twenty units as long as they comply with the provisions referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article.
2. The poultry and eggs to be found in paragraph 1 shall, at the time of shipment, come from herds:
(a) Who have stayed in the European Union since their outbreak or for at least three months;
(b) Who are free of clinical signs of quoted in Schedule III deemed contagious poultry at the time of their shipment;
(c) who respond, when vaccinated, to the vaccination conditions set out in Appendix II;
(d) Who are exempt from any health police measures applicable to poultry;
(e) Who are located outside a subject area, for reasons of health police, to restriction measures taken as a result of the occurrence of a Newcastle disease home or avian influenza.
All poultry of an expedition must, in the month preceding their shipment, have reacted negatively to serological examinations of Salmonella gallinarum antibodies (biovars Pullorum and Gallinarum), in accordance with the provisions of Annex I Chapter III. In the case of one-day eggs or chicks, the herd of origin must, "in the three months preceding the expedition undergo a serological examination of Salmonella gallinarum's research (biovars Pullorum and Gallinarum) in a proportion giving 95% certainty to detect the infection for a prevalence of 5%.
3. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 do not apply to batches containing ratites or eggs with ratites.
In the case of poultry and egg shipments to be found from areas where poultry vaccinations against Newcastle disease have occurred to a Member State or a Member State Region (Finland and Sweden) whose status has been recognized as not immunizing against Newcastle disease, the following provisions apply:
(a) The eggs must come from herds that:
(i) Not vaccinated; or
(ii) Are vaccinated using an inactivated vaccine; or
(iii) Are vaccinated using a live vaccine, provided that this vaccination took place at least 30 days before the collection of eggs to be found;
(b) One-day chicks (including chicks for retrieving game) should not have been vaccinated against Newcastle disease and must come from:
(i) Eggs to be found to meet the conditions set out in point a; and
(ii) From a couvoir where the working methods ensure that these eggs are incubated completely separated in time and space from that of eggs that do not meet the conditions set out in point a;
(c) Reproduction or annuity poultry shall:
(i) Not to be vaccinated against Newcastle disease; and
(ii) Have been isolated for fourteen days before the expedition either in an operation or in a quarantine station under the supervision of the departmental director (social cohesion and) of the protection of populations, its representative or a health veterinarian. In this regard, no poultry found in the original operation or, if any, in the quarantine station may have been vaccinated against the Newcastle disease for the twenty-one days prior to the shipment and no bird other than those included in the shipment may have been introduced into the quarantine operation or station during that same period; In addition, no vaccination can be performed at quarantine stations; and
(iii) Have, within fourteen days prior to the shipment, been the subject of a representative serologic control having given a negative result, carried out for the detection of antibodies of Newcastle disease in the manner described by the Minister for Agriculture;
(d) Slaughter poultry must come from herds that:
(i) If they are not vaccinated against Newcastle disease, meet the requirements set out in point c (i);
(ii) If they are vaccinated, they have been subjected, on the basis of a representative sample, within fourteen days before the shipment, to a test conducted for the isolation of the Newcastle disease virus in accordance with the terms described by instruction of the Minister for Agriculture.
Special case of Denmark:
The Member State of origin must file an application for prior authorization with the competent veterinary authority of Denmark prior to the shipment of poultry. The application includes information on the type of vaccine and the vaccination program used for the immunization of poultry against Newcastle disease.
The competent authority of Denmark may require testing in poultry in accordance with sections 1 and 2 of Decision 92/340/EEC, taking into account the information provided in accordance with Article 2 of this decision.
1. One day chicks and eggs to be covered must be transported:
(a) Either in new containers for single use designed for this purpose and used only once and then destroyed;
(b) Either in reuse containers, provided they are cleaned and disinfected before any reuse.
2. In any event, the containers referred to in paragraph 1 shall:
(a) contain only one-day chicks or lid eggs of the same species, category and type of poultry from the same establishment;
(b) Label:
(i) The name of the Member State and the region of origin;
(ii) The registration number for the establishment of origin referred to in Appendix I, Chapter I, item 2;
(iii) Number of chicks or eggs in each packaging;
(iv) The poultry species to which eggs or chicks belong.
3. Packages containing one-day chicks or coated eggs may be grouped for transport in containers provided for this purpose. The number of packagings grouped and the indications referred to in paragraph 2 (b) shall be deferred to these containers.
4. Reproduction or annuity poultry shall be carried in boxes or cages:
(a) Contains only poultry of the same species, class and type and originating from the same establishment;
(b) With the licence number for the establishment of origin referred to in Schedule I, Chapter I, Item 2.
5. Reproduction and annuity poultry and one-day chicks must be routed as soon as possible to the receiving establishment without contacting other living birds, with the exception of one-day breeding or annuity or chicks that meet the conditions set out in this Order.
Slaughter poultry must be routed as soon as possible to the consignee slaughterhouse without contacting other poultry, with the exception of slaughter poultry meeting the conditions set out in this Order.
The poultry intended for the provision of pick-up game must be routed as soon as possible to the point of destination without contacting other poultry, with the exception of poultry intended for the provision of pick-up game that meets the conditions set out in this Order.
6. Boxes, cages and means of transport shall be designed to:
(a) Avoid loss of excrement and minimize the loss of feathers during transport;
(b) Facilitate the observation of poultry;
(c) Allow cleaning and disinfection.
7. The means of transport and, if not for single use, the containers, boxes and cages must, before loading and after unloading, be cleaned and disinfected according to a procedure proposed by the operator and validated by the departmental direction (social cohesion and) of the protection of the populations.
The carriage of poultry referred to in Article 13, paragraph 5, is prohibited through an infected area of avian influenza or Newcastle disease, unless this transport is carried out by major road or rail routes.
The poultry and eggs to be exchanged within the European Union must, during their transport to the place of destination, be accompanied by a health certificate:
(a) Compliance with the appropriate model;
(b) Signed by an official veterinarian;
(c) Established, on boarding day, in French and in the official languages of the Member State of destination;
(d) Valid for a period of five days;
(e) Including a single leaflet;
(f) Planned in principle for a single recipient;
(g) Wearing a stamp and a signature of a different color than that of the certificate.
Offenders to the requirements of this Order shall be liable to penalties provided for in Article L. 237-3 of the Rural and Maritime Fisheries Code.
This Order repeals and supersedes the decree of 16 January 1995 on the health police conditions governing exchanges within the European Union of poultry and eggs to be found.
The present order will be issued in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
A N N E X E S
A N N E X E I
ESTABLISHMENT OF STATES
Chapter I
General rules
1. To be approved for exchanges within the European Union, institutions must:
(a) Meet the installation and operation conditions defined in Chapter II;
(b) Implement and comply with the conditions of a disease health control program, approved by the Minister for Agriculture and taking into account the requirements of Chapter III;
(c) Provide all facilities for the implementation of the activities under item (d);
(d) To be subject, as part of an organized health control, to the supervision of the departmental director (of social cohesion and) of the protection of populations or his representative. This health control includes:
- at least one annual health visit, carried out by the departmental director (of social cohesion and) of the protection of the population or his representative and supplemented by a monitoring of the application of the hygiene measures and the operation of the facility, in accordance with the conditions of Chapter II;
the registration by the operator of all information necessary for the permanent monitoring of the health condition;
- only contain poultry.
2. The Prefect (Departmental Direction [of Social Cohesion and] of Population Protection) assigns to each institution that meets the conditions set out in point 1 a separate number of accreditation defined according to the instruction of the Minister for Agriculture.
Chapter II
Installation and operation
A. ― Selection, multiplication and breeding establishments
1. Facilities
(a) The situation and disposition of the facilities will need to be appropriate to the type of production undertaken and to avoid the introduction of disease or to ensure its control in the event of the occurrence. If establishments host several poultry species, these species will be clearly separated;
(b) Facilities must ensure good hygiene conditions and allow the exercise of health control;
(c) The equipment shall be suitable for the type of production undertaken and allow the cleaning and disinfection of poultry and eggs facilities and means of transport at the most appropriate place.
2. The conduct of livestock
(a) The breeding technique will be based as much as possible on the principles of "protected livestock" and "all empty." Cleaning, disinfection and sanitary vacuum will be practised between each lot;
(b) Selection or multiplication and breeding establishments shall only host poultry from:
the establishment itself; and/or
- other breeding, breeding or breeding establishments of the European Union also approved in accordance with Article 4, point a (i); and/or
– imports from third countries made in accordance with the specific regulations in force.
(c) The hygiene rules will be stopped by the management of the establishment. Staff should wear work clothes and visitors to protective clothing;
(d) Buildings, enclosures and equipment will be maintained in good maintenance;
(e) The eggs will be:
(i) Collected at regular intervals, at least once a day and as soon as possible after the bridge;
(ii) Cleaned and disinfected as soon as possible, unless disinfection is carried out in a couvoir in France;
(iii) Placed in new or clean packaging material and disinfected.
(f) The operator will report to the health veterinarian any variation in performance performance or any other symptom that may constitute a suspicion of known infectious poultry disease. As soon as there is suspicion, the health veterinarian sends to a certified laboratory the necessary samples for the establishment or confirmation of the diagnosis and informs the prefect (departmental direction [of social cohesion and] of the protection of the population), which takes appropriate health police measures;
(g) A file farm notebook or computer support will be kept by herd and kept for at least two years after the elimination of herds. It will indicate:
– poultry entrances and exits;
- production performance;
- morbidity and mortality and their causes;
- laboratory tests performed and results obtained;
the origin of poultry;
- the destination of the eggs;
(h) In the event of confirmation of disease referred to in annex III, the results of the laboratory examinations should be immediately communicated to the prefect (departmental direction [of social cohesion and] of population protection).
B. ∙ Cocks
1. Facilities
(a) A physical and functional separation must exist between the seam and the breeding facilities. The provision will allow for the separation of the various functional areas:
― storage and classification of eggs;
disinfection;
- pre-incubation;
― elosion;
- preparation and packaging of shipments;
(b) The buildings must be protected against birds coming from the outside and rodents. Soils and walls must be made of resistant, waterproof and washable material. Natural or artificial lighting conditions and air and temperature control systems must be adapted. The hygienic disposal of waste (eggs and chicks) should be planned;
(c) The material shall have smooth and waterproof walls;
2. Operation
(a) The operation will be based on the principle of the unique circulation of eggs, equipment in service and personnel;
(b) The eggs to be covered must come from:
- establishments for the selection or multiplication of the European Union approved in accordance with Article 4, point a (i);
– imports from third countries made in accordance with the specific regulations in force;
(c) The hygiene rules will be stopped by the management of the establishment. Staff should wear work clothes and visitors to protective clothing;
(d) Buildings and equipment will be maintained in good maintenance;
(e) Disinfection operations will include:
- the eggs, between their arrival at the sewing and the sewing or at the time of their shipment to the Union for commercial purposes or their export to a third country, unless they have been previously disinfected in the original breeding establishment;
― incubators, regularly;
― hatches and equipment, after each outbreak;
(f) A microbiological quality control program will evaluate the health condition of the seam.
(g) The operator will report to the health veterinarian any variation in production performance or any other symptom that may constitute a suspicion of disease referred to in Annex III. As soon as there is suspicion of disease referred to in Annex III, the health veterinarian shall send to a certified laboratory the necessary samples for the establishment or confirmation of the diagnosis and inform the prefect (departmental direction [of social cohesion and] of the protection of populations), which shall take appropriate health police measures;
A sewing notebook, file or computer support, kept for at least two years, will indicate, if possible by herd:
– the origin of the eggs and their arrival date;
― hatching results;
- the defects found;
- laboratory tests performed and results obtained;
- potential vaccination programmes;
the number and destination of incubated non-eggles;
– the destination of one day chicks;
(h) In the event of confirmation of disease referred to in annex III, the results of the laboratory examinations should be immediately communicated to the prefect (departmental direction [of social cohesion and] of population protection).
Chapter III
Health Control Programme
Without prejudice to health measures, disease surveillance programs define, at a minimum, the modalities for surveillance of infections and species identified in sections A to D.
A. - Infections in Salmonella gallinarum (biovars Pullorum
and Gallinarum) and Salmonella arizonae
1. Species concerned
(a) For Salmonella gallinarum (biovars Pullorum and Gallinarum): chickens, turkeys, pintades, cailles, pheasants, losers and ducks;
(b) For Salmonella arizonae: turkeys.
2. Health Control Programme
(a) Serological and/or bacteriological examinations must be conducted to determine the presence of an infection, taking into account for species other than chickens of the potentially significant proportion of falsely positive reactions;
(b) The samples to be analysed are, as the case may be, blood, shellfish, second-choice chicks, meconium or post-mortem tissue, including liver, spleen, ovary/oviduct and ilecal junction;
(c) A selenite-cystin enrichment broth shall be used for feces or mesconium samples and intestinal samples. A non-selective pre-enrichment followed by selective bouillon enrichment Rappaport-Vassiliadis soja (RVS) or broth from Müller-Kauffmann to Tétrathionate-Novobiocine (MKTTn) can be used for samples (such as dead shell embryos) for which the competing flora can be assumed to be minimal;
(d) When collecting blood samples in a herd for the serological screening of Salmonella gallinarum or Salmonella arizonae, it must be taken into account the prevalence of infection in the territory and its earlier incidence in the facility to determine the number of samples to be collected. However, a statistically representative number of samples must always be taken for serological and/or bacteriological testing. It will be specified by instruction of the Minister responsible for agriculture in respect of establishments located in France;
(e) The herds must be controlled during each deck period, at the most suitable time for the detection of the disease concerned;
(f) Samples for bacteriological examinations shall not be taken from poultry or eggs that have been treated with antibacterial drugs within two to three weeks before the examination;
(g) Detection techniques must be able to differentiate serologic reactions to Salmonella gallinarum infection from those resulting, if any, from the use of Salmonella enteritidis vaccine. Such a vaccine should not be used in the event of serologic testing. Vaccination necessarily involves the use of bacteriological examination; However, the confirmation method must be able to discriminate the live vaccine strains of wild strains.
B. ― Infections at Mycoplasma gallisepticum
and Mycoplasma meleagridis
1. Species concerned
(a) For Mycoplasma gallisepticum: chickens and turkeys;
(b) For Mycoplasma meleagridis: turkeys.
2. Health Control Programme
(a) The presence of an infection is determined by means of serological and/or bacteriological and/or molecular examinations validated by the National Reference Laboratory. Aerosacculitis lesions on one-day chicks and turkeys are a sign of infection in Mycoplasma and must be examined;
(b) The samples taken for the detection of an infection in Mycoplasma come, as the case may be, from the blood, chicks and one-day turkeys, sperm, trachean swabs, choanes, nails or air bag and, in particular, for the screening of Mycoplasma meleagridis, the oviduct of the turkey or penis;
(c) Detection examinations for Mycoplasma gallisepticum or Mycoplasma meleagridis must be performed from a representative sample so that the infection can be continuously controlled during breeding and deck periods, just before the deck begins and then every three months. It will be specified by instruction of the Minister responsible for agriculture with regard to establishments located in France.
3. Results and actions to be taken
In the absence of responsive animals, the test results are considered negative. Otherwise, the herd is deemed to be a suspect and the measures provided for in Chapter IV must be applied to her.
4. separate production units
In the case of farms with several separate production units, the prefect (departmental director of social cohesion and population protection) may, for healthy production units of an infected operation, derogate from the measures established in paragraph 3, b of Chapter IV concerning the recovery of the accreditation, provided the authorized veterinarian has confirmed that the structure and size of these production units as well as the operations that are carried out therein
Chapter IV
Suspension or withdrawal criteria
of an establishment
1. The accreditation of an institution will be suspended:
(a) When the conditions set out in Chapter II are no longer met;
(b) Until the disease concerned has been properly investigated, therefore:
- that a Newcastle avian or disease home is suspected in the facility;
- that the facility has received poultry or certifying eggs from an establishment where a home of avian influenza or Newcastle disease is suspected or confirmed;
―that a contact likely to transmit the infection occurred between the establishment and the site of an avian influenza or Newcastle disease home.
(c) Until further examinations are carried out, if the results of the controls undertaken in accordance with the conditions set out in Chapters II and III concerning Salmonella Gallinarum, Salmonella arizonae, Mycoplasma gallisepticum or Mycoplasma meleagridis testify to a possible infection;
(d) Up to the completion of the appropriate measures required by the official veterinarian in the event of non-compliance with the requirements set out in Chapter I, items 1 (a, b and c).
2. The approval of an establishment shall be withdrawn:
(a) If a Newcastle avian or disease outbreak is confirmed in the facility;
(b) If an appropriate second examination confirms the presence of a Salmonella gallinarum infection, Salmonella arizonae, Mycoplasma gallisepticum or Mycoplasma meleagridis;
(c) If, after being enclosed once a second time by the official veterinarian, the person responsible for the establishment did not take the necessary measures to bring the establishment into conformity with the requirements of Chapter I, items 1 (a), (b) and (c).
3. The recovery of the licence is subject to the following conditions:
(a) When the accreditation has been removed due to a Newcastle avian influenza or disease home, it can be restored twenty-one days after cleaning and disinfection provided that a sanitary slaughter has been performed;
(b) When the approval was withdrawn due to a home:
― Salmonella gallinarum or Salmonella arizonae, it can be restored after the establishment has been subjected, after the sanitary slaughter of the infected herd and after a disinfection whose efficacy has been verified by appropriate tests on dry surfaces, with two inspections performed at least twenty-one day interval and having produced negative results;
– Mycoplasma gallisepticum or Mycoplasma meleagridis, it can be restored after the establishment has been subjected to two tests at sixty interval days or, after the sanitary slaughter of the entire infected herd and after disinfection, to two tests performed at least twenty-one interval days, if the tests carried out in both cases have produced negative results.
A N N E X E I
VACCINATION CONDITIONS
DE VOLAILLES
1. Vaccines used for the vaccination of poultry or herds originating from eggs to be found must be subject to market authorization issued by the National Health Safety Agency for Food, Environment and Labour.
2. The criteria for the use of vaccines in routine vaccination programs against Newcastle disease can be determined by the Commission.
Thus, with respect to live attenuated vaccines against avian pseudopeste or Newcastle disease, they must be prepared from a strain of the virus of that disease whose initial seed lot (Master Seed) was subjected to a test that revealed an index of intracereal pathogenicity (IPIC) of:
(i) Less than 0.4 if each bird received at least 10 7 EID 50 for the test;
(ii) Less than 0.5, if each bird received at least 10 8 EID 50 for the test.
3. With respect to vaccination against all Salmonella serotypes, the following conditions apply:
(a) Salmonella vaccination programmes should not interfere with serological screening in field surveys or cause false positive tests;
(b) Live Salmonella vaccines should not be used in national control programmes:
(i) In reproduction and rent poultry during the breeding or deck phase, unless their safety has been demonstrated and such use has been authorized in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and the Council;
(ii) When the manufacturer does not provide an appropriate method for bacteriologically discriminating wild salmonella strains from vaccine strains.
A N N E X E I I
DECLARATION MALADIES
Avian influenza.
Newcastle disease.
Pullorosis.
Done on 10 October 2011.
For the Minister and by delegation:
Director General
food,
P. Briand
