Cabinet of Ministers Regulations No. 85, Riga 2004 17 February (pr. Nr. 7, § 19) officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free agenda of prevention and combat issued in accordance with article 36 of the law on veterinary medicine-i. General questions 1. establish procedures for enzootic bovine leukosis carried out prevention and eradication of bovine species (animals) herds (animal or group of animals kept on the holding as one unit and to have the same health status. If the shed is more herds, each herd is treated as a separate entity).
2. the animal owner, holder, the food and veterinary service officer or a practicing veterinarian shall immediately notify the food and veterinary service territorial unit: 2.1 the presence of animals or animals which leads to the suspicion of being infected with enzootic bovine leukosis virus, but the disease was confirmed in the laboratory studies have not yet been approved;
2.2. If the animal's lymph nodes or other tissues of the body finds neoplasia.
3. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis therapeutic treatment and vaccination against enzootic bovine leucosis is prohibited.
4. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis prevention and eradication measures organised by the food and veterinary service. Animals, herds or holdings are registered in the laws on animal, herd and the recording of holdings and identification of the animals in the order and within the food and veterinary service.
II. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis prevention and control 5. If in the laboratory studies the herd finds enzootic bovine leukosis, the food and veterinary service subject to supervision and control of shed of the following requirements: 5.1. prohibition to move animals from the holding areas, except in the case of food and veterinary service of the official veterinarian (official veterinarian) permission to send them to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter;
5.2. Prohibition officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free herd animals to come into contact with other herd animals;
5.3. with enzootic bovine leukosis suffering destruction of animal milk or feeding the animals in the holding of milk after heat treatment that guarantees the destruction of the agent. Milk allowed in the thermal process and fed to the animals, if all of the herd for slaughter;
5.4. whole milk of animals sent to a milk processing plant for heat treated using techniques that guarantee the destruction of the agent;
5.5. the owner or keeper of the animals on the instant message authorized veterinarian of all the animals which have died or been slaughtered in forced eradication measures.
6. Enzootic bovine leucosis eradication measures, slaughtered meat byproducts and other kautprodukt are allowed to use: 6.1. production of animal feed, or for processing animal waste processing plant regulations for animal feed in accordance with the procedure laid down, provided that measures are taken to ensure the disease does not spread further, and have prevented contamination risk of animals;
6.2. production of food products, if the inspection is not found during changes in the tissue, which is prohibited in the further processing of meat. In order to ensure the destruction of the agents of infectious diseases, food products surfactants used only cooked meat.
7. food and veterinary service develop and approve the methodological instructions which must be observed by the food and veterinary service officials controlling the rules referred to in paragraph 6, the processing of products in animal feed production, animal tails, and meat processing and recycling plants.
8. food and veterinary service developed and approved a national monitoring programme for enzootic bovine leukosis (rules that define the food and veterinary service official set of actions to combat the disease, in order to ensure that the requirements of these regulations). National surveillance program can determine the following: eradication of all diseases in the affected 8.1 shed slaughter of the animals;
8.2. the slaughter of animals which are sick or causing suspicion with enzootic bovine leukosis.
9. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis surveillance program and the European Commission with the requested information to the food and veterinary service submitted for review and approval at the European Commission.
10. If enzootic bovine leukosis surveillance program States that the disease is slaughtered in the shed all animals slaughtered them food and veterinary service period.
11. If enzootic bovine leukosis surveillance program is established that is slaughtered sick animals or animals, which raises the suspicion with enzootic bovine leukosis, comply with the following requirements: 11.1 animals are slaughtered within 30 days after the diagnosis of animal owner notification;
11.2. the animals to the slaughterhouse allowed to move only with the permission of the official veterinarian;
11.3. take the rest of the shed for the animals until the serological testing in laboratory studies find that the disease has been eliminated;
11.4. the renewal of the livestock allowed to leave only the animals food and veterinary service is determined to be not infected.
12. After the slaughter of the herd and before the restoration of affected housing, vehicles, ramps and transitions that were used in the sick animal or carriage of animals, which raises the suspicion with enzootic bovine leukosis, as well as the materials, items and containers, which have been in contact with sick animals, cleaned, washed and disinfected by the food and veterinary service.
13. The food and veterinary service controls the whole herd animals to come into contact with animals from a herd which is not recognised as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free herd.
III. Enzootic Bovine Leukosis bovine herds of the monitoring arrangements 14. Herd is recognised as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free herd if: 14.1 in the past two years, the herd in any animal has been free of clinically with enzootic bovine leukosis and in this period the results of the laboratory examinations on this disease is negative;
14.2. all animals older than 24 months, two times the 12-month period at intervals not less than four months, is tested and the results are negative;
14.3. cow herds in the country or its administrative territory, which is recognised as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free State or its administrative area and complies with this provision in paragraph 14.1 above requirements.
15. save the cow herd officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status if: a it meets the 15.1 these rules 14.1. the requirements referred to in subparagraph;
15.2. the animals imported from enzootic bovine leukosis free herd;
15.3. all about 24 months, and the results of the laboratory examinations of the animals for enzootic bovine leukosis with negative for at least three years. Laboratory investigations on the disease agent presence carried out using an immune reaction of the agar gel diffusion, Antigen standardization method or imunofermentatīv method of analysis (ELISA test);
15.4. animals that are intended for the generation, the offspring come from an officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free countries or their administrative territories.
16. the herd to revoke the officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status if: 16.1. clinical or laboratory test results indicate the presence of animals with enzootic bovine leukosis or have suspicions that the animals are sick;
16.2. these provisions are not met, paragraph 15.
17. If in the laboratory studies of enzootic bovine leukosis in the herd for one animal establishes positive or suspicious or suspected at least one animal disease: 17.1. this animal and its offspring in accordance with authorisation by an official veterinarian shall be sent to the slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter. The sick animal's offspring with the permission of the official veterinarian may not be slaughtered immediately after birth is different from my mother, and act in accordance with this rule 18.3. the requirements referred to in subparagraph;
17.2. three months after the sick animal and its offspring to slaughter or separation of all remaining animals on the holding older than 12 months, serological investigation. The herd is considered safe if 12 months at least twice with an interval of four months serological tests with negative results;
17.3. The food and veterinary service organised by the epizootiological studies to detect possible infected sites, where the animals are sick animals with contacts. Respective holdings in accordance with the provisions referred to in subparagraph 17.2. requirements carried out serological studies.
18. If the herd animals in the laboratory in several studies on enzootic bovine leucosis found positive or suspicious or suspected presence of several animals:

18.1. the affected animals, and their descendants in accordance with the authorization given by the official veterinarian to the slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter. Descendants in accordance with the authorization given by the official veterinarian may not be slaughtered if after birth they immediately separated from her mother and act in accordance with this rule 18.3. the requirements referred to in subparagraph;
18.2. after the slaughter of sick animals as a whole that are older than 12 months, serological investigation. The herd is considered safe if 12 months at least twice with an interval of four months serological tests with negative results;
18.3. to whole animals after their identification: 18.3.1. leave the herd to 24 months of age and laboratory investigations to determine the presence of enzootic bovine leucosis;
18.3.2. in accordance with the authorization given by the official veterinarian shall send to the slaughterhouse for slaughter;
18.4. a food and veterinary service organised by the epizootiological studies to detect possible infected sites, where the animals have been in contact with sick animals. Accommodation in accordance with the rules in paragraph 18.2 above requirements carried out serological studies.
19. These rules 17 and 18 in laboratory investigations on agents for enzootic bovine leukosis carried out through the opening of an immune reaction of the agar gel diffusion, Antigen standardization method or the Elisa test.
20. State or its administrative territory is recognised as officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free country or administrative area, if you run one of the following: 20.1. State or its administrative territory of existing sites meet this provision 14. the requirements referred to in paragraph 1 and not less than 99.8% of all housing is free of bovine leukosis enozootisk sites;
20.2. State or its administrative territory, the following requirements shall be met: 20.2.1. the last three years, the State or its administrative territory in laboratory animal studies have not found a positive or suspicious results, as well as during that period, there is a requirement to report promptly to the competent authority, if the animal is found in the lymph nodes or construct other organs and they are subject to laboratory investigation of disease with enzootic bovine leucosis;
20.2.2. not less than 10% of all herds where the animals older than 24 months, the last two years at random are tested using this provision, paragraph 19, and the results are negative;
20.2.3. all the administrative territory of the animals that are older than 24 months, the last two years has been tested using this provision, paragraph 19, and the results are negative;
20.3. the State or its administrative territory is implemented by the food and veterinary service developed and approved for enzootic bovine leukosis, a national monitoring program, in which a specific laboratory methodology provides a 99% confidence level and a corresponding to the program resulting in the laboratory studies of enzootic bovine leukosis has occurred not more than 0.2% of all herds investigated.
21. the State or its administrative territory retain officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free State or its administrative territory status if: 21.1. after slaughter all animals carried out post-mortem inspection, which shall be sent to the laboratory by open neoplasia investigation to uncover the possible agents for enzootic bovine leukosis;
21.2. The food and veterinary service shall report to the European Commission in all cases where the presence of animals detected with enzootic bovine leucosis;
21.3. all animals which laboratory studies were positive or which caused suspicion with enzootic bovine leukosis, slaughtered, but the animal herds made these rules 17 and 18 these measures to enable livestock to get officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free status of the herd;
13.3. all animals older than 24 months every five years, laboratory investigations, using one of the following methods: 21.4.1. immune reaction of agar gel diffusion, Antigen standardization method or the Elisa test.
21.4.2. investigations in accordance with the food and veterinary service developed and validated for enzootic bovine leukosis laboratory methodologies that guarantee 99% confidence, and the resulting in laboratory studies of enzootic bovine leukosis has occurred not more than 0.2% of all herds investigated.
22. If enzootic bovine leucosis during the three years the State or its administrative territory is no more than one herd of livestock, then 10000 State or its administrative territory retain officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free State or its administrative territory status, provided that each year the animals older than 12 months, the laboratory investigates random checking 1% of herds with paragraph 19 of these rules in the following methods.
23. the officially enzootic-bovine-leukosis-free State or its administrative territory status cancelled in the event of failure to comply with these rules 19 and 20 in those conditions.
IV. final question 24. Rules 9 and 21.2. subparagraph shall enter into force on 1 May 2004.
Informative reference to European Union directives, the provisions included in the law arising from the directives 64/432/EEC, 77/78/52/EEC and 391EEC.
Prime Minister e. Repše Minister of Agriculture m. Roze Editorial Note: rules shall enter into force on the 20th February, 2004.