Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/1624 of 4 August 2023 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2333 concerning certain emergency measures relating to sheep pox and goat pox in Spain (notified under document C(2023) 5415)Text with EEA relevance.

Article 3 of Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2333 is replaced by the following:

Article 3

Measures to be applied in the protection, surveillance and the further restricted zones

1. Movements of sheep and goats kept in the protection zone shall only be permitted if they are authorised by the competent authority and they comply with the conditions set out in paragraphs 2, 7 and 8.

1. Movements of sheep and goats kept in the protection zone may be authorised by the competent authority when such movements of sheep and goats are directly to a slaughterhouse located in the same protection zone as the establishment of origin, for immediate slaughter.

1. Movements of sheep and goats kept in the surveillance zone shall only be permitted if they are authorised by the competent authority and they comply with the conditions set out in paragraphs 4, 7 and 8.

1. Movements of sheep and goats kept in the surveillance zone may be authorised by the competent authority when such movements of sheep and goats are directly to a slaughterhouse located in the same surveillance zone as the establishment of origin, for immediate slaughter.

1. Movements of sheep and goats from the further restricted zone to a destination outside that further restricted zone shall only be permitted if they are authorised by the competent authority and they comply with the conditions set out in paragraph 6, and in paragraph 8, points (a) to (d).

1. The following movements of sheep and goats, kept in the further restricted zone, outside that zone within the territory of Spain, may be authorised by the competent authority of the place of origin:

(a) movements of sheep and goats directly to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter;

(b) movements of sheep and goats directly to an establishment located outside the further restricted zone, subject to the following conditions:

(i) the animals destined for movement were kept in the establishment of origin for a period of at least 30 days prior to the date of movement, or since birth if younger than 30 days;

(ii) the sheep and goats shall remain in the establishment of destination, for a period of at least 30 days after the date of arrival, except where they are moved directly to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter;

(iii) the sheep and goats destined for movement shall comply with one of the following requirements:

within the period of 48 hours preceding the time of loading, the sheep and goats on the establishment of origin must have been subjected to a clinical inspection and have not shown clinical signs or lesions of sheep pox and goat pox;

or

the sheep and goats destined for movement comply with any other similar animal health guarantees, based on the favourable outcome of a risk assessment of the measures against the spread of sheep pox and goat pox required by the competent authority of the place of origin.

1. The sheep and goats due for transport shall be subject to clinical inspection by the competent authority of the place of origin within a period of 24 hours or less before the time of transport.