Resolution No. 143 of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food validating Veterinary and Sanitary Rules for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Elimination of Equine Viral Arteritis.

These Veterinary and Sanitary Rules establish mandatory requirements for compliance by legal entities and natural persons, including those engaged in individual entrepreneurial activity, regarding the safety of work and services related to the maintenance, raising, breeding, movement, sale of animals and products of animal origin, aimed at the prevention, diagnosis and elimination of equine viral arteritis. Clinical signs of viral arteritis in horses include an increase in temperature to 39–41 °C, hyperemia of the mucous membranes of the nose and conjunctiva, lacrimation, serous discharge from the nose, difficulty breathing, photophobia, swelling of the eyelids, limbs, abdomen, muscle weakness, abortions in mares, and reproductive dysfunction in stallions. The disease may be asymptomatic. In order to prevent viral arteritis, legal entities and individuals, including those engaged in individual entrepreneurial activity, must fulfill the obligations established in Articles 13 and 14 of the Law On Veterinary Practice. The farms must be staffed with healthy horses from farms where no cases of viral arteritis have been detected for 6 months prior to the day of removal of the horses. Horses removed to breeding farms must be kept separately for 28 calendar days prior to the day of their removal from the farm for examination to detect clinical signs of viral arteritis and for laboratory tests (tests) for viral arteritis, which must yield a negative result. Horses received at farms, with the exception of sports horses for participation in competitions, are quarantined for 28 calendar days from the date of their import for the purpose of conducting an examination to identify clinical signs of viral arteritis and conducting laboratory tests (tests). Sports horses for participation in competitions must not have clinical signs of viral arteritis on the day of their import to the farm. Collection, processing, storage, export and use of sperm is prohibited from virus-carrying stallions, as well as the use of these stallions for mating.