Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1554 laying down rules for the application of Directive 2006/88/EC as regards requirements for surveillance and diagnostic methods.

This Decision is adopted in implementation of Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals. It lays down rules for: (a) the surveillance, buffer zones, sampling and diagnostic methods to be used by Member States in connection with the disease status of the Member States or zones or compartments thereof for the non-exotic aquatic animal diseases listed in Part II to Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC; (b) the diagnostic methods to be used for laboratory examinations in the case of the suspicion or confirmation of the presence of listed diseases; and (c) the minimum control measures to be applied in the event of the suspicion or confirmation of a listed disease in a Member State, zone or compartment not declared free of that listed disease.
Eradication programmes aims to achieve Category I health status with regard to listed diseases, and include the establishment of the protection and surveillance zones in the vicinity of the farm(s) officially declared infected with listed diseases; one health inspections; and disinfestation, cleansing and fallowing of infected farms.