Council Directive 80/217/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of classical swine fever.

This Directive introduces Community measures for the control of classical swine fever. Member States shall ensure that the presence and suspected presence of swine fever are compulsorily and immediately notified to the competent authority. Where a holding contains one or more pigs suspected of being infected with swine fever, Member States shall ensure that the official veterinarian immediately sets in motion official means of investigation to confirm or rule out the presence of the said disease.
In cases where the presence of swine fever is officially confirmed the competent authority must prescribe that: all pigs on the holding must be slaughtered, after slaughter all carcasses must be destroyed, meat of pigs slaughtered must wherever possible be traced and destroyed, the carcasses of pigs which have died on the holding must be destroyed, all substances and waste likely to be contaminated, such as feedingstuffs, must be subjected to a treatment ensuring the destruction of any swine fever virus present; the buildings used for housing the pigs, the vehicles used for transporting them and all equipment likely to be contaminated must be cleaned.
Once the diagnosis of swine fever has been officially confirmed, the competent authority shall establish a protection zone with a minimum radius of 2 km around the infected holding. These measures shall be applied in the protection zone: the movement of pigs on public or private roads shall be prohibited other than for transport in transit, the pigs may not be removed from the holding on which they are kept except to be transported directly to a slaughterhouse under official supervision for the purpose of immediate slaughter.
Annex I establishes diagnostic procedures for the confirmation of swine fever, Annex II concerns national swine fever laboratories, Annex III epizootiological information. (20 articles and 3 Annexes)