Council Directive 98/45/EC amending Directive 91/67/EEC concerning the animal health conditions governing the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and products.

In Article 13, paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be replaced: "Where a Member State considers that its territory or part of its territory is free from one of the diseases listed in Annex A, it shall submit to the Commission appropriate justifications setting out: the name of the disease and the previous history of its occurrence, the results of surveillance testing based on serological, virological, microbiological or pathological findings, or identification of the parasite, as appropriate, the period over which the surveillance was carried out, the control arrangements for verifying that the area concerned remains free from the disease."
In Article 16 the following sentence shall be added: "The Commission, in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26, shall draw up specimens of the certificates which must accompany aquaculture animals, their eggs and gametes in intra-Community trade between non-approved zones as regards the diseases referred to in Annex A." Annex B shall be replaced by: all farms in the continental zone are placed under the supervision of the official services.