European Communities (Aquaculture Animals and Fish) (Placing on the Market and Control of Certain Diseases) Regulations, 1996.

Regulation 4 prescribes requirements for holding or displaying for sale, offering for sale, selling, delivering, transferring or any other form of placing on the market of fish and fish products in the European Union. Regulation 5 defines requirements regarding transportation. A person shall not introduce into a zone specified in column 2 of Schedule 2 from any place in the European Union, or subsequently move within that zone, any live fish, eggs or gametes specified in column 3 opposite the reference to such zone unless they are accompanied by valid movement documents in the form specified in column 4 opposite the reference to such zone and such live fish, eggs or gametes (reg. 8). The Minister shall establish and maintain a register of all farms rearing or keeping fish susceptible to List I or List II (as contained in Schedule 1) diseases. A person who manages a farm on which fish species specified in column 2 of List I or List II in Schedule 1 are reared or kept shall apply to the Minister for the Marine to have the farm entered in the said register. Regulation 13 requires a person who manages a registered farm to keep records, whereas regulation 14 requires persons who manage a farm registered to notify occurrence of fish diseases. Subsequent regulations define procedures in the case of suspicion of occurrence List I or List II diseases. Regulation 22 places restriction on vaccination of fish. (24 regulations completed by 8 Schedules)