Regulation No. 631 on animal health (the Animal Health Regulation).

The objective of the present Regulation is to encourage the prevention and control of animal diseases that can be transmitted to other animals or to humans. The Regulation contains 46 sections divided into the following chapters: I. Objective, scope of application, and implementation; II. Supplementary national provisions for aquatic animals - listing and notification; III. Supplementary national provisions - measures for category E diseases and nationally listed disease in aquatic animals; IV. Supplementary national provisions - general measures for wild aquatic animals; V. Supplementary national provisions for land animals, reptiles, amphibians and marine mammals - listing and reporting; VI. Supplementary national provisions - additional measures for diseases in terrestrial animals, reptiles, amphibians and marine mammals; VII. Supplementary national provisions - general preventive measures in facilities where land animals, reptiles, amphibians and marine mammals are kept; VIII. Supplementary national provisions - duties of veterinarians and laboratories in connection with notification of diseases in terrestrial animals, reptiles, amphibians and marine mammals; XIX. Administrative provisions. The Annex contains national lists of diseases in terrestrial animals, reptiles and amphibians, and marine mammals. A list of antibiotic resistant bacterias is included.
The Regulation contains provisions supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health ("Animal Health Law") and Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1882 on the application of certain disease prevention and control rules to categories of listed diseases and establishing a list of species and groups of species posing a considerable risk for the spread of those listed diseases. The Regulation applies to (a) domestic and wild animals; (b) breeding material; (c) animal by-products and derived products; (d) facilities, means of transport, equipment and all other possible means of disease transmission; and (e) infectious diseases, including zoonoses. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority shall be responsible for enforcing, supervising and enacting necessary complementary decisions to ensure compliance with this Regulation.