S.L. 437.98 Art. 6Trade in ungulates. S.L. 437.50 S.L. 437.81 S.L. 437.48 S.L. 437.48 S.L. 437.50 S.L. 437.81 S.L. 437.79 9 S.L. 437.48 S.L. 437.79 S.L. 437.48 S.L. 437.48 10 [

Without prejudice to the provisions of rules 14 and 15, the competent authority shall ensure that ungulates of species other than those referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition ‘animals’ in rule 2, may be the subject of trade only if they meet the following requirements:

(a) in general they -

(i) must be identified in accordance with Community rules and Maltese legislation to ensure traceability;

(ii) must not be intended for slaughter under a programme for the eradication of an infectious disease;

(iii) must not have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease and must satisfy the relevant requirements of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease

(Control Measures) Rules and the Foot-and-Mouth

Disease (Control Measures) Rules as well as regulation 4 of the Animal Health Problems affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine Regulations;

(iv) must come from a holding, referred to in regulation 3(2)(b) and (c) of the Animal Health Problems affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine Regulations, which is not the subject of animal health measures, particularly those taken under the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control Measures) Rules, the Foot-and-

Mouth Disease (Control Measures) Rules and the Health Conditions governing Intra-Community Trade in Ovine and Caprine Animals Rules, as well as Directive 80/217/EEC, and have been kept therein permanently since birth or for the last thirty days before dispatch;

(v) must be accompanied by a certificate corresponding to the specimen in Part I of Schedule E, bearing the declaration in Schedule;

(b) in the case of ruminants: S.L.437.98 LAID DOWN IN SPECIFIC COMMUNITY ACTS [

(i) they must come from an officially tuberculosis-free and officially brucellosis-free herd in accordance with the Animal Health Problems affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine Regulations or the Health

Conditions governing Intra-Community Trade in Ovine and Caprine Animals Rules and satisfy, as regards animal health rules, the relevant requirements laid down for the bovine species in regulation 3(2)(c), (d), (f), (g) and (h) of Directive 64/42/ EEC or rule 3 of Health Conditions governing Intra-Community Trade in Ovine and Caprine Animals Rules;

(ii) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions laid down in paragraph (i), they must come from a holding in which no case of brucellosis or tuberculosis has been recorded in the forty-two days preceding loading of the animals and in which the ruminants have in the thirty days prior to dispatch undergone with negative results a test for brucellosis and tuberculosis;

(iii) in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Directive 92/65/EEC, provisions may be adopted regarding leucosis;

(c) in the case of suidae:

(i) they must not have come from an area which is the subject of prohibition measures associated with the presence of African swine fever in accordance with regulation 9 of the Animal Health

Problems affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine Regulations;

(ii) they must come from a holding which is not subject to any of the restrictions laid down in Directive 80/217/EEC as a result of classical swine fever;

(iii) they must come from a brucellosis-free holding in accordance with the Animal Health Problems affecting Intra-Community Trade in Bovine Animals and Swine Regulations and satisfy the relevant animal health requirements laid down for swine in the said regulations;

(iv) where they do not come from a herd meeting the conditions set out in the previous sub-paragraph, they must, in the thirty days prior to their dispatch, have undergone with negative results a test designed to show the absence of antibodies to brucellosis;

(d) the testing requirements referred to in this rule and their criteria shall be established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Directive 92/65/ EEC; S.L.437.98 LAID DOWN IN SPECIFIC COMMUNITY ACTS

(e) under the procedure laid down in rule 12, the health certificates, specimens of which are reproduced in Schedule F, may be amended or supplemented, in particular in order to take account of the requirements of this rule;

(f) the trader, owner, the keeper, the dealer, the importer, the consignee, the carrier, the retailer or any other person authorised under the Act to dispose of live animals shall be responsible for the animals being traded and shall abide by all the provisions of these rules and of article 37(1) of the Act at all times.