Article 2
The plan referred to in Article 1 must provide for, apart from an indication of the organization that is to implement and coordinate it: 1. measures to eliminate outbreaks of African swine fever, and more particularly: (a) the immediate killing and destruction of all the animals of porcine species on those holdings: - where a clinical case of African swine fever is diagnosed, - which, as a result of an epizootiological investigation, can be considered as contaminated. Killing and destruction shall be effected in such a way as to avoid any danger of spreading the virus; (b) the cleansing and disinfection of, and elimination of insect and rodent pests from, the holdings referred to in the first indent of (a) after the elimination of the pigs; (c) immediate and adequate compensation for the owners of holdings whose pigs have been slaughtered in accordance with (a); (d) a delay for health reasons before restocking of holdings, the duration of such delay being at least one month after slaughter and the completion of the operations provided for in paragraph (b) for holdings operating in enclosed premises and at least three months for other holdings; (e) the gradual restocking of holdings by the prior introduction of 'sentinel' pigs, in which the absence of African swine fever antibodies has been checked prior to their entry into the holding and again one month later; (f) continous serological surveillance of holdings until they are fully restocked; (g) the establishment of a protection zone with a radius of at least three kilometres when a clinical case as referred to in the first indent of (a) has been diagnosed. The zone must be established for at least 30 days. Swine may not leave the holdings on which they are kept during the first 15 days. Between the 15th and 30th day, the pigs may leave the holding only in order to be transported under official supervision directly to a slaughterhouse for immediate slaughter. Such transport may be authorized by the competent authority only after the official veterinarian has carried out an examination of all swine on the holding and confirmed that none of the swine may be suspected of being infected with African swine fever; 2. measures for the surveillance and protection of pig farms, and in particular: (a) serological testing by representative samples from all pig farms in each province beginning in the Nuoro province. However, the following rules shall apply in the special cases described below: - in the case of breeding farms, multiplication farms or mixed closed circuit farms, all breeding sows and young sows intended for breeding must be subjected to serological investigation at regular intervals, - in the case of mixed farms receiving pigs from external sources, if no clear separation exists between the breeding and the pig fattening unit, all the pigs on the holding must be subjected to serological investigation at regular intervals; (b) systematic serological investigation on all farms where one or more animals have reacted positively to the serological test provided for in (a) and the continuation of this investigation until all positive animals have been detected and eliminated; (c) an epizootical investigation to identify the holdings on which pigs reacting postively to serological tests originate or may have had contact and systematic serological investigation on such holdings; (d) a serological screening (pre-movement test) of all pigs being moved for breeding and fattening; (e) serological testing by sampling of pigs at the time of their slaughter; (f) elimination by slaughter and destruction of all animals reacting positively to serological tests following measures provided for in (a) to (d); (g) immediate and adequate compensation for owners of pigs slaughtered and destroyed in accordance with (f); (h) laboratory testing of representative samples from slaughtered wild pigs; 3. measures for identification of pigs and registration of pig farms, and in particular: (a) the establishment of a system identifying all pigs in Sardinia so that the province and holding of origin can be traced at any time; (b) the registration of all holdings engaged in pig farming in Sardinia, specifying the type of production, the size of their stock, entries of pigs to the holding and their origin, exit of pigs and their destination; 4. measures to construct facilities for sanitary control, identification and bleeding of pigs kept mainly in the free grazing areas.