Additional animal health requirements for donor equine animals from which semen, oocytes and embryos were collected
Article 23
1. The centre veterinarian shall ensure that equine animals admitted to a semen collection centre and the team veterinarian shall ensure that equine animals used for the collection of oocytes and embryos or the production of embryos comply with the following requirements prior to the collection of the germinal products: (a) they come from an establishment: (i) where surra ( Trypanosoma evansi ) has not been reported during the period of the preceding 30 days, or where surra ( Trypanosoma evansi ) has been reported during the period of the preceding 2 years and following the last outbreak the affected establishment remained under movement restrictions until: — the infected animals have been removed from the establishment, and — the remaining animals in the establishment have been subjected to a test for surra ( Trypanosoma evansi ) with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 3 of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688, with negative results carried out on samples taken at least 6 months after the last infected animal has been removed from the establishment; (ii) where dourine has not been reported during the period of the preceding 6 months, or where dourine has been reported during the period of the preceding 2 years and following the last outbreak the affected establishment remained under movement restrictions until: — the infected animals have been killed and destroyed or slaughtered, or the infected entire male equine animals have been castrated, and — the remaining equine animals in the establishment, with the exception of the castrated male equine animals referred to in the first indent kept apart from female equine animals, have been subjected to a test for dourine with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 8 of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688, with negative results, carried out on samples taken at least 6 months after the measures described in the first indent have been completed; (iii) where equine infectious anaemia has not been reported during the period of the preceding 90 days, or where equine infectious anaemia has been reported during the period of the preceding 12 months and following the last outbreak the affected establishment remained under movement restrictions until: — the infected animals have been killed and destroyed or slaughtered, and — the remaining equine animals in the establishment have been subjected to a test for equine infectious anaemia with one of the diagnostic methods provided for in Part 9 of Annex I to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688, with negative results, carried out on samples taken on two occasions at least 3 months apart after the measures described in the first indent have been completed and the establishment was cleaned and disinfected; (b) in the case of semen donors, they were kept for a period of 30 days prior to the date of semen collection in establishments where no equine animal has shown any clinical sign of infection with equine arteritis virus or of contagious equine metritis during that period; (c) they fulfil the additional animal health requirements laid down in Part 4 of Annex II. 2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1(a), the movement restrictions referred to in paragraph 1(a)(i) to (iii) must remain in place for a period of at least 30 days, beginning on the day on which all the animals on the establishment of species listed for the respective disease referred to in paragraph 1(a)(i) to (iii) were either killed and destroyed or slaughtered, where allowed in accordance with paragraph 1(b), and the establishment was cleaned and disinfected.