The establishment of origin of donor bovine animals
Article 86
Consignments of semen, oocytes and embryos of bovine animals shall only be permitted to enter the Union if they were collected from animals which came from establishments that comply with the following requirements and those animals have never been kept previously in any establishment of a lower health status: (a) comply with the requirements of Article 23; (b) in the case of donor animals of semen prior to their admission to a quarantine accommodation, were free from the following diseases: (i) infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex ( M. bovis , M. caprae and M. tuberculosis ); (ii) infection with Brucella abortus , B. melitensis and B. suis ; (iii) enzootic bovine leukosis; (iv) infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/infectious pustular vulvovaginitis.