The establishment of origin of donor porcine animals
Article 89
1. Consignments of semen, oocytes and embryos of porcine animals shall only be permitted to enter the Union if they were collected from animals which came from establishments: (a) which comply with the requirements laid down in Article 23; (b) in the case of donor animals of semen prior their admission to a quarantine accommodation, in which no clinical, serological, virological or pathological evidence of infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus had been detected during the period of at least the preceding 12 months. 2. Consignments of semen of porcine animals shall only be permitted to enter the Union if they were collected from animals: (a) prior to their admission to a quarantine accommodation, which came from establishments which were free from infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis in accordance with requirements laid down in Chapter IV of Part 5 of Annex II to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/686; (b) which were kept at a quarantine accommodation which on the date of admission was free of infection with Brucella abortus , B. melitensis and B. suis for a period of at least the 3 months preceding that date; (c) which were kept in a semen collection centre in which no clinical, serological, virological or pathological evidence of infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus was reported for the period of at least 30 days prior to the date of admission and of at least 30 days immediately prior to the date of collection; (d) which were kept, since birth or for at least 3 months prior to the date of entry into the quarantine accommodation, in an establishment in which no animals were vaccinated against infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and no infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus was detected within that period.