Article 14

Member States shall ensure that: (a) in general: - the use of specific immune-serum or sero vaccination is prohibited, requirements relating to swine fever vaccine established in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 16 are observed, swine fever vaccines imported into a Member State from third countries fulfil the same conditions as those produced in the Member States and are authorized and checked by the competent central authority in the importing Member State; where swine fever is detected on a holding or in a production unit: (i) the measures to control the disease may be supplemented by the vaccination of pigs in the other production units or on holdings threatened with contamination in a territorial area demarcated by the competent authority. the pigs vaccinated are permanently marked in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority. Without prejudice to national provisions where they provide for preventive vaccination of pigs against swine fever, whether in all or part of the national territory, where all categories of pigs are vaccinated pursuant to the preceding subparagraph, sows of breeding age vaccinated may leave the vaccinated area only to be taken to a slaughterhouse for slaughter,

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.