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The Member State concerned shall obtain a financial contribution from the Community for the eradication of the disease, on condition that the measures applied immediately comprise at least the isolation of the holding from the time of suspicion and, following official confirmation of the disease: the slaughter of animals of susceptible species which are affected or contaminated or suspected of being affected or contaminated, and their destruction, and, in the case of avian plague, destruction of the eggs, the destruction of contaminated feedingstuffs and contaminated equipment, where the latter cannot be disinfected in accordance with the third indent, the cleaning, disinsectization and disinfection of the holdings and of the equipment on the holdings, the establishment of protection zones, the imposition of suitable measures to prevent the risk of the spread of infection, the establishment of a waiting period to be observed after slaughter before re-stocking of the holding, swift and adequate compensation of the livestock farmers.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-04 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.