ANNEX IV

CRITERIA FOR CONTINGENCY PLANS Contingency plans shall meet at least the following criteria: 1. the establishment of a crisis centre on a national level, which shall coordinate all control measures in the Member State concerned; 2. a list shall be provided of local disease control centres with adequate facilities to coordinate the disease control measures at a local level; 3. detailed information shall be given about the staff involved in control measures, their skills and their responsibilities; 4. each local disease control centre must be able to contact rapidly persons/organizations which are directly or indirectly involved in an outbreak; 5. equipment and materials shall be available to carry out the disease control measures properly; 6. detailed instructions shall be provided on action to be taken, including means of disposal of carcases, on suspicion and confirmation of infection or contamination; 7. training programmes shall be established to maintain and develop skills in field and administrative procedures; 8. diagnostic laboratories must have facilities for post-mortem examination, the necessary capacity for serology, histology, etc., and must maintain the skills for rapid diagnosis (to that end arrangements should be made for rapid transportation of samples); 9. details shall be provided of the quantity of African horse sickness vaccine estimated to be required in the event of a reinstatement of emergency vaccination; 10. provisions shall be made to ensure the legal powers, necessary for the implementation of the contingency plans.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.