(b)

place under official surveillance pig holdings in the defined infected area, and shall in particular order that: an official census be carried out of all categories of pigs on all holdings; the census shall be kept up to date by the owner. The information in the census shall be produced on request and may be checked at each inspection. However, as regards open-air pig holdings, the first census carried out may be done on the basis of an estimate, all pigs on the holding be kept in their living quarters or some other place where they can be isolated from feral pigs. Feral pigs must not have access to any material which may subsequently come in contact with the pigs on the holding, no pigs enter or leave the holding, except where authorised by the competent authority having regard to the epidemiological situation, appropriate means of disinfection and if necessary disinsectisation be used at the entrance and exits of buildings housing pigs and of the holding itself, appropriate hygiene measures be applied by all persons coming into contact with feral pigs, to reduce the risk of African swine fever virus spreading, all dead or diseased pigs with African swine fever symptoms on a holding be tested for the presence of African swine fever, no part of any feral pig, whether shot or found dead, nor any material or equipment which could be contaminated with African swine fever virus, shall be brought into a pig holding, pigs, their semen, embryos or ova shall not be moved from the infected area for intra-Community trade;

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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.