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Member States shall ensure that aquaculture animals of species susceptible to one or more of the non-exotic diseases listed in Part II of Annex IV, and products thereof, may only be placed on the market for further processing in a Member State, zone or compartment declared free of those diseases in accordance with Articles 49 or 50, if they comply with one of the following conditions: they originate from another Member State, zone or compartment declared free of the disease in question; they are processed in an authorised processing establishment under conditions which prevent the spreading of diseases; as regards fish, they are slaughtered and eviscerated before dispatch; or as regards molluscs and crustaceans, they are dispatched as unprocessed or processed products.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.