Article 7

The Commission shall use the following assessment parameters in order to determine whether a disease meets the conditions requiring it to be listed in accordance with Article 5(2): the disease profile, which shall comprise the following: the animal species concerned by the disease; the morbidity and mortality rates of the disease in animal populations; the zoonotic character of the disease; the resistance to treatments, including antimicrobial resistance; the persistence of the disease in an animal population or in the environment; the routes and speed of transmission of the disease between animals and, when relevant, between animals and humans; the absence or presence and distribution of the disease in the Union, and, where the disease is not present in the Union, the risk of its introduction into the Union; the existence of diagnostic and disease control tools; the impact of the disease on: agricultural and aquaculture production and other parts of the economy, as regards: the level of presence of the disease in the Union; the loss of production due to the disease; other losses; human health, as regards: transmissibility between animals and humans; transmissibility between humans; the severity of human forms of the disease; the availability of effective prevention or medical treatment in humans; animal welfare; biodiversity and the environment; its potential to generate a crisis situation and its potential use in bioterrorism; the feasibility, availability and effectiveness of the following disease prevention and control measures: diagnostic tools and capacities; vaccination; medical treatments; biosecurity measures; restrictions on the movement of animals and products; killing of animals; disposal of carcasses and other relevant animal by–products; the impact of disease prevention and control measures, as regards: the direct and indirect costs for the affected sectors and the economy as a whole; their societal acceptance; the welfare of affected subpopulations of kept and wild animals; the environment and biodiversity.

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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.