Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs No. 117 / 1961 Coll.
Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs on the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on veterinary measures to import, export and transit animals, raw materials and products of animal origin
Valid
Effective from 22.06.1961
117
DECLARATION
Minister for Foreign Affairs
of 6 October 1961
concerning the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on animal health measures relating to the import, export and transit of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin
On 14 November 1960, the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on veterinary measures to import, export and transit animals, raw materials and products of animal origin was signed in Prague.
The approval of the Agreement by the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic was notified to the Government of the People's Republic of Poland by a notice dated 7 June 1961 and its approval by the Government of the People's Republic of Poland was communicated by a note dated 22 June 1961.
Pursuant to Article 21 thereof, the Agreement entered into force on 22 June 1961.
The Czech version of the Agreement is hereby published at the same time.
V. Dr Gregor v. r.
AGREEMENT
between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on veterinary measures for the import, export and transit of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin
The Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland, led by an attempt to further deepen socialist cooperation in veterinary matters in order to protect and combat contagious animal diseases as well as the protection of human health and to ensure that this cooperation will serve to further strengthen friendly relations between the two States, have decided to conclude an Agreement on veterinary measures for the import, export and transit of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin and have appointed their agents to this end.
Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Jaroslav Silhavý,
Deputy Minister for Agriculture,
Forest and water management
Government of the People's Republic of Poland
Stanislaw Gucwu,
Deputy Minister for Agriculture,
who exchanged their powers of attorney and found them in perfect order and agreed in due form as follows:
(1) The Contracting Parties agree that consignments of animals, raw materials, products of animal origin and articles which may carry the germs of contagious animal diseases will be subjected to veterinary checks at border crossing points intended for the international transport of goods on importation, export or transit from the territory of one Contracting Party to, or via, the territory of the other Contracting Party. Border veterinary checks shall be carried out by border veterinary surgeons.
(2) The central veterinary authorities of both Contracting Parties shall exchange lists of border crossing points intended for the international transport of goods and inform each other of any changes and additions to those lists.
(1) Animals, raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as articles which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases, are imported after prior authorisation by the central veterinary authorities of the importing Party.
(2) The importing Party undertakes to take over for it a designated consignment of animals transported through the territory of the other Party in any case, even if, at the time of transport to the animals, a contagious disease is detected, but provided that the animals transported have been recognised as fit in the border crossing point of the exporting country.
(3) The transit of raw materials, products of animal origin and articles which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases originating in or intended for the territory of one of the Contracting Parties shall be effected without special authorisation under the conditions of this Agreement.
Compulsory veterinary checks within the meaning of this Agreement shall be subject to:
A. animals:
(a) hoofs of all species;
(b) unungulates of all kinds,
(c) poultry and birds of all kinds;
(d) carnivores of all kinds,
(e) other animals such as game, fur animals, alien animals, laboratory animals, fish and bees;
B. raw materials and animal products intended for human consumption and for feed and technical purposes;
C. articles which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases, in particular hay and straw.
(1) On importation, export and transit of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as articles which may bear the germ of contagious animal diseases, the consignments shall be accompanied by the following documents:
A. consignments:
(a) pullets and unungulates of all kinds by means of a certificate of origin issued by the competent administrative authorities and an official health certificate issued by an authorised veterinarian;
(b) poultry and other animals by an official health certificate issued by an authorised veterinarian;
B. consignments of raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as articles which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases by an official veterinary certificate issued by an authorised veterinarian.
(2) Proofs of origin and official health certificates will be drawn up on forms established by the central veterinary authorities of each of the Contracting Parties.
(1) The proof of origin must include the name of the place of origin of the animals, the municipality, the district, the region, the number, type and exact description of the animals, indicating the specific characteristics and the marking and the name of the owner of the animals. The certificate of origin shall also indicate that the place of origin is an animal disease, notifiable and transmissible to the species concerned, that the animals described in the certificate have lived continuously for at least 21 days prior to dispatch.
(2) For bovine animals and unungulates, a proof of origin shall be issued for each piece separately. For ovine, caprine and porcine animals, mass cards may be issued if the animals belong to the same species, if they come from the same yard and are transported by the same means of transport to the same destination.
(3) The proof of origin is valid for 10 days. If this period of time prior to the arrival of the animals at the border station is extended by the authorised veterinarian to a further 10 days, provided that no symptoms of contagious diseases have been detected in the re-examination of the animals and that the result of this investigation is recorded in the evidence.
(1) The official health certificate shall be drawn up by the authorised veterinarian after inspection of the animals before loading into each means of transport separately. This certificate shall include the name of the county, district, station and date of loading, the number of means of transport, the number and type of animals loaded, the name and address of the consignor, the place of destination, the number of accompanying certificates of origin and, in the case of animals for which a certificate of origin is not required, their description.
(2) The official health certificate shall contain particulars that the animals:
(a) have been examined during loading by an authorised veterinarian and have been recognised during a healthy examination;
(b) come from places free from the notification of compulsory contagious animal diseases and communicable to the species concerned;
(c) they have been transported from their place of origin to a loading station by places free of notification of compulsory contagious animal diseases and communicable to the species concerned.
(3) The official health certificate shall certify, in addition to the information already provided, that no foot-and-mouth disease has been detected in the entire territory of the Contracting Party during the last 12 months and that no foot-and-mouth disease has been detected within the last 6 months within a radius of 30 km of the place of origin of the animals.
(4) In addition to the particulars referred to in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 of this Article, the official health certificate shall certify that the following contagious animal diseases have not been detected:
(a) in the case of ruminants, Q-fever in the last 12 months within a radius of 15 km from the place of origin of the animals, sheep pox in the last 6 months within a radius of 30 km from the place of origin of the animals, dusty and lysy herpes in the last 6 months in the yard of origin of the animals;
(b) in the case of unungulates, African horse sickness in the territory of the whole country, contagious anaemia of horses in the last 12 months within a radius of 30 km from the place of origin of the animals, stallion disease and glanders in the last 6 months within a radius of 30 km from the place of origin of the animals, dust in the last 3 months within a radius of 10 km from the place of origin of the animals;
(c) for swine fever in the last 3 months within a radius of 15 km from the place of origin of the animals, contagious polio of pigs in the last 6 months within a radius of 15 km from the place of origin of the animals;
(d) in the case of rabies carnivores within the last 6 months within a radius of 30 km from the place of origin of the animals;
(e) in the case of steepy poultry, the plague of poultry, cholera of poultry and ornitóza-pssitakosis within the last 40 days within a radius of 10 km from the place of origin of the poultry;
(f) in the case of aquatic poultry, salmonella in the last 40 days in the backyard of poultry origin and ornitóza-psitakosis in the last 40 days within a radius of 10 km from the place of origin of poultry;
(g) in the case of ornamental birds, ornitóza-psitakosis within the last 6 months within a radius of 50 km from the place of origin of those birds;
(h) in the case of game and fur animals, tularemia and myxomatosis in the last 6 months within a radius of 50 km of the place of hunting or the place of origin of such animals;
(i) in the case of animals from zoos, no infectious disease communicable to the species concerned, provided that such animals have been kept for at least six months in the zoo from which they were dispatched;
(j) in the case of animals belonging to circuses, no contagious disease communicable to that species in the last 30 days;
(k) in the case of honey bees and honey bees in the last 6 months within a radius of 5 km from the place of the beehive.
(5) The official health certificate shall also contain the following particulars:
(a) that breeding cattle, goats and pigs come from a tuberculosis-free backyard, that the animals have been tuberculosis-free by indoor bovine and bird tuberculin with negative results, and that no more than 21 days have elapsed since the last tuberculination;
(b) that breeding animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species have been examined in a comprehensive manner for brucellosis with a negative result, that the examination has been carried out in a State laboratory and that the animals come from a brucellosis-free backyard in at least the last 12 months;
(c) that, at the request of the importing Party, breeding animals of the bovine species have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease in a period not less than 21 days but not more than 3 months before dispatch;
(d) that the result of the bacteriological examination of milk for infectious udder inflammation was negative in breeding cows and that no more than 14 days had elapsed since that examination until dispatch;
(e) that breeding sheep and cattle have been serologically examined for Q-fever and breeding sheep for pulmonary magnificence and motor life 14 days before handling with negative results;
(f) that the breeding animals are free of signs of suspicion of diseases in the sexual organs and the breeding bovine animals have been examined for Trichomonias and vibrios with negative results;
(g) that breeding pigs come from yards where, in the last 12 months, there has been no contagious wheezing, Aujeszky disease, contagious respiratory disease, that these pigs have been vaccinated against swine fever by a vaccine not containing live swine fever virus no more than a month ago;
(h) that unungulates have been maleated in the period not less than 15 days prior to dispatch with negative results and, in the case of unungulates, it must be confirmed that it has not been more than 21 days since the last serological examination on glanders, parathyroid flocculation and stallion disease with negative result that these animals originate from yards free of contagious mutilation and contagious respiratory infections;
(i) that the gait poultry comes from a pulor-free backyard and that the salmonella-free breeding poultry with the results of serological tests for those diseases were negative, that diphtheria, leukosis, ornitosa- psitakosis, respiratory infectious diseases, plague of poultry and neurolymphomatosis were not detected in the backyard of origin in the last 6 months, and that the result of tuberculination carried out in the poultry dispatched was negative for at least 21 days prior to dispatch;
(j) that the hatching eggs come from a pulora-free yard, salmonella, cholera, tuberculosis and diphtheria of poultry and that there has been no rinderpest in the last 30 days within a radius of 10 km from the yard of origin;
(k) fish intended for the introduction of freshwater waters come from disease-free waters which, under the regulations of the importing Party, are considered contagious;
(l) that dogs have been vaccinated against rabies for at least 14 days and not more than 6 months before dispatch.
(6) The official veterinary certificate of breeding animals shall indicate which diseases, when and what vaccine the animals have been vaccinated and when and by which method they have been examined.
(7) The central veterinary authorities of the two Contracting Parties shall jointly agree separately on each case the animal health conditions for consignments of semen.
(1) The official health certificate must contain, for consignments of meat and meat products:
(a) that slaughterhouses and factories where the meat has been produced or processed are under constant veterinary supervision and comply with animal health conditions;
(b) that animals before and after slaughter (game and fish after killing or catching) have been examined and recognised by the authorised veterinarian as free from contagious animal diseases, that hoofed animals come from places free from foot-and-mouth disease, pigs from areas free from swine fever and infectious polio of pigs and hoofed poultry from areas free from poultry sickness;
(c) that meat and meat products derived from such animals have been recognised as fit for consumption without restriction, as well as that meat of domestic and feral pigs has been tested on musculature with negative results. The meat must bear the stamp of the slaughterhouse where the animals were slaughtered. The same stamp shall bear the official health certificate;
(d) that meat and meat products do not contain substances the use of which is prohibited by the importing Party.
(2) The official health certificate shall cover only meat and meat products of the same kind, originating from the same supplier and dispatched to the same consignee.
(3) Meat may be exported as follows:
(a) meat of bovine animals and meat of unungulates skinned, halves or quarters;
(b) veal in or without skin, whole or in half;
(c) sheepmeat and goatmeat skinned whole or in half;
(d) pigmeat whole, in half or cut;
(e) aquatic poultry with or without their guts, fowl always gutted without heads and feet;
(f) game in the skin with or without offal;
(g) fish fresh, frozen, salted or smoked.
Consignments of consumer eggs must be accompanied by an official health certificate that they come from yards not infested by the notification of compulsory poultry diseases.
Consignments of raw materials and products of animal origin, other than those referred to in Articles 7 and 8 of this Agreement, shall be accompanied by an official health certificate certifying that they originate from animals free from contagious animal diseases, that they have been produced in establishments under constant veterinary supervision and have been processed in a manner that ensures their health to humans and animals.
When exporting articles which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases, in particular hay and straw, an official health certificate must be attached to the consignment that they come from places where foot-and-mouth disease has not occurred in at least the last 3 months.
Catching horses, sports dogs and pigeons, intended for sports competitions, can be balanced, imported and transported if they have confirmation of the relevant sports organisation. This certificate shall include the name, surname and residence of the owner, the exact description of the animals, the place of origin and the place of destination and the certificate by the authorised veterinarian that the animals are healthy and that the stables, dogs or doves and the place of origin of the animals are free for at least 40 days from contagious diseases communicable to the species of animals concerned. This certificate shall also include indications that horses have been maleinated with negative results not earlier than 15 days before dispatch and that dogs have been vaccinated against rabies.
(1) The unloading, transhipment and restocking of consignments of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as of objects which may bear the germs of contagious animal diseases, are not permitted during transport to border stations of the importing country. However, if, in the light of exceptional circumstances, the consignment has to be transhipped, it must be carried out in the presence of an authorised veterinarian, who shall re-examine the consignment and the result of the investigation at the transhipment station and shall indicate the reason for the transfer on the official health certificate.
(2) If an animal dies during transport, the carcass should be unloaded in the presence of an authorised veterinarian, who shall perform an autopsy and, if necessary, a further diagnostic examination when the cause of death is established. The result of the examination shall be recorded on the official health certificate with a precise description of the dead animal.
Where an authorised veterinarian, when carrying out veterinary checks at an export border station, finds that the consignment intended for export contains animals suffering from or suspected of being infected with diseases, or finds that the consignment does not comply with the animal health requirements of this Agreement, that consignment shall not be admitted to export.
(1) Consignments of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as articles which may bear the germs of contagious animal diseases, may be detained at the entry border station and returned to the other Contracting Party if they do not comply with the conditions of this Agreement. The competent border veterinarian shall state in the certificate the reasons for the detention and return of the consignment, which shall be endorsed by his signature and stamp.
(2) If, following the receipt of a consignment of animals on the territory of one of the Contracting Parties, it is necessary to indicate this in a report drawn up by an authorised veterinarian, that the consignment has a contagious disease. A copy of this Protocol shall be immediately notified to the central veterinary authorities of the other Contracting Party of the detection of an infectious disease. This consignment of animals should be treated in accordance with the rules of the Contracting Party in whose territory the disease has been detected.
(1) Where rinderpest or contagious bovine pleuropneumonia is present in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties, the competent authorities of that Party are required to immediately detain consignments of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin from the whole territory, as well as objects which may bear the germs of contagious animal diseases until specific agreement has been made to export the competent authorities of the other Contracting Party. The export ban may not last more than 12 months after the last outbreak of those diseases has ceased.
(2) Where foot-and-mouth disease occurs in the territory of one of the Contracting Parties, the competent authorities of that Party shall immediately suspend the export and transit of all susceptible animals as well as raw materials and products of animal origin to the territory of the other Contracting Party from the area and within the period provided for in Article 6 (3).
(1) Where an infectious disease of animals is introduced into the territory of one of the Contracting Parties from the territory of the other Contracting Party subject to compulsory notification, the competent authorities may, at the time of the risk of disease, restrict or suspend the import and transit of all animals coming from an infected or endangered area. In the same circumstances, restrictions or restrictions on imports and transit may also be extended to raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as to objects which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases.
(2) The central veterinary authorities of the Contracting Party which introduced the restrictions shall draw up a list of the goods to which those restrictions apply and deliver them directly to the central veterinary authorities of the other Contracting Party without delay.
Where anthrax, murmur, pasterelosis or roar of swine are present at the place of origin of the animals, import and transit of slaughter animals shall be allowed only if such animals do not come from a backyard contaminated or threatened with these diseases. Bovines for slaughter may be exported and transported even if they come from a backyard infected with tuberculosis or a trichonade disease of bovine animals.
(1) Cleaning and disinfection of means of transport intended for the transport of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin, as well as of objects which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases, shall be carried out in accordance with the rules of the Contracting Parties.
(2) The central veterinary authorities of the two Contracting Parties shall inform each other of the provisions in force concerning cleaning and disinfection of public transport vehicles.
The central veterinary authorities of both Contracting Parties shall be in direct contact with matters relating to the implementation of this Agreement.
The date on which this Agreement enters into force will expire on 10 February 1934.
This Agreement shall be subject to ratification or approval under the laws of each Contracting Party and shall enter into force on the date of the exchange of notes on such approval.
This Agreement shall be concluded for a period of five years from the date of its entry into force. It shall be extended for a further period of five years each time unless one of the Contracting Parties denies it at least six months before the end of the relevant period.
This Agreement was drawn up in Prague on 14 November 1960 in two copies, each in the Czech and Polish languages, the two texts being equally authentic.
For the Government
Czechoslovak Socialist Republic:
Insane, v. r.
For the Government
The Republic of Poland:
Gucwa v. r.
Sign in for notes, favorites and notifications
Regulation Information
| Citation | Decree of the Minister for Foreign Affairs No. 117 / 1961 Coll., on the Agreement between the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Government of the People's Republic of Poland on veterinary measures to be taken on the import, export and transit of animals, raw materials and products of animal origin |
|---|---|
| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 27.10.1961 |
|---|---|
| Effective from | 22.06.1961 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
Comments 0