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332

PRESIDENT OF THE GOVERNMENT

announces the full text of Act No. 166 / 1999 Coll., on Veterinary Care and on the amendment of certain related laws (Veterinary Act), as follows from the amendments made by Act No. 29 / 2000 Coll., Act No. 154 / 2000 Coll., Act No. 102 / 2001 Coll., Act No. 76 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 120 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 320 / 2002 Coll., Act No. 131 / 2003 Coll., Act No. 316 / 2004 Coll., Act No. 444 / 2005 Coll., Act No. 48 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 186 / 2006 Coll., Act No. 124 / 2008 Coll.

THE LAW

on veterinary care

Parliament has decided on this law of the Czech Republic:

ČÁST PRVNÍ

HEALTH

HLAVA I

BASIC PROVISIONS

§ 1

Subject matter

This Act implements the relevant provisions of the European Communities (1) and, following the directly applicable rules of the European Communities (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations of the European Communities'), lays down the requirements of veterinary care (hereinafter referred to as the" veterinary requirements') on breeding and animal health and on animal products, regulates the rights and obligations of natural and legal persons, the system, the competence and competence of the public administration in the field of veterinary care, and certain professional veterinary activities and their pursuit.

§ 2

Veterinary care

Veterinary care under this law includes:

(a) animal health care and protection, in particular the prevention and spread of diseases communicable, directly or indirectly, between animals of susceptible species (hereinafter referred to as "disease") and other animal diseases and their eradication, the protection of human health from diseases communicable from animals to humans;

(b) care for the health of animal products and feedingstuffs and the protection of human health against its damage or the risk of animal products;

(c) the protection of the territory of the Czech Republic from the introduction of animal diseases and diseases communicable from animals to humans and from the import of animal products and feed which are harmful to health,

(d) the protection of the environment against adverse effects related to animal husbandry, the production and processing of animal products, and the protection of animals and their production from risks arising from the contaminated environment;

(e) veterinary rendering;

(f) supervision of compliance with the obligations and requirements laid down in this Act, the specific legislation1b) and the European Community2) (national veterinary surveillance).

§ 3

Basic concepts

(1) For the purposes of this Act:

(a) any breeder who owns or holds an animal or animals or is authorised to take care of them, whether for consideration or free of charge, including for a transitional period;

(b) holdings of any construction, establishment or place where the livestock is kept or kept, including open-air farming. Where more than one herd is kept on the holding or more than one group of livestock which may become ill with the same disease or disease communicable from animals to humans (hereinafter referred to as "susceptible animals'), each or each group shall be a separate epidemiological unit having the same health status,

(c) livestock mainly used for farming, fattening, work and other economic purposes, in particular cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys and their cross-breeds, poultry, runners, rabbits, fur animals, farmed game, fish and other aquatic animals and bees;

(d) livestock intended for slaughter and processing and the meat of which is intended for human consumption;

(e) the introduction of animals by the concentration of animals of different breeders at the designated place and for the intended purpose, in particular the animal market, the exhibition or show of animals, performance tests and breeding competitions,

(f) the assembly centre of the holding, market or other place where animals are collected from different holdings, in particular cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, to form groups of animals to be dispatched;

(g) animals suspected of being infected with animals which show clinical signs or post-mortem changes which give rise to suspicion of being infected with animals or animals which, according to the results of the examination, are to be considered as suspected of being infected with animals;

(h) animals suspected of being infected with animals which do not show clinical signs or post-mortem changes which are suspected to be a specific disease of animals but which, on the basis of the epidemiological or other information obtained, may be considered to have come into contact directly or indirectly with its source;

(i) quarantine the temporary, operational and locally separated location of animals suspected of being infected or suspected of being infected ("suspected animals") during which preventive, diagnostic and, where appropriate, therapeutic actions are carried out to prevent the introduction or spread of animal diseases;

(j) by isolation of the temporary separate location of the animals prior to their inclusion in the herd or prior to their movement from a holding during which preventive and diagnostic operations are carried out and the health of the animals are monitored;

(k) an outbreak of the holding or other place where one or more cases of the disease have been detected;

(l) the disease situation in a specific territory or holding;

(m) health reasons for the presence and possible spread of the disease;

(n) animal products of raw material of animal origin, namely meat, offal, fats, skin, bone, blood, glands with internal secretion, horns, antlers, hooves, wool, hair, feathers, also milk, eggs, honey and bee wax, as well as products of these materials intended for human and animal consumption;

(o) animal health products animal products which comply with the health requirements laid down in this Act, with specific legislation3) and European Community3a),

(p) feed of products of plant or animal origin fresh or preserved and products of industrial processing, as well as organic and inorganic substances with or without the addition of additives intended for animal feeding, whether or not in mixtures,

(r) animal feed which complies with the health requirements laid down in this Act, with specific legislation4) and European Community4a);

(s) veterinary medicinal products in bulk which are intended for animals, in particular dietetic, vitamin, mineral and cosmetic products, or for the specific laboratory diagnosis of animal or disease agent diseases from foodstuffs of animal origin; products subject to specific legislation (5) are not considered to be veterinary products;

(t) by veterinary technical means, equipment, apparatus, equipment, materials or other objects or products, including accessories, used alone or in combination with the necessary programme equipment intended for use in animals for the purpose of prevention, investigation, diagnosis, monitoring, treatment or mitigation of disease, injury or disability, replacement or modification of the anatomical structure or physiological process, or control of pregnancy, and which do not achieve their principal intended function in or on the body of the animal by pharmacological or immunological action or by affecting the metabolism of which such functions may be supported; products intended for the labelling of animals and which are introduced into the body of the animal for that purpose shall also be considered as veterinary technical means,

(u) the withdrawal period between the last administration of the medicinal product to animals under normal conditions of use of the product concerned and the moment when food may be obtained from such animals in such a way as to ensure that those foodstuffs do not contain residues of the medicinal product in quantities exceeding the maximum levels laid down by specific European Community and Community legislation (5);

(v) slaughter of the slaughter animal for the purpose of the use of its products in a manner which is not contrary to the rules on the protection of animals against torture (6);

(x) the death of an animal without bleeding, in a manner which is not contrary to the rules on the protection of animals against abuse (6),

(y) veterinary goods: animals, animal products, feed and articles, where they may carry disease agents;

(z) articles which may bear disease agents, live animal diseases for research or other purposes, and articles used in the treatment and transport of animals, animal products and feedingstuffs, in particular water, feed, litter, means of transport, packaging, tools, tools and working aids, and other objects, if for other reasons they may be carriers of disease agents,

(aa) by putting into circulation offers for sale, sale or other form of supply for consumption, including storage and transport for sale or other offers for consumption;

(bb) trading between Member States of the European Union (hereinafter referred to as "the Member State") in animals and animal products originating in the Member States, as well as in animals and animal products originating in non-Member States (hereinafter referred to as "third countries") which are in free circulation in the Member States,

(cc) the means of transport is part of a road vehicle, a railway vehicle, an aircraft or a ship, intended for the carriage of goods and a container used for road, rail, air or water transport;

(dd) a consignment of a certain quantity of animals of the same species or a certain quantity of animal products of the same species covered by the same health certificate or other accompanying veterinary or commercial document, where appropriate, transported by the same means of transport;

(ee) by approving the granting of consent to an activity on the basis of compliance with the conditions laid down by this law;

(ff) registration of entry in the list,

(gg) the official veterinarian of the veterinary authority; the official veterinarian shall also be considered to be the veterinarian of the Ministry of Defence or of the Ministry of Interior who has been entrusted with the tasks assigned to official veterinary practitioners under this Act,

(hh) a private veterinarian performing a veterinary medical and preventive activity in an entrepreneurial manner;

(ii) by an approved veterinarian, a private veterinarian approved by the Regional Veterinary Administration for the network of epidemiological monitoring and for the pursuit of certain statutory activities;

(j) a treating veterinarian, a private veterinarian carrying out a veterinary treatment and preventive activity in a holding or in an animal holding which has become familiar with the health status of animals kept or kept on that holding.

(2) Where animals are referred to in this Act, this means, depending on the nature of the matter and circumstances, semen, egg cells, embryos, hatching eggs, fertilized eggs and bee breeding.

(3) Where there is talk of venison in this law, this means for the purposes of this law the body as well as all edible parts of wild game bodies (7).

(4) Where a part of the territory of a State is referred to as a region in the European Communities' legislation in relation to animals, this is understood to mean, for the purposes of this Act, a country).

(5) The treatment of animal by-products shall not be subject to the Waste Act, except in the cases provided for in the European Community Regulation 7b).

(6) Where, in the context of legal relations governed by the regulations of the European Communities, concepts whose content and meaning are not defined in that law but in those regulations are used in that law, the definition of those terms shall be based on those rules for the purposes of that law.

(7) Where this law refers to free movement of persons or recognition of professional competence concerning a Member State, it shall also mean another Contracting State of the Agreement on the European Economic Area or the Swiss Confederation.

HLAVA II

ANIMAL HEALTH AND PROTECTION

Oddíl 1

Obligations of breeders

§ 4

(1) The breeder shall:

(a) keeping animals in a manner, environment and conditions which require their biological needs, physiological functions and health status, and preventing damage to their health;

(b) monitor the health of the animals and, where justified, provide them with first aid in due time and request professional veterinary assistance;

(c) prevent the emergence and spread of diseases and other animal diseases and fulfil the obligations laid down in this Act or on the basis thereof to combat such diseases or other diseases of the animals (7c);

(d) provide the necessary synergy and assistance in order to properly carry out the required examination of the animal, sampling, protective vaccination or any other professional veterinary activity such as the fixation of the animal, the demonstration of the pet animal;

(e) administration to animals of medicinal products subject to veterinary prescription only as instructed by the veterinarian;

(f) ensure that dogs, foxes and badgers, held in captivity, are vaccinated against rabies from 3 to 6 months of age, 7d in force, and then re-vaccinated during the period of effectiveness of the previous vaccine used, retain the vaccine evidence for the duration of the vaccination and submit it to the authorities carrying out national veterinary surveillance upon request;

(g) ensure that dogs, cats and pet ferrets, when moved between Member States for non-commercial purposes, are identified in a specified manner and accompanied by a document containing information enabling the identification of the animal and its status to be checked (passport) 7e, issued by a veterinarian approved for that activity; the records of these passports are kept by the Chamber of Veterinary Doctors of the Czech Republic ("the Chamber '). The approval of a private veterinarian may be suspended or withdrawn if the latter has issued a passport with demonstrably false data, or in breach of the conditions laid down in this Act or in the European Community provisions (7f). The implementing legislation shall lay down in more detail the labelling of dogs, cats and ferrets for pet animals, the allocation of means of identification and shall lay down the formalities, the method of issuing and numbering passports, the keeping of their records, the particulars to be contained in the passport and its model,

(h) ensure that, without delay and to the extent strictly necessary to rule out suspicion of rabies disease, an animal which has injured or has come into direct contact with a person in a manner or circumstances which may give rise to suspicion of the disease by that disease,

(i) comply with the obligations arising from the rules of the European Community7g).

(2) For insemination, transfer of embryos and natural breeding only animals which, according to the results of the examination, fulfil the conditions laid down in this Act and the breeding law (8) may be used.

(3) A breeder intending to use animals for experiments9 is obliged to request the Regional Veterinary Administration or the Municipal Veterinary Administration in Prague (hereinafter referred to as the Regional Veterinary Administration) to determine the conditions of veterinary care (hereinafter referred to as the "veterinary conditions") for their implementation.

§ 5

(1) The livestock farmer is also obliged to:

(a) to ensure that examinations, health tests and compulsory preventive and diagnostic operations are carried out in the framework of veterinary health control and health inheritance, to the extent and time limits laid down by the Ministry of Agriculture (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry") in accordance with Paragraph 44 (1) (d), to maintain their results for at least 1 year and to submit them to the authorities carrying out national veterinary surveillance upon request. If laboratory testing of samples is also necessary, this shall be carried out in the laboratory referred to in Section 52 (3),

(b) ensure, to the extent appropriate to the animal species, the manner in which they are kept and the housing of cleaning, disinfecting, disinfecting and exerting stables, other premises and facilities in which animals are kept, as well as cleaning and disinfection of technological equipment, means of transport, machinery, tools, tools, work aids and other objects that come into direct contact with animals, use for this purpose products approved under this Act or specific legislation (9a), follow the instructions for their use and treat the animal by-products as provided for in this Act and European Communities (b);

(c) in the event of a risk of introduction into and proper operation of diseases or diseases communicable from animals to humans,

(d) to use water for feeding animals which does not endanger the health of the animals and the health of their products and to use only healthy feed for feeding animals;

(e) to administer to animals only medicinal products in accordance with the rules for their use in the provision of veterinary care (5), veterinary products approved under this Act, additives in accordance with specific legislation4) and to comply with the conditions for the administration of certain substances and preparations to animals whose products are intended for human consumption (§ 19), to provide the necessary synergy to the authorities which carry out sampling and investigations in connection with the implementation of the monitoring plan for the presence of certain substances and their residues in animals, animal products, feedingstuffs and water (hereinafter referred to as the "monitoring plan for certain substances and their residues"), and to comply with the measures adopted on the basis of this investigation;

(f) not to administer to animals substances and preparations the use of which is not authorised in livestock or in animals whose products are intended for human consumption (Sections 19 (1) and (3) (9c);

(g) submit, on request to the authorities carrying out national veterinary surveillance, the records provided for in specific legislation9d) and allow access to such records also to a private veterinarian issuing a certificate of animal health and the disease situation at the place of origin (hereinafter referred to as the "health certificate");

(h) in the case of farmed game, notify the Regional Veterinary Administration at least 7 days in advance of the commencement and cessation of its breeding activity in relation to farmed game farming.

(2) A breeder who, as an entrepreneur, (10) maintains livestock for business purposes is also obliged to:

(a) notify the Regional Veterinary Administration at least 7 days in advance of the commencement and cessation of business, as well as inform the Regional Veterinary Administration without undue delay of any changes to be made to the housing arrangements or species of kept animals;

(b) to place on the market only animals not authorised or prohibited (4) substances or preparations (§ 19), to keep records of when and which medicinal products and substances which may adversely affect animal products have been administered to animals, to submit such records to the veterinarian without delay in order to record the administration of medicinal products to animals or the vaccination of animals, to retain such records for at least 5 years and to comply with withdrawal periods;

(c) to ensure that only persons eligible for such activity under specific legislation11 have basic knowledge of animal welfare and health requirements for the production of animal products,

(d) to process and update, in accordance with the approved principles (Article 44 (1) (c)), the contingency plan in the event of the occurrence of dangerous diseases and diseases communicable from animals to humans, as well as in the event of an emergency situation (hereinafter referred to as the contingency plan) and, in accordance with the national programme for the control of one or more diseases, diseases communicable from animals to humans and agents of those diseases and diseases (hereinafter referred to as the "animal recovery programme"), submit it for approval by the Regional Veterinary Administration and follow the programme.

(3) The implementing act provides for:

(a) animal health requirements for the environment in which animals are kept, for their treatment and protection against diseases and diseases communicable from animals to humans and for their marketing;

(b) which substances and preparations may not be put into circulation and administered to animals which cannot be administered to animals of certain species and which substances and preparations may only be administered to animals of certain species under certain conditions and these conditions;

(c) the procedure for the processing of contingency plans and recovery programmes of breeders, the aspects under which those plans and programmes are to be processed and what they are to contain;

(d) in which cases and under which conditions the veterinary authorities may authorise, within the limits laid down by the legal acts of the European Communities, the mitigation of animal health and welfare requirements.

§ 5a

(1) In the case of farming of aquaculture animals for business purposes, the breeder shall also:

(a) to ask the Regional Veterinary Administration for approval and registration, or only for the registration of an undertaking, establishment or other establishment in which those animals are kept or kept (hereinafter referred to as "aquaculture animals establishment"), to notify the Regional Veterinary Administration of the date of commencement of the breeding activity, to operate it after approval or registration, and to notify the Regional Veterinary Administration of changes to the data referred to in the application. The application shall specify:

1. in addition to the particulars provided for in the Administrative Rules, the telephone, fax or e-mail address,

2. the species of aquaculture animals kept, the ways in which they are kept, the sources of water and the discharge points;

(b) keep records of movements of aquaculture animals and products thereof into or out of a holding in a manner that allows for the identification of the place of origin and destination of the animals moved, the mortality of aquaculture animals in each epidemiological unit and for the retention of control reports made from official controls carried out for at least 2 years after their receipt.

(2) The Regional Veterinary Administration shall approve and register and, where appropriate, register aquaculture animal establishments where such establishments comply with the animal health requirements laid down for such establishments and their operation, and its activities do not pose an unacceptable risk of spreading diseases to farms or mollusc farming areas, or of spreading diseases in the aquaculture population of the wild in the vicinity of the farm or mollusc farming area. However, before any non-approval, the Regional Veterinary Administration, acting on a proposal from the applicant, shall consider possible risk mitigation measures, including possible alternative location of the establishment.

(3) Where the Regional Veterinary Administration finds that the obligations of the breeder or the rules on aquaculture animals laid down by this Law are not complied with, approval and registration may be suspended or withdrawn.

(4) The implementing act provides for:

(a) the content of the particulars of the application for approval and registration, and, where appropriate, the registration of aquaculture animals establishments, the manner and dates of notification of changes to the data contained in the application;

(b) which aquaculture animal establishments may only be registered;

(c) animal and public health requirements for aquaculture animals and their farming, the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and products thereof and the discharge of wild aquatic animals into aquaculture animals establishments;

(d) the manner in which the lists of approved and registered and, where applicable, only registered aquaculture animals establishments and the records of the breeder referred to in paragraph 1 (b) are kept.

Oddíl 2

Translocation and national transport of animals

§ 6

(1) Unless otherwise provided, the breeder from whom the animal is moved is obliged to request a health certificate for movement

(a) the animal to the assembly centre (§ 9a);

(b) an economic animal outside the territory of the county (7a) to another holding or person buying and selling cattle, pigs, sheep and goats (§ 9b); However, this shall not apply to horses, donkeys and their cross-breeds registered under the Breeding Law (8); or

(c) the experimental animal, unless it is a breeding or supplying animal (6).

(2) The animal health certificate shall also be required to transfer an animal within or outside the protection or surveillance zone, or, where appropriate, other restricted zones, where the movement takes place on the basis of emergency veterinary measures in cases where this law or European Community legislation allows for an exemption from the exit ban.

(3) The health certificate is not required for movement

(a) horses, asses or their crossbreeds, where the health certificate is replaced by a horse passport (13);

(b) a dog, if the health certificate is replaced by a passport or a vaccination certificate, which contains a record that the dog has a valid rabies vaccination at the time of transfer;

(c) piglets, lambs and kids under 3 months of age, as well as poultry, rabbits and fish, unless they are moved to a breeder who is an entrepreneur (10), intend to keep them for business purposes or use them as experimental animals; or

(d) pigs, sheep and goats intended for domestic slaughter.

(4) The animal health certificate for the movement of the farm animal shall be issued only if the required health tests have been carried out and the conditions laid down in Article 5 (1) (a) have been met and the animal is marked and registered in accordance with the breeding code 9d). The breeder from whom the animal is moved shall transmit a copy of the results of these tests to the breeder whose holding the animal is moved.

(5) The movement of the animal referred to in paragraph 1 (b) shall be notified by the Regional Veterinary Administration of the place of origin of the animal to the Regional Veterinary Administration whose perimeter the animal is to be moved to. Where an animal is moved to a herd or group of animals (hereinafter referred to as "the herd ') where the disease situation is better than in the original herd, the breeder shall place the animal in isolation in accordance with the instructions of the county veterinary administration in whose district the animal has been moved before being included in the herd; This does not apply to the relocation of bees. The period of isolation shall be determined by the Regional Veterinary Administration, which may also require the breeder to place in isolation an animal which has taken part in the segregation of animals before re-entry into the herd.

(6) The animal health certificate for movement must accompany the animal until its destination and must be kept by the breeder for at least 1 year from the date of issue.

(7) The time limit for the submission of an application for an animal health certificate for movement shall be at least:

(a) two working days before the date of the intended movement of the animal, if it is an animal for which the health tests referred to in paragraph 4 have been carried out; or

(b) 14 days before the date of the expected movement of the animal in other cases.

(8) Unless otherwise specified, the period of validity of the health certificate shall be 72 hours after its issue. However, the Regional Veterinary Administration may, where justified, provide for a different period of validity of the veterinary certificate and indicate it in it.

(9) Where an animal is moved in accordance with paragraph 1, the breeder shall also require a health certificate issued by the approved veterinarian for that activity before the application for the veterinary certificate is submitted [Paragraph 3 (1) (ii)]; This does not apply to the movement of bees. The approved veterinarian who has issued the health certificate shall keep a copy for 3 years.

(10) The Regional Veterinary Administration may decide to suspend or withdraw the approval of a veterinarian for the issue of health certificates if that veterinarian has infringed his obligation [Article 61 (1) (e)] by confirming false information in the health certificate or by issuing a health certificate in breach of the requirements of this law or of European Community regulations.

(11) The implementing act provides for:

(a) the conditions for issuing the animal health certificate and the health certificate for the movement of the animal and its contents;

(b) the animal health requirements for the placing and keeping of animals in isolation, including the establishment of veterinary professional operations to be carried out in connection with the placing and keeping of animals in isolation;

(c) in which cases and under which conditions the veterinary authorities may authorise, in accordance with the laws of the European Communities, exemptions from the animal health requirements applicable to movements of animals between Member States, if they are temporarily moved to pasture or used for sports, cultural or other similar purposes.

§ 7

(1) The collection of animals for transport, loading, transhipment and unloading shall be carried out under the supervision of the breeder or his authorised person. The places on which the animals are collected, loaded, transhipped and unloaded shall comply with the animal health and welfare requirements and be regularly cleaned and disinfected.

(2) Animals may be transported only under the conditions laid down in this Act, the Animal Protection Act (6) and the European Communities provisions governing the protection of animals during transport (14); the veterinary authorities shall supervise compliance with these conditions.

(3) Only means of transport and equipment which:

(a) comply with their structure, layout and equipment with the requirements for the transport of animals of the species concerned, do not harm their health, does not cause them pain and suffering, prevents them from escaping or falling out and protects them against adverse weather effects;

(b) are secured against the loss or leakage of water, feed, litter, feces and other waste;

(c) have been cleaned and disinfected before and after transport;

(d) comply with the other requirements laid down by the Animal Protection Act (6) and the provisions of the European Communities governing the protection of animals during transport (14).

§ 8

(1) A carrier holding a permit for the transport of bovine, porcine, ovine or caprine animals by the Regional Veterinary Administration under this Act and the provisions of the European Communities governing the protection of animals during transport (14) is obliged to:

(a) have at their disposal suitable facilities for cleaning and disinfection of means of transport, approved by the Regional Veterinary Administration, including places (s) for storage of litter and manure, or provide proof to the Regional Veterinary Administration that this activity is carried out by another person approved by the competent authority;

(b) use means of transport for the transport of animals which have been cleaned and disinfected with registered disinfectants and procedures immediately after any transport of animals or products likely to affect animal health, if necessary before any new loading of the animals, or products authorised for circulation (5);

(c) ensure that the animals transported are accompanied by the required accompanying documents;

(d) ensure that the animals transported do not come into contact with animals of lower health status during transport between leaving the holding or collection centre of origin and arriving at the place of destination;

(e) keep, for each vehicle used for the transport of animals, records of shipments carried out and of the cleaning and disinfection of the vehicle and indicating in them:

1. place, date and time of arrival of the animals for transport;

2. the name and surname or business name and address of the holding or assembly centre in which the animals were taken over;

3. expected time of transport,

4. the place, date and time of delivery of the animals transported;

5. the name and surname or business name and address of the consignee or recipients of the animals transported;

6. the species and number of animals transported,

7. particulars of accompanying documents, including their numbers;

8. date and place of cleaning and disinfection of the vehicle,

(f) keep the records referred to in (e) for at least 3 years and submit them on request to the authorities carrying out national veterinary surveillance.

(2) The provisions of paragraph 1 shall not apply to hauliers carrying bovine animals or pigs within a distance of not more than 65 km, counted from the place of dispatch to the place of destination.

(3) A person who operates slaughterhouses, a place intended to be used on a regular basis, or another place where animals are regularly transported, is obliged to create conditions for the carrier to be able to clean and disinfect the vehicle used in its establishment after the transport of the animals.

(4) Where the transport of aquaculture animals is concerned, the carrier shall keep a record of the mortality of such animals during transport, where possible in relation to the species of such animals transported, farms, mollusc farming areas and processing facilities visited by the means of transport and of the water exchanges during transport, in particular the sources of water and its discharge points.

(5) The implementing act lays down the procedure and procedures for cleaning and disinfection of means of transport used for the transport of animals, the requirements for premises intended for the cleaning and disinfection of such means of transport, as well as other requirements for preventing and spreading diseases during the transport of animals.

§ 9

Animal production

(1) The collection of animals can only be organised under national veterinary supervision.

(2) The organiser of the dispatch of animals is obliged to ask the municipality to authorise the dispatch of animals.

(3) Furthermore, the organiser of the dispatch shall, before submitting the application referred to in paragraph 2, request from the Regional Veterinary Administration the animal health conditions for carrying out the dispatch of animals and ensure compliance with them.

(4) The Regional Veterinary Administration registers circuses, issues registers of circus animals (hereinafter referred to as "circus animals") and registers of circus performance sites and carries out other tasks for veterinary authorities under European Community rules governing animal health requirements for movements of circus animals between Member States 14a). The animal health conditions laid down by the provisions of the European Communities governing the animal health requirements for the movement of circus animals between Member States 14a) for movements of circus animals between Member States shall also apply to the national movement of such animals.

(5) The passports for circus animals are issued by an approved veterinarian for this activity (§ 3 (1) (ii)) and confirmed by the official veterinarian of the competent regional veterinary administrations; the records of these passports are kept by the Chamber. The approval of a veterinarian for this activity may be suspended or withdrawn from a veterinarian who has issued a passport showing evidence of false data or in contravention of the conditions laid down in European Community provisions on animal health requirements for the movement of circus animals between Member States 14a).

§ 9a

Collection centre

(1) The assembly centre must:

(a) be

1. organised and equipped in a manner appropriate to the purpose of the assembly centre, including equipment for the exercise of state veterinary supervision;

2. cleaned and disinfected before use as instructed by the official veterinarian,

3. located at the time when the animals are collected in an area not subject to emergency veterinary measures applicable to animals of the species concerned,

(b) receive only animals which are marked and registered in accordance with the Breeding Act 9d and accompanied by a veterinary certificate and have been inspected on arrival at the assembly centre by an official veterinarian or an approved veterinarian;

(c) ensure appropriate care and well-being for animals;

(d) have a sufficient number of veterinary surgeons approved for the assembly centre;

(e) comply with the obligations and requirements laid down for the assembly centre by this law and the provisions of the European Communities governing the protection of animals during transport (14);

(f) be subject to national veterinary supervision.

(2) The operator of the assembly centre shall keep, for a period of at least 3 years, and, on request, provide the authorities carrying out national veterinary surveillance with records of the data relating to the animals received and their breeders, their place of origin and the places of dispatch to which they are dispatched, the carriers and means of transport which bring the animals to and from the centre.

(3) The assembly centre must be approved and registered by the Regional Veterinary Administration; such approval may be limited to a particular type of animal, to breeding and production animals or to slaughter animals. The Regional Veterinary Administration shall approve and register a assembly centre which, by its arrangement, material and personnel equipment, corresponds to the purpose and veterinary requirements of the Centre and shall assign it a veterinary approval number. Where the Regional Veterinary Administration finds that the obligations of the operator of the assembly centre are not respected or the rules governing the operation of the centre laid down by this Act, it shall be entitled to suspend or withdraw the approval.

(4) The Regional Veterinary Administration shall, at the time of approval of the veterinarian of the assembly centre, verify that the veterinarian has no financial interest in the relevant assembly centre and is not close to the operator of the assembly centre. It may decide to suspend the approval of an activity in a assembly centre to a private veterinarian if that veterinarian fails to fulfil the obligations or does not comply with the requirements of the veterinarian of the assembly centre and its activity, as laid down by this law or by European Community regulations, or may decide to withdraw the approval of an activity in the assembly centre to a private veterinarian if that veterinarian repeatedly fails to fulfil the obligations or does not comply with the requirements of the veterinarian of the assembly centre and its activity, as laid down by that law or European Community rules.

(5) The implementing act provides for:

(a) the organisation, material and personnel of the assembly centre;

(b) animal health requirements for animals entering the assembly centre;

(c) details of the application for approval of the assembly centre;

(d) the data recorded by the operator of the assembly centre.

Citation	Full text of Act No. 332 / 2008 Coll., Act No. 166 / 1999 Coll., on Veterinary Care and on the amendment of certain related laws (Veterinary Act), as resulting from subsequent amendments
Regulation Type	Declared full text
Author	-
Collection	Code of Laws

Date of Promulgation	08.09.2008
Effective from	-
Effective until	-
Status	Valid

Full text of Act No. 332 / 2008 Coll.

Full text of Act No. 166 / 1999 Coll., on Veterinary Care and on the amendment of certain related laws (Veterinary Act), as resulting from subsequent amendments

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ČÁST PRVNÍ

HLAVA I

§ 1

§ 2

§ 3

HLAVA II

Oddíl 1

§ 4

§ 5

§ 5a

Oddíl 2

§ 6

§ 7

§ 8

§ 9

§ 9a

§ 9b

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