Act No. 66 / 1961 Coll.
Veterinary Care Act
Valid
Effective from 01.10.1961
66
THE LAW
of 26 June 1961
on veterinary care
The National Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
Basic provisions
The purpose of this act is to adapt veterinary care to meet the needs of socialist livestock production, to promote its development, to ensure the health of livestock farms, to contribute to the prevention of diseases communicable from animals to humans, while at the same time ensuring the creation of conditions for the production of healthy and valuable food and raw materials of animal origin and feed, both in agricultural production and in industrial processing.
Veterinary care
(1) Veterinary care covers the universal protection of animal and animal health (hereinafter referred to as "animals"), in particular by hygiene of their breeding, breeding, nutrition, the environment, treatment and transport (movement) and the search for and disposal of the causes of mass diseases. Veterinary care shall include the protection of the health of feed, a sufficient number of effective veterinary biopreparations, pharmaceuticals, investigational and therapeutic aids and needs, as well as the disposal of dead animals, confiscates and waste of animal origin, or care for their effective and safe use.
(2) A significant part of veterinary care is the protection of national territory against the introduction and spread of animal diseases, the recovery of livestock farms and the treatment of sick animals.
Veterinary care shall be carried out in full compliance with the tasks of sanitary and anti-epidemic care and the plan for the development of socialist agricultural production and the food industry; the individual measures are based on political and economic analyses and make use of the latest knowledge of science. Scientific research in the veterinary field focuses on the needs of veterinary care.
(1) Veterinary care is an inseparable part of the performance of production and other work tasks in uniform agricultural cooperatives, state holdings and other agricultural establishments and undertakings processing food and raw materials of animal origin and feed.
(2) In such establishments and undertakings, their managers shall be responsible for carrying out the tasks of veterinary care in the single agricultural cooperatives of the board; they shall appoint eligible staff to carry out these tasks.
(3) All workers in these establishments and businesses are obliged to participate actively in the performance of veterinary care tasks and to continue to complete their basic knowledge on this section.
(1) Veterinary care requirements must correspond to the projects, construction, reconstruction and maintenance of animal buildings and equipment, as well as to undertakings and their facilities for the production and processing of food and raw materials of animal origin and feed.
(2) The standards of animal products, food and raw materials of animal origin and feed may only be approved if they also comply with the veterinary requirements; the technological and working procedures for their production and processing must also comply with veterinary care requirements.
Prevention
(1) Animal health, universal care and care of the healthy farming environment, as well as effective prevention of diseases and animal diseases by respecting zoohyphinic principles and veterinary measures and by continuous preventive inspections of animals, are essential for the development of animal production and production of valuable food and raw materials of animal origin.
(2) The national committees are responsible for the comprehensive development of veterinary care in agricultural establishments already in the preparation of a plan for the development of agricultural production and ensure that veterinary care requirements are applied in long-term and annual plans for the development of agricultural production in socialist agricultural establishments.
(3) Animal breeders and caregivers are obliged to acquire basic knowledge of the progressive ways of rearing animals, the protection of animal health, the symptoms and the emergence of animal diseases, the spread of animal diseases and the transfer of certain diseases between humans and animals, the timely notification of suspected diseases as well as of diseases and deaths of animals, and in particular to ensure:
(a) breeding of healthy animals by consistent compliance with the principles of hygiene of breeding, nutrition, the environment and the treatment of animals;
(b) the health of food and raw materials of animal origin and feed in particular in agricultural primary production;
(c) first aid and the request for professional veterinary assistance to sick animals and the implementation of the veterinary measures laid down.
(1) Seats for animal setups, in particular shopping and reception places for animals for slaughter, places for the holding of markets and exhibitions of animals, establishments for the slaughter of animals (hereinafter referred to as "slaughterhouses"), undertakings and establishments for the processing and treatment of food and raw materials of animal origin and feed, their collection and storage facilities and their operation shall comply with the requirements of veterinary care; the transport (movement) of animals, foodstuffs and raw materials of animal origin must be carried out in agreement with them.
(2) The places, undertakings and establishments referred to in paragraph 1 are subject to veterinary supervision.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water shall, in agreement with the central authorities involved, lay down the animal health conditions for imports from abroad, transit through the national territory and export of animals, food and raw materials of animal origin, as well as other objects which may bear the embryos of contagious animal diseases. Foreign trade undertakings and transport undertakings are responsible for their compliance.
Diseases and other animal diseases
(1) The emergence and suspicion of diseases and other animal mass diseases must be immediately reported to the national committee and to the veterinary centre, disease and disease examined by competent veterinary staff and protection and control measures implemented without delay.
(2) The control of animal diseases is generally carried out in accordance with the recovery plans of agricultural establishments approved by the District National Committee.
(3) In order to decide on measures to combat diseases and other animal diseases, the national committees shall, as appropriate, set up closer (disease) commissions at the agricultural committee. The Commission shall have between 5 and 7 members elected by the national committees from among their experts, from farm workers, institutes, establishments, etc. As a general rule, the National Committee shall elect a Member - a member of the Agricultural Commission - as chairman of the Commission, as the secretary of the Committee, as a general rule, a competent veterinarian of a county or county veterinary establishment.
(4) In the event of very dangerous diseases and other mass diseases, particularly if there is a risk of delay, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water may take extraordinary measures to combat them quickly.
Inspection of slaughter animals and meat
(1) Animals for slaughter (bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses and other ungulates, poultry and rabbits), the meat of which is intended for public supply, are subject to a compulsory veterinary examination prior to slaughter, at slaughter and after slaughter (inspection of slaughter animals and meat).
(2) Animals for slaughter intended for consumption in the owner's own household (so-called domestic slaughter) are also subject to veterinary testing, except for healthy lambs and kids up to 3 months old, rabbits and poultry.
(3) Meat of animals for slaughter is marked and may be used according to the result of the inspection; the meat unexamined and the meat marked as non-edible according to the result of the inspection shall not be put into circulation.
(4) Swine, fish and other animals or parts thereof, if intended for feeding or feeding, shall be subject to veterinary examination if the implementing act so provides.
(1) Animals for slaughter intended for public supply must be slaughtered in slaughterhouses; the buying places for slaughter animals must be separated from the slaughterhouse.
(2) Sick animals and animals suspected of being slaughtered in slaughterhouses must be transported to special slaughterhouses (sanitary) or, where appropriate, to sanitary departments of slaughterhouses, unless otherwise provided by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water in agreement with the Ministry of Food Industry and other participating central authorities for justified cases. Details of the mode of transport and the cost of transport of these animals shall be laid down in the implementing act.
Veterinary care, inspection of animals for slaughter and meat and health protection of food and raw materials of animal origin
(1) The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Aquaculture, in close cooperation with the Regional National Committees, is methodically managing, controlling and assisting the performance of veterinary care and inspection tasks for slaughter animals and meat; in accordance with the principles published together with the Ministry of Health, it manages, regulates and controls the implementation of sanitary measures to ensure the health of food and raw materials of animal origin, both in their production in agriculture and imports from abroad and in their processing, treatment, preservation, transport and storage, until they are released into circulation. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water shall carry out the veterinary activity in the cases referred to in Section 9 (4).
(2) The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water shall establish, for the purpose of carrying out and controlling the tasks referred to in paragraph 1, establishments, institutes and undertakings and shall take care, in conjunction with the national committees on the education of professional cadres.
(3) The Regional National Committees ensure the tasks of veterinary care and supervise their implementation, organise measures to combat diseases and other mass diseases, carry out inspections of animals for slaughter and meat and provide for the professional treatment of animals; in accordance with the principles referred to in paragraph 1, measures shall be taken to ensure the health of foodstuffs and raw materials of animal origin. The professional activities to carry out these tasks shall be carried out by competent veterinary staff of district veterinary establishments; those workers also carry out health surveillance on food and raw materials of animal origin in close cooperation with the authorities of the sanitary and anti-epidemic services.
(4) Local national committees shall ensure that veterinary care is carried out directly in agricultural establishments and shall, to the extent provided, take urgent measures to combat diseases and other animal mass diseases; in cooperation with the district national committees, organise the dissemination of knowledge of universal veterinary care through targeted awareness-raising activities. Veterinary staff of veterinary establishments work closely with local national committees and assist them in the application of veterinary care.
(5) The national committees shall, when managing and supervising the performance of the tasks referred to in the preceding paragraphs, rely fully on the participation and initiative of the workers and on their voluntary social organisations.
(1) In carrying out the tasks provided for in Section 12, national committees may in particular:
(a) to provide the responsible manager of agricultural establishments, industrial, transport and other undertakings, establishments, institutes and offices and to individual persons with binding instructions necessary for the application of proper veterinary care;
(b) order appropriate and necessary measures to protect animal health, to prevent and control the spread of diseases and other animal diseases, and, where appropriate, to order the killing of animals, treatment and, in the extreme case, the destruction of objects which bear the germs of infectious diseases, and the isolation of persons or other restrictions in personal contact;
(c) order measures to protect animal health from diseases common to animals and humans;
(d) prohibit the production, processing and putting into circulation of food and raw materials of animal origin and feedingstuffs, or, where appropriate, order their removal from storage, other means of use or disposal, if they are disabled, less valuable or if there is a risk of further deterioration.
(2) The Regional National Committees may instruct the competent veterinary staff of their veterinary establishments to take certain measures referred to in paragraph 1. The district national committee shall decide on the appeal against the measures taken by these workers.
(3) Professional veterinary staff shall be authorised to enter agricultural establishments, industrial, transport and other undertakings, establishments, institutes and offices in the performance and control of the tasks referred to in Article 12, to require the documents and data necessary for carrying out their activities, to take samples for examination and to require the assistance necessary for the proper performance of the veterinary activity. No replacement shall be granted for the samples taken for testing.
(4) The heads of organisations referred to in paragraph 3, their personnel and, where appropriate, other persons whose participation is necessary in the performance of the activities of professional veterinary staff, shall be obliged to assist in their activities, to provide the required data, material and personal assistance in the investigation, inspection and assessment of animals, food and raw materials of animal origin. In the case of organisations where permanent veterinary surveillance is necessary, the heads of such organisations shall be required to provide assistance in kind and in particular to allow for proper testing of animals for slaughter and meat and laboratory testing.
(5) Actions under this law carried out by competent veterinary staff shall be free of charge, unless otherwise provided by specific regulations or by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water.
General and final provisions
(1) The management of the production of veterinary biopreparations produced in institutes and other establishments subject to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management, the supervision of their production and distribution as well as the surveillance of their imports are the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management.
(2) The production, import and putting into circulation of animal-growing products is permitted only with the consent of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water.
Veterinary care in the services and facilities of the armed forces shall be governed by regulations issued by the Ministry of Interior and National Defence. The authorities of the armed forces shall act in close cooperation with the national committees in carrying out veterinary care, mutatis mutandis under this law.
Measures for diseases in animals transmissible to humans shall always be implemented in close cooperation with the sanitary and anti-epidemic services.
The specific provisions lay down in which cases and under which conditions State aid is granted to compensate or mitigate the damage caused by the slaughter of animals or the death of animals in the event of diseases and other mass diseases, or of protective and control measures, as well as compensation for the loss of earnings or expenses incurred by workers as a result of isolation ordered by the measures against animal diseases.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management shall, in agreement with the Ministry of Health and other participating central authorities, issue regulations for the implementation of this Act.
It shall be repealed:
1. Act No. 187 / 1950 Coll., on the Improvement of Animal Production;
2. Government Decree No. 99 / 1952 Coll., on the organisation of veterinary services and on certain veterinary measures (veterinary rules).
This Act shall take effect on 1 October 1961.
Novotný v. r.
Fierlinger v. r.
Broad v. r.
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 66 / 1961 Coll., on Veterinary Care |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 08.07.1961 |
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| Effective from | 01.10.1961 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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