Act No. 87 / 1987 Coll.
Veterinary Care Act
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Effective from 01.01.1988
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87
THE LAW
of 10 November 1987
on veterinary care
The Federal Assembly of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic decided on this law:
Preliminary provisions
(1) The purpose of this Act is to create the preconditions for the performance and development of veterinary care as an important factor in the protection and consolidation of the health of farmed and wild animals, the protection of the environment, the growth of animal production and the production of health and hygiene-friendly and biologically valuable food and raw materials of animal origin ("animal products") in order to improve human nutrition and protect their health.
(2) Legal and natural persons are required to act in such a way that the necessary conditions for the protection and consolidation of animal health for the protection of the environment against harmful effects of animal production and for the protection of the health and biological values of animal products (hereinafter referred to as "animal products') are continuously and purposefully created.
Veterinary care
(1) Veterinary care includes:
(a) animal health care, including environmental hygiene, care, nutrition, breeding and transport; prevention and control of diseases and other animal diseases, including national recovery programmes,
(b) care for health and hygiene and the biological value of animal products in accordance with conditions laid down by specific regulations, 3), 4)
(c) care for health and dietary safety of feedingstuffs (hereinafter referred to as "feed health"),
(d) protection of the territory of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and against the introduction of disease agents, other animal diseases and animal health products and feed from abroad (hereinafter referred to as "veterinary protection of the national territory"),
(e) the protection of the environment against harmful effects from animals and the protection of animals against harmful effects from the external environment;
(f) the provision of medicines, preparations and supplies in accordance with the Special Act (1a);
(g) veterinary rendering.
(2) Part of veterinary care is to protect, in cooperation with health authorities, human health from diseases transmissible from animals to humans and vice versa and from damage or threat to animal products.
(3) Professional veterinary activities shall mean the professional veterinary activities linked to the carrying out of veterinary care referred to in paragraph 1 which require the specific competence of workers under Section 25 of this Act.
State administration in the veterinary care sector shall, in accordance with this Act and the provisions issued on the basis of it, or any other generally binding legislation governing the obligations of veterinary care
(a) the Federal Ministry of Economy,
(b) veterinary authorities of the Czech Republic and veterinary authorities of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as the veterinary authorities).
Professional veterinary activities shall be carried out:
(a) veterinary authorities for the purpose of the exercise of public administration;
(b) specialised organisations of the State Veterinary Service;
c) legal and natural persons within the scope and under the conditions laid down by this Act and by the laws of the Czech National Council and the Slovak National Council.
Federal Ministry of Economy
Federal Ministry of Economy
(a) to process and submit to the Government of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic draft principles of Federation policy on veterinary care;
(b) coordinate the development of science and technology and uniform security of the Federation's veterinary care policy, in particular for a uniform procedure in preventing and combating diseases and other animal diseases, in ensuring the health of animal products and feed and in the veterinary protection of national territory;
(c) ensure the settlement of international standardisation tasks and uniform implementation of standardisation in the veterinary care sector;
d) In cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Nutrition of the Republic, the Ministry of Veterinary Welfare ensures tasks arising from the development of interstate contacts and international cooperation, international treaties and membership of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic in international organisations.
Obligations of livestock farmers
(1) Breeders of livestock are required to:
(a) keeping animals in an environment and under conditions which allow the natural use of their production and reproduction capacity and the production of animal products which are not harmful, in particular to treat them properly, provide them with appropriate nutrition, use them in a manner appropriate to their species and category and monitor their health status;
(b) prevent and protect animal diseases from harmful effects and, if necessary, request veterinary assistance from animals and ensure the provision of first aid;
(c) comply
1. the measures provided for in order to prevent, combat and prevent the spread of diseases, other animal diseases and diseases communicable from animals to humans, and vice versa ("protection and control measures"),
2. animal health requirements including environmental hygiene, care, nutrition, breeding and transport.
(d) ensure health control of animals by type and level of farming within the time limits and to the extent laid down by the specific regulation.
(2) Breeders of other animals shall be subject to the obligations referred to in paragraph 1 to the extent appropriate to the species, manner and purpose of their rearing.
(3) Animal breeders are required to ensure that the environment is not threatened by animal husbandry.
Prohibition of animal abuse
Animals must not be abused.
Movement of animals
(1) As a general rule, the approval of the veterinary care authority which is granted by the issuing of the veterinary certificate should be required for movements of animals.
(2) Before being included in breeding, the breeder shall place the animals moved in quarantine unless otherwise specified in the certificate referred to in paragraph 1.
(3) The transport of animals shall be carried out only by appropriate means of transport.
Animal species
(1) Exhibitions, markets, shows or competitions of animals or animal setups for other purposes (hereinafter referred to as animal setups) may be organised only on the basis of the authorisation of the veterinary authority.
(2) When animals are removed, the organizer is obliged
(a) comply with the animal health conditions laid down for the performance of the authorisation;
(b) establish appropriate conditions for the reception and investigation and, where appropriate, the treatment of animals.
Diseases and other animal diseases
(1) Those who come into contact with animals and, where appropriate, animal products shall immediately notify the veterinary care authority or ensure that they are aware of the suspicion of an animal disease or other mass disease and, where possible, take the necessary measures to prevent the spread of the disease or other animal diseases.
(2) The breeder is required to carry out further urgent measures in accordance with the veterinary care requirements and if there is a suspicion of a very dangerous animal disease, also in accordance with the contingency plan for protection and control measures.
(3) Veterinary care authority
(a) on the basis of the result of the preliminary examination of the animals, inform its superior authority, the competent district authority and the competent police authority of the occurrence of a very dangerous or dangerous disease; on the occurrence of diseases communicable from animals to humans as well as the competent health service authority;
(b) take the necessary measures to combat and prevent the spread of disease or other animal diseases.
(4) Where the legal or natural person referred to in Article 3a (1) finds that: (c) in the course of professional veterinary activities or if they are otherwise suspected of being infected or of other animal diseases, they shall immediately:
(a) notify the suspected veterinary care authority,
(b) carry out the necessary preliminary examinations and measures to combat and prevent the spread of disease or other animal mass diseases.
Health of animal products
(1) Those producing, processing, treating, storing and transporting animal products are obliged to:
(a) ensure that only animal products complying with the conditions laid down by this Act, implementing provisions and specific provisions enter into circulation for the normal purpose, (4) in particular to avoid their being affected by such factors which adversely affect their health;
(b) comply
1. the measures provided for to ensure the health of animal products (hereinafter referred to as "animal health measures"),
2. requirements for the care of production hygiene and the health of animal products in accordance with the conditions laid down in veterinary provisions and specific provisions, 4)
(c) require the competent veterinary authority to issue a certificate of eligibility for the production, processing, treatment, storage and transport of animal products before commencing operations.
(2) Animal products suspected of the presence of foreign substances in quantities considered to be harmful to human or animal health or suspected for any other reason may be further processed or used for animal feeding only on the basis of the authorisation of the veterinary care authority and under the conditions laid down therein.
(1) Animals for slaughter whose meat and organs are intended for internal market or for foreign trade are subject to a compulsory veterinary examination before and at the time of slaughter, their meat and organs after slaughter (inspection of slaughter animals and meat); the milk is subject to a compulsory veterinary examination during production and processing.
(2) Animal products subject to veterinary examination may be used only in accordance with the results of that examination.
(1) The slaughter of the animals referred to in Article 11 (1) shall be carried out at the slaughterhouse or, where appropriate, at slaughter sites designated for that purpose.
(2) Diseased or suspected animals for slaughter are slaughtered in the slaughterhouse or in the sanitary department of the slaughterhouse or in other places designated for that purpose.
Transport of animal products
The transport of animal products shall be carried out only by appropriate means of transport, normally on the basis of a veterinary certificate.
Health of feed
(1) Those who manufacture, process, process, store, transport, put into circulation or use feed are obliged to:
(a) ensure that:
1. Their effect on the health of agents causing adverse effects on their health has been excluded,
2. meet the needs of animals of the species and category concerned,
(b) comply
1. the measures provided for to ensure the health of feed;
2. health requirements for feed.
(2) Feed which has been treated with substances harmful to animal health or human health or otherwise adversely affecting animal products or to which such substances have been added in accordance with an approved technological procedure may be used for feeding only after the withdrawal period has expired and, where appropriate, under the conditions laid down by the veterinary authority.
(3) For the verification, manufacture, import and putting into circulation of feed not yet in use, the approval of the veterinary authority with regard to its health must be sought.
Import, transit and export of animals, animal products and feed
(1) The import, transit and export of animals, animal products and feed as well as of articles which may carry disease agents are permitted, as a general rule, only on the basis of veterinary authorisation (1) and veterinary certificate.
(2) Imported, accompanying and exported animals, animal products and feed, as well as articles which may be borne by disease agents, are subject to veterinary checks on entry into the territory of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and on exit abroad (border veterinary inspection).
(3) In carrying out their duties, customs authorities and police authorities shall also supervise compliance with the conditions referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2.
(4) Imported, accompanying and exported animals, animal products and feed as well as articles which may carry disease agents cannot be released by the customs authorities for further transport before border veterinary checks are carried out.
(5) Imported animals, animal products and feed, as well as articles which may bear agents of diseases subject to border veterinary control, are also subject to veterinary checks at the place of destination.
(1) Carriers, mail, other organisations and citizens are required to allow border veterinary checks to be carried out in means of transport, operating warehouses and other places where imported, accompanied or exported animals, animal products and feed are present, as well as objects which may be borne by disease agents.
(2) The veterinary authority is not liable for damage caused by the necessary delays in means of transport as a result of border veterinary checks.
Veterinary rendering
Veterinary rendering includes:
(a) the collection, collection and processing and, where appropriate, the disposal of dead, premature, dead-born or dead-born animals and of inedible animal products and, where appropriate, animal products excluded from the normal use;
(b) disinfection, disinsectisation, extermination and disodorisation,
(c) the capture and culling of stray animals in the public interest and, where appropriate, the quarantine location;
(d) the veterinary procedure.
Those who keep animals, produce, process, process, store or transport animal products shall be obliged to store the bodies of the animals and animal products referred to in Article 19 (a) (hereinafter referred to as "waste of animal origin '), taking into account their nature and the circumstances of their formation, to sort, to treat and store safely in appropriate premises in their transport or processing.
(1) Waste of animal origin must be used economically for the appropriate purpose or disposed of,
(a) by the person referred to in Paragraph 20; or
(b) by legal or natural persons on the basis of the authorisation of the competent veterinary care authority (the rendering undertaking).
(2) The competent veterinary authority shall grant authorisation to the legal or natural person referred to in paragraph 1 (b) if:
(a) professional veterinary activities will be carried out by a competent person (Section 25);
(b) it has the necessary equipment and equipment at its disposal;
(c) it has the conditions to comply with the necessary anti-cancer and sanitary measures.
The authorisation may be amended or withdrawn by the competent veterinary authority if the conditions for granting it have changed or are not necessary.
(3) The rendering plant shall ensure the timely collection of waste of animal origin in the designated district, in return for payment, so as to avoid harmful effects on the environment.
(4) In the case referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1, the person referred to in paragraph 20 shall immediately report the occurrence of waste of animal origin to the rendering undertaking.
Veterinary surveillance
(1) Veterinary surveillance is carried out
(a) the breeding and movement of animals;
(b) the production, processing, treatment, storage and transport of animal products and feedingstuffs;
(c) the collection, collection, collection, processing and disposal of animal confiscates and the performance of other tasks of veterinary rendering;
(d) for the sale of raw materials and foodstuffs of animal origin in markets and markets, for the sale of conditionally edible foods and for the sale of food of animal origin in shops and sales sections where meat, milk, fish, poultry, eggs or game sales are modified;
(e) on the import, transit and export of animals, animal products and feedingstuffs, as well as of articles which may bear disease agents;
(f) compliance with the ban on animal abuse;
(g) over the performance of the professional veterinary activities of the persons referred to in Article 3a (c);
(h) the production and protection of the environment against negative effects from animals within the meaning of Article 2 (1) (e) and the protection of food and raw materials of animal origin from contamination with foreign substances.
(2) Veterinary supervision of the production and processing of meat and milk is carried out on a continuous basis.
(3) Veterinary care authorities
(a) ensure that legal and natural persons comply with the conditions and fulfil the obligations laid down in this law and in accordance with this law, or, where appropriate, the conditions and obligations laid down to ensure the health of animal products, whether or not on the basis of specific provisions, 3), 4)
(b) identify the causes of the deficiencies and the persons responsible for them;
(c) draw the attention of legal and natural persons to the shortcomings identified and the causes thereof and discuss with them the manner in which they are removed;
(d) where necessary and the nature of the deficiencies identified, impose binding guidelines on the manner and time limits for the correction of those deficiencies and their causes.
Exceptional veterinary measures
(1) Safeguard and control measures, animal health measures, animal health measures, animal health measures and veterinary protection measures for national territory (hereinafter referred to as "emergency veterinary measures") are to be ordered in the event of an outbreak or other animal mass disease, in the event of the detection of health defects in animal products or feedingstuffs and in the risk of the introduction into the territory of the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic of disease agents and of other animal diseases, or, where appropriate, of animal health products and feed from abroad.
(2) Exceptional veterinary measures are in particular:
(a) the establishment of an outbreak of the disease and of the protection zone and their warning marking and, where appropriate, surveillance;
(b) a separate location (isolation) regulation or, where appropriate, the slaughter or culling of animals;
(c) the suspension of the use of animal products or feed until completion of the necessary examination, the separate storage (storage) of animal products or feed,
(d) the laying down of specific conditions of operation or, where appropriate, its restriction or cessation;
(e) a prohibition on the production, processing or putting into circulation of animal products or feedingstuffs which are harmful, laying down specific conditions for their production and processing or a regulation on their destruction;
(f) restrictions, prohibitions or special conditions for the import, transit and export of animals, animal products and feedingstuffs, as well as articles which may bear disease agents;
(g) the order for the return of imported or released animals, animal products or feed, or objects, which may bear disease agents,
(h) restrictions or prohibitions on the movement and free movement of animals, restrictions or prohibitions on the taking of animals, hunting and catching animals;
(i) restrictions or prohibitions on the transport of animal products or feed;
(j) restrictions or prohibitions on grazing, use of water and feed sources;
(k) restriction or prohibition of breeding;
(l) the Regulation on the cleansing, restriction or prohibition of the use or destruction of equipment and articles which may bear disease agents;
(m) the Regulation on specific treatment of manure, urinals and waste water;
(n) laying down specific conditions for the disposal of confiscates of animal origin;
(o) the regulation on the closure of a market or market,
(p) the order of disposal and, where appropriate, the restriction of the occurrence of sources of animal diseases with natural outbreaks;
(r) restrictions on the freedom of movement of persons and their collection, restriction or prohibition of border traffic of persons;
(s) regulations governing the treatment of sanitary and sanitary operations or of technological and working procedures, disinfection, disinsecting and exerting.
(3) Where the circumstances of a particular case so justify, other measures corresponding to the requirements of veterinary care and knowledge of veterinary science may also be laid down.
Obligatory assessment
(1) A binding opinion of the veterinary authority must be sought
(a) in the territorial, building and approval proceedings, where, in relation to buildings and equipment intended for:
1. for animals or for the production, processing, treatment and storage of animal products and feed;
3. to store, further process and dispose of confiscates of animal origin,
(b) proposals
1. type materials and repeated construction projects referred to in (a);
2. the introduction of new machinery, technological equipment, packaging, technological and working practices used in animal husbandry and transport, the production, processing, treatment, storage and transport of animal products and feed, and the disposal and further processing of animal confiscates,
3. technical standards where they concern animals, animal products, feedingstuffs, veterinary medicinal products, preparations and needs.
(2) In the cases referred to in paragraph 1 (a) and (b) (1) and (3), a binding opinion is an opinion for the authorities to which decisions are based under the specific rules. These authorities cannot decide contrary to a binding assessment. In other cases, a binding opinion is a separate administrative decision.
Veterinary staff
(1) Professional activities in the performance of veterinary care tasks may only be carried out by veterinary staff:
(a) graduates of veterinary universities (veterinary surgeons);
(b) graduates of secondary veterinary vocational schools or graduates of post-graduate veterinary studies,
(c) other persons who have acquired competence to carry out certain professional activities necessary for the performance of veterinary care tasks by completing an appropriate study.
(2) Specialisation of veterinary practitioners and other forms of inservice training of veterinary staff are provided by the institutes for inservice training of veterinary surgeons.
Staff of veterinary authorities shall be entitled to:
(a) to enter the premises, operating parts of the premises and facilities of breeders, legal and natural persons, and legal and natural persons, who produce, process, process, store, transport and put into circulation feed and veterinary medicinal products, and, where appropriate, in the case of border inspection personnel, to the designated places of customs and customs offices and to carry out the necessary operations and investigations;
(b) require the breeders and persons referred to in (a) the necessary documents, information and explanations as well as free of charge material, personal and other necessary assistance;
(c) take samples in the quantities and extent necessary for examination and assessment; no refund shall be granted for the samples taken, except for samples taken on the sale of animal products under the special legislate.4) For these samples, compensation shall be granted to the checked person at the price at which the controlled person sells the product or foodstuff. No refund shall be granted if the product or foodstuff does not meet the requirements laid down in the specific regulation.4)
Fines for organisations
(1) Organizaci2a) which
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Regulation Information
| Citation | Act No. 87 / 1987 Coll., on Veterinary Care |
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| Regulation Type | - |
| Author | - |
| Collection | Code of Laws |
| Date of Promulgation | 17.11.1987 |
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| Effective from | 01.01.1988 |
| Effective until | - |
| Status | Valid |
The regulation text is for informational purposes only.
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