Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/594 of 16 March 2023 laying down special disease control measures for African swine fever and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/605 (Text with EEA relevance)

(a) there must be no direct or indirect contact between the kept porcine animals in the establishment and at least: (i) other kept porcine animals from other establishments, except for kept porcine animals that are allowed to be moved into the establishment by an operator and, where required by this Regulation, are authorised for such movement by the competent authority; (ii) wild porcine animals;

(b) appropriate hygienic measures, such as a change of clothes and footwear on entering and leaving the premises where porcine animals are kept;

(c) washing and disinfection of hands and disinfection of footwear at the entrance to the premises where porcine animals are kept;

(d) the absence of any contact with kept porcine animals for a period of at least 48 hours from the time of ending of any hunting activity related to wild porcine animals or any other contact with wild porcine animals;

(e) a prohibition on unauthorised persons or means of transport entering the establishment, including the premises and buildings, where porcine animals are kept;

(f) adequate record-keeping of persons and means of transport accessing the establishment where the porcine animals are kept;

(g) the premises and buildings of the establishment where porcine animals are kept must: (i) be built in such a way that no other animals that could transmit African swine fever virus can enter the premises and buildings or have contact with the kept porcine animals or their feed and bedding material. In particular the structure and buildings of the establishment must ensure that kept porcine animals do not have any contacts with wild porcine animals; (ii) allow for the washing and disinfection of hands; (iii) where appropriate, allow for the cleaning and disinfection of the premises and buildings, except for land near the buildings of the establishment where porcine animals are kept outdoors where such cleaning and disinfection would not be feasible; (iv) have appropriate changing facilities for footwear and clothes at the entrance to the premises and buildings where porcine animals are kept; (v) have appropriate protection from insects and ticks, if required by the competent authority of the Member State concerned on the basis of a risk assessment tailored to the specific epidemiological situation of African swine fever in that Member State.

(h) stock-proof fencing of at least the premises where the porcine animals are kept and buildings where feed and bedding are kept, in order to ensure that kept porcine animals, and their feed and bedding do not have any contact with unauthorised persons and, where relevant, with other porcine animals;

(i) a biosecurity plan approved by the competent authority of the Member State concerned taking account of the profile of the establishment and national legislation must be in place; where appropriate, that biosecurity plan must include at least: (i) the establishment of the ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ areas for personnel appropriate to the typology of the establishment, such as changing rooms, showers, a dining room, etc.; (ii) the setting up and the review, when applicable, of the logistical arrangements for the entry of new kept porcine animals into the establishment; (iii) the procedures for the cleaning and disinfection of the facilities, transport, equipment and personnel hygiene; (iv) rules on food for personnel on site and a prohibition on the keeping of porcine animals by the personnel, where relevant and if applicable on the basis of national legislation of the Member State concerned; (v) a dedicated recurrent awareness programme for personnel on the establishment; (vi) the setting up and the review, when applicable, of logistical arrangements in order to ensure a proper separation between different epidemiological units and to avoid porcine animals being in contact, either directly or indirectly, with animal by-products and other units on the establishment; (vii) the procedures and instructions for the enforcement of biosecurity requirements during the construction or repair of the premises or buildings; (viii) internal audits or self-evaluation for enforcing the biosecurity measures; (ix) assessment of specific biosecurity risks and procedures for the application of relevant risk-mitigating measures related to establishments where porcine animals are kept temporally or permanently outdoors.

ANNEX IV

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR NATIONAL ACTION PLANS FOR WILD PORCINE ANIMALS IN ORDER TO AVOID THE SPREAD OF AFRICAN SWINE FEVER IN THE UNION

(as referred to in Article 56)

National action plans for wild porcine animals in order to avoid the spread of African swine fever in the Union shall include at least the following:

(a) the strategic objectives and priorities of the national action plan;

(b) the scope of the plan, including the territory covered by the national action plan;

(c) a description of the scientific data guiding the measures set out in the national action plan, where relevant, or reference to the Union’s guidelines on African swine fever as agreed with the Member States at the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (⁵);

(d) a description of the roles and functions of the relevant institutions and stakeholders;

(e) estimates of the size of the population of wild porcine animals within the Member State or regions thereof and a description of the estimation method;

(f) a description of hunting management within the Member State, including an overview of the hunting grounds, hunting associations, hunting seasons, specific hunting methods and tools;

(g) a description of qualitative and / or quantitative annual, intermediate and long-term targets and the means for an appropriate control and, if necessary, reduction of the population of wild porcine animals, including targets for annual hunting bags, where relevant;

(h) a description or links to national biosecurity requirements related to the hunting of wild porcine animals;

(i) a description and links to relevant Union or national biosecurity measures for establishments of kept porcine animals aimed at the protection of such animals from wild porcine animals;

(j) implementation arrangements, including a timetable for different measures;

(k) a communication strategy for hunters, a description of targeted awareness and training campaigns concerning African swine fever and related links to such campaigns for hunters to prevent the introduction and dissemination of that disease by hunters;

(l) joint programmes of cooperation between the agriculture and environmental sectors ensuring sustainable hunting management, an implementation of a ban on supplementary feeding and agricultural practices aimed at facilitating the prevention, control and eradication of African swine fever, where relevant;

(m) a description of cross-border cooperation with other Member States and third countries, where relevant, in relation to the management of wild porcine animals;

(n) a description of compulsory continuous surveillance by means of the testing of dead wild porcine animals with pathogen identification tests for African swine fever in the whole territory of the Member State;

(o) an assessment of possible significant negative effects of hunting activities on species and habitats protected under relevant Union environmental rules, including nature protection requirements, laid down in Directives 2009/147/EC and 92/43/EEC and the description of prevention and mitigation measures reducing the negative impact on the environment, where necessary.