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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2007 No. 30

ANIMALS

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Specified Animal Pathogens Amendment (Scotland) Order 2007

  Made 30th January 2007 
  Coming into force 14th February 2007 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 1 and 88(2) and (4) of the Animal Health Act 1981[1], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and extent
     1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Specified Animal Pathogens Amendment (Scotland) Order 2007 and shall come into force on 14th February 2007.

    (2) This Order extends to Scotland only.

Amendment to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998
    
2. —(1) The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998[2] is amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this article.

    (2) For article 5(2)(a) (exceptions) substitute–

      " (a) permitted to be placed on the market under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006[3] or the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations Etc.) Regulations 1994[4];";

    (3) For article 5(2)(c) (exceptions) substitute–

      " (a) in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with regulation 8(2) (administration of the product) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2006.".

    (4) For the Schedule, substitute the Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Order.


ROSS FINNIE
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew's House, Edinburgh
30th January 2007



SCHEDULE
Article 2(4)


Schedule to be substituted for the Schedule to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998




    " SCHEDULE
    Articles 3 and 4


    Specified animal pathogens




    PART 1

    Pathogens the possession of which or the introduction of which into any animal must be licensed

    African horse sickness virus

    African swine fever virus

    Aujeszky's disease virus

    Avian influenza viruses which are–

      (a) uncharacterised; or

      (b) Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six week old chickens of greater than 1.2; or

      (c) Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin

    Babesia bovis, B. bigemina, B. caballi and B. equi

    Bacillus anthracis

    Bluetongue virus

    Bovine leukosis virus

    Brucella abortus

    Brucella melitensis

    Brucella ovis

    Brucella suis

    Burkholderia mallei

    Classical swine fever virus

    Cochliomyia hominivorax

    Ehrlichia ruminatum

    Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses

    Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosis

    Equine infectious anaemia virus

    Foot and mouth disease virus

    Hendra disease virus

    Histoplasma farciminosum

    Japanese encephalitis virus

    Lumpy skin disease virus

    Mycoplasma agalactiae

    Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae

    Mycroplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants

    Mycoplasma mycoides var Capri

    Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are–

      (a) uncharacterised; or

      (b) have an intercerebral pathogenicity index in one day old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (EID50) are administered to each bird in the test

    Nipah disease virus

    Peste des petits ruminants virus

    Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus

    Rift Valley Fever virus

    Rinderpest virus

    St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus

    Sheep and goat pox virus

    Swine vesicular disease virus

    Teschen disease virus

    Theileria annulata

    Theileria equi

    Theileria parva

    Trichinella spiralis

    Trypanosoma brucei, T. congolense, T. equiperdum, T. evansi, T. simiae and T. vivax

    Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus

    Vesicular stomatitis virus

    West Nile virus



    PART 2

    Pathogens the introdution of which into any animal must be licensed but possession of which need not be licensed

    The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits".



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


This Order amends the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998 ("the 1998 Order").

It updates references to veterinary medicines legislation (article 2(2) and (3)).

It also substitutes for the Schedule to the 1998 Order the Schedule to this Order (article 2(4)).

The effect of this Order is–

    (a) to extend the licensing requirements in Part 1 of the Schedule to Nipah disease virus, West Nile virus, St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus and Theileria equi;

    (b) to substitute "Hendra disease virus" for "Equine morbillivirus" and "Ehrlichia ruminatum" for "Cowdria ruminatum"; and

    (c) to make minor amendments to the terms Burkholdaria (Pseudomonas) mallei, Peste de petits ruminants virus and swine vesicular disease.

This Order was notified in draft to the European Commission in accordance with Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down a procedure for the provision of information in the field of technical standards and regulations (O.J. No. L 204 21.07.98, p.37), as amended by Directive 98/48/EC (O.J. No. L 217 05.08.98, p.18).


Notes:

[1] 1981 c.22; see section 86(1) for the definition of "the Ministers". The functions of the Ministers, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).back

[2] S.I. 1998/463.back

[3] S.I. 2006/2407.back

[4] S.I. 1994/3144.back



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