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Animal Health in beef
sector/Update on IBR
Presentation to Beef Roundtable
16th December 2015
David Graham
EU Legislation
A Member State which has a compulsory national control programme
(Article 9) or which has freedom (Article 10) may submit it for approval/recognition
Art 9/10: MS granted the additional guarantees which may be required in
intra-Community trade (not exceeding those which the MS implements nationally).
EU Legislation
Animal movements from Art 10 status OR:
Come from holding free of clinical/pathological IBR for 12m
Isolation facility approved by competent authority for 30 days
All animals free from clinical IBR
All animals negative blood test taken at least 21d post entry
(4 Derogations)
Annex I 2015/250/EU
Annex II, 2015/250/EU
2004/558/EC
Impact of Article 9 status (continental Europe)
http://www.bordbia.ie/industry/farmers/pricetracking/cattle/pages/livecattleexports.aspx
2004/558/EC BHV-1-free holding-acquisition
gE/whole virus (vacc/unvacc) antibody tests
All animals over 9 months used/intended for breeding
At least two blood samples, 5-7m apart
NEGATIVE
Animal Health Law
• (36) Such rules should apply
as regards listed diseases
……for which measures are
needed to prevent them
from spreading to parts of
the Union that are officially
free or that have
eradication programmes ….
such as infectious bovine
rhinotracheitis.
Foodwise 2025
AHI TWG Study Visit
• Study visit
– Belgium, Netherlands
• Focussed on:
– Development & structure
• drivers
• databases
• Industry promotion/communications
– Funding sources, uses and
programme and disease costs
– Vaccination
– Sampling, diagnostics and logistics
Programme Objectives
• To develop tools to assist
farmers and their vets to
control losses due to liver fluke
and pneumonia through
capture, analysis and reporting
of abattoir data
• To contribute to the
development by ICBF of
economic breeding indices
that incorporate health and
disease data
Thank you for your attention