PART 2The vaccination programme

Factors informing a decision to permit suppressive vaccination or protective vaccination9

1

The Secretary of State shall take into account the following factors in deciding whether to permit suppressive vaccination or protective vaccination—

a

the risk of an outbreak of disease—

i

in the United Kingdom becoming widespread in any part of the country,

ii

spreading to England with imported susceptible animals, carcases or other things liable to spread disease,

iii

spreading from England with exported susceptible animals, carcases or other things liable to spread disease, or

iv

spreading to or from England because of the prevailing meteorological conditions;

b

any threat from disease to animals in—

i

a laboratory, zoo, wildlife park or other premises where susceptible animals are kept principally for the purposes of display and education of the public, or an enclosed area principally used for shooting,

ii

premises not falling within (a) of a body, institute or centre which—

aa

keeps susceptible animals only for the purposes of conservation, display and education of the public, or scientific research or breeding of such animals for research, and

bb

is approved in relation to those animals under regulation 9 of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England) Regulations 2005,

iii

other premises where susceptible animals are kept for scientific purposes or purposes related to conservation of species or farm animal genetic resources;

c

the criteria in Annex X of Council Directive 2003/85/EC on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC14F1 with the reference to “Member States” in paragraph 3.1 in Annex X being read as a reference to the Secretary of State;

d

other means of preventing the spread of disease available to her;

e

in the case of suppressive vaccination, whether such vaccination is necessary urgently to prevent the spread of disease from premises or a geographical area by reducing the quantity of circulating disease virus there; and

f

in the case of protective vaccination—

i

whether such vaccination in the proposed vaccination zone will protect susceptible animals in that zone against airborne spread or spread through fomites of the disease virus, and

ii

the effect of the measures which would apply in the vaccination zone and vaccination surveillance zone on persons and animals there.

2

Where, having taken those factors into account, the Secretary of State considers that permitting suppressive vaccination or protective vaccination is the most appropriate means of preventing the spread of disease, she shall undertake a vaccination programme.

3

If the Secretary of State decides to undertake a vaccination programme she shall grant a licence permitting suppressive vaccination or protective vaccination.