Part III, Article 23 · Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/131

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Article 23Specific prevention and risk-mitigation measures regarding pet birds moving into a Member State from a third country or territory#

1.For the purposes of the non-commercial movements into the Union, pet birds shall comply, as required by Article 250(2), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2016/429, with the following prevention and risk-mitigation measures:

(a)they come from a third country or territory which is a member of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH); and

(b)it can be established from the animal health certificate referred to in Article 26(1) of this Regulation that they fulfil one of the following sets of conditions:

(i)they originate from a third country or territory listed in the first column of the table set out in Part 1 of Annexes V, XIV or XIX to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404, and they have undergone isolation under official supervision for a period of at least 30 days prior to the date of the non-commercial movement from the third country or territory; or

(ii)within the period of six months prior to the date of dispatch to the Union and not later than 60 days prior to the date of dispatch to the Union, they received a complete primary course of vaccination, and where applicable were revaccinated, in accordance with manufacturers’ instructions with a licensed vaccine against avian influenza of the H5 and H7 subtypes, which must not have been a live–attenuated vaccine, and it must have been administered by an authorised veterinarian or an official veterinarian of the third country or territory of dispatch; or

(iii)in the third country or territory of dispatch, they were:

—kept in isolation under the supervision of an authorised veterinarian or an official veterinarian for a period of at least 14 days prior to the date of the non-commercial movement from that third country or territory; and

—subjected to an avian influenza H5 and H7 antigen or genome detection test carried out with negative results on a sample taken by an authorised veterinarian or an official veterinarian not earlier than the seventh day of isolation; and

(c)it can be established from the animal health certificate referred to in Article 26(1) of this Regulation that:

(i)they have been subjected within a period of 48 hours of or on the last working day prior to the date of the non-commercial movement from the third country or territory to a clinical inspection by an authorised veterinarian or an official veterinarian of the third country or territory of dispatch and were found to be free of any obvious signs of disease and are fit for the non-commercial movement; and

(ii)during the period between the clinical inspection referred to in point (i) and the departure from the third country or territory of dispatch, they have not been in contact with any other birds.

2.The documentation accompanying the pet birds demonstrates that the tests performed and the vaccines administered referred to in paragraph 1, points (b)(ii) and (iii), shall meet the requirements of the relevant parts of the chapter concerning avian influenza in the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).