Terrestrial Animal Health Code

Terrestrial Animal Health Code
(2016)

Contents

Volume I

General provisions

	Foreword
	User's guide
	Glossary
SECTION 1.	Animal disease diagnosis, surveillance and notification
Chapter 1.1.	Notification of diseases, infections and infestations, and provision of epidemiological information
Chapter 1.2.	Criteria for the inclusion of diseases, infections and infestations in the OIE list
Chapter 1.3.	Diseases, infections and infestations listed by the OIE
Chapter 1.4.	Animal health surveillance
Chapter 1.5.	Surveillance for arthropod vectors of animal diseases
Chapter 1.6.	Procedures for self declaration and for official recognition by the OIE
SECTION 2.	Risk analysis
Chapter 2.1.	Import risk analysis
SECTION 3.	Quality of Veterinary Services
Chapter 3.1.	Veterinary Services
Chapter 3.2.	Evaluation of Veterinary Services
Chapter 3.3.	Communication
Chapter 3.4.	Veterinary legislation
SECTION 4.	General recommendations: Disease prevention and control
Chapter 4.1.	General principles on identification and traceability of live animals
Chapter 4.2.	Design and implementation of identification systems to achieve animal traceability
Chapter 4.3.	Zoning and compartmentalisation
Chapter 4.4.	Application of compartmentalisation
Chapter 4.5.	General hygiene in semen collection and processing centres
Chapter 4.6.	Collection and processing of bovine, small ruminant and porcine semen
Chapter 4.7.	Collection and processing of in vivo derived embryos from livestock and equids
Chapter 4.8.	Collection and processing of in vitro produced embryos/oocytes from livestock and horses
Chapter 4.9.	Collection and processing of micromanipulated embryos/oocytes from livestock and horses
Chapter 4.10.	Collection and processing of laboratory rodent and rabbit embryos/ova
Chapter 4.11.	Somatic cell nuclear transfer in production livestock and horses
Chapter 4.12.	Disposal of dead animals
Chapter 4.13.	General recommendations on disinfection and disinsection
Chapter 4.14.	Official health control of bee diseases
Chapter 4.15.	Hygiene precautions, identification, blood sampling and vaccination
Chapter 4.16.	High health status horse subpopulation
SECTION 5.	Trade measures, import/export procedures and veterinary certification
Chapter 5.1.	General obligations related to certification
Chapter 5.2.	Certification procedures
Chapter 5.3.	OIE procedures relevant to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization
Chapter 5.4.	Animal health measures applicable before and at departure
Chapter 5.5.	Animal health measures applicable during transit from the place of departure in the exporting country to the place of arrival in the importing country
Chapter 5.6.	Border posts and quarantine stations in the importing country
Chapter 5.7.	Animal health measures applicable on arrival
Chapter 5.8.	International transfer and laboratory containment of animal pathogens
Chapter 5.9.	Quarantine measures applicable to non-human primates
Chapter 5.10.	Model veterinary certificates for international trade in live animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin
Chapter 5.11.	Model veterinary certificate for international movement of dogs, cats and ferrets originating from countries considered infected with rabies
Chapter 5.12.	Model passport for international movement of competition horses
Chapter 5.13.	Model veterinary certificate for international trade in laboratory animals
SECTION 6.	Veterinary public health
Chapter 6.1.	The role of the Veterinary Services in food safety
Chapter 6.2.	Control of biological hazards of animal health and public health importance through ante- and post-mortem meat inspection
Chapter 6.3.	The control of hazards of animal health and public health importance in animal feed
Chapter 6.4.	Biosecurity procedures in poultry production
Chapter 6.5.	Prevention, detection and control of Salmonella in poultry
Chapter 6.6.	Introduction to the recommendations for controlling antimicrobial resistance
Chapter 6.7.	Harmonisation of national antimicrobial resistance surveillance and monitoring programmes
Chapter 6.8.	Monitoring of the quantities and usage patterns of antimicrobial agents used in food-producing animals
Chapter 6.9.	Responsible and prudent use of antimicrobial agents in veterinary medicine
Chapter 6.10.	Risk analysis for antimicrobial resistance arising from the use of antimicrobial agents in animals
Chapter 6.11.	Zoonoses transmissible from non-human primates
SECTION 7.	Animal welfare
Chapter 7.1.	Introduction to the recommendations for animal welfare
Chapter 7.2.	Transport of animals by sea
Chapter 7.3.	Transport of animals by land
Chapter 7.4.	Transport of animals by air
Chapter 7.5.	Slaughter of animals
Chapter 7.6.	Killing of animals for disease control purposes
Chapter 7.7.	Stray dog population control
Chapter 7.8.	Use of animals in research and education
Chapter 7.9.	Animal welfare and beef cattle production systems
Chapter 7.10.	Animal welfare and broiler chicken production systems
Chapter 7.11.	Animal welfare and dairy cattle production systems
Chapter 7.12.	Welfare of working equids

Volume II

Recommendations applicable to OIE Listed diseases and other diseases of importance to international trade

SECTION 8.	Multiple species
Chapter 8.1.	Anthrax
Chapter 8.2.	Infection with Aujeszky's disease virus
Chapter 8.3.	Infection with bluetongue virus
Chapter 8.4.	Infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis
Chapter 8.5.	Infection with Echinococcus granulosus
Chapter 8.6.	Infection with Echinococcus multilocularis
Chapter 8.7.	Infection with epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus
Chapter 8.8.	Infection with foot and mouth disease virus
Chapter 8.9.	Heartwater
Chapter 8.10.	Japanese encephalitis
Chapter 8.11.	New world screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) and Old world screwworm (Chrysomya bezziana)
Chapter 8.12.	Paratuberculosis
Chapter 8.13.	Infection with rabies virus
Chapter 8.14.	Infection with Rift Valley fever virus
Chapter 8.15.	Infection with rinderpest virus
Chapter 8.16.	Infection with Trichinella spp.
Chapter 8.17.	Tularemia
Chapter 8.18.	West Nile fever
SECTION 9.	Apidae
Chapter 9.1.	Infestation of honey bees with Acarapis woodi
Chapter 9.2.	Infection of honey bees with Paenibacillus larvae (American foulbrood)
Chapter 9.3.	Infection of honey bees with Melissococcus plutonius (European foulbrood)
Chapter 9.4.	Infestation with Aethina tumida (Small hive beetle)
Chapter 9.5.	Infestation of honey bees with Tropilaelaps spp.
Chapter 9.6.	Infestation of honey bees with Varroa spp. (Varroosis)
SECTION 10.	Aves
Chapter 10.1.	Avian chlamydiosis
Chapter 10.2.	Avian infectious bronchitis
Chapter 10.3.	Avian infectious laryngotracheitis
Chapter 10.4.	Infection with avian influenza viruses
Chapter 10.5.	Avian mycoplasmosis (Mycoplasma gallisepticum)
Chapter 10.6.	Duck virus hepatitis
Chapter 10.7.	Fowl typhoid and pullorum disease
Chapter 10.8.	Infectious bursal disease (Gumboro disease)
Chapter 10.9.	Infection with Newcastle disease virus
SECTION 11.	Bovidae
Chapter 11.1.	Bovine anaplasmosis
Chapter 11.2.	Bovine babesiosis
Chapter 11.3.	Bovine genital campylobacteriosis
Chapter 11.4.	Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Chapter 11.5.	Bovine tuberculosis
Chapter 11.6.	Bovine tuberculosis of farmed cervidae
Chapter 11.7.	Infection with Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC (Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia)
Chapter 11.8.	Enzootic bovine leukosis
Chapter 11.9.	Haemorrhagic septicaemia (Pasteurella multocida serotypes 6:b and 6:e)
Chapter 11.10.	Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis/ infectious pustular vulvovaginitis
Chapter 11.11.	Lumpy skin disease (caused by group III virus, type Neethling)
Chapter 11.12.	Theileriosis
Chapter 11.13.	Trichomonosis
SECTION 12.	Equidae
Chapter 12.1.	Infection with African horse sickness virus
Chapter 12.2.	Contagious equine metritis
Chapter 12.3.	Dourine
Chapter 12.4.	Equine encephalomyelitis (Eastern and Western)
Chapter 12.5.	Equine infectious anaemia
Chapter 12.6.	Infection with equine influenza virus
Chapter 12.7.	Equine piroplasmosis
Chapter 12.8.	Infection with equid herpesvirus-1 (Equine rhinopneumonitis)
Chapter 12.9.	Infection with equine arteritis virus
Chapter 12.10.	Glanders
Chapter 12.11.	Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
SECTION 13.	Leporidae
Chapter 13.1.	Myxomatosis
Chapter 13.2.	Rabbit haemorrhagic disease
SECTION 14.	Caprinae
Chapter 14.1.	Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
Chapter 14.2.	Contagious agalactia
Chapter 14.3.	Contagious caprine pleuropneumonia
Chapter 14.4.	Infection with Chlamydophila abortus (Enzootic abortion of ewes, ovine chlamydiosis)
Chapter 14.5.	Maedi-visna
Chapter 14.6.	Ovine epididymitis (Brucella ovis)
Chapter 14.7.	Infection with peste des petits ruminants virus
Chapter 14.8.	Scrapie
Chapter 14.9.	Sheep pox and goat pox
SECTION 15.	Suidae
Chapter 15.1.	African swine fever
Chapter 15.2.	Infection with classical swine fever virus
Chapter 15.3.	Infection with Taenia solium (Porcine cysticercois)
Chapter 15.4.	Transmissible gastroenteritis

Index