This Government Decision approves the requirements for monitoring zoonoses, zoonotic agents, and zoonotic foodborne disease outbreaks, including the list of targeted agents and international reporting obligations. The regulation establishes a surveillance framework to identify, evaluate, and trace pathogens across animal populations, animal feed, and animal-origin food products. It assigns duties to competent state authorities to conduct epidemiological surveillance, manage sampling, and execute risk assessments throughout the food and feed supply chains. Annex 1 details the operational rules for executing monitoring plans, including target human exposure groups, sampling protocols, laboratory testing methods, and tracking antimicrobial resistance. Competent bodies must conduct surveillance and trace disease vectors during animal rearing, slaughtering, processing, storage, and distribution. Annex 2 provides the mandatory list of zoonoses and zoonotic agents subject to systematic monitoring, categorized by epidemiological priority. In cases of foodborne outbreaks or elevated pathogen prevalence, the regulation mandates immediate epidemiological investigations, cross-sectoral information sharing between veterinary and public health authorities, and corrective containment measures. The document sets the specific reporting requirements, schedules, and standardized data formats for transmitting annual surveillance findings and outbreak statistics to international bodies, specifically the European Commission and the World Organisation for Animal Health. The decision concludes with administrative provisions on institutional coordination, compliance verification, and enforcement.
أرمينيا · 2014-09-04