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DIRECTIVE NO 64/432/EEC ON VETERINARY HEALTH INSPECTION QUESTIONS IN INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE IN BOVINE ANIMALS AND SWINE SHALL BE APPLIED ACCOUNT BEING TAKEN OF THE FOLLOWING PROVISIONS :

1 . UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1977 , THE NEW MEMBER STATES ARE AUTHORIZED TO RETAIN , IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE GENERAL RULES OF THE EEC TREATY , THEIR NATIONAL RULES ON IMPORTS OF BOVINE ANIMALS AND SWINE FOR BREEDING , STORE AND SLAUGHTER WITH THE EXCEPTION , IN THE CASE OF DENMARK , OF SLAUGHTER CATTLE .

ADJUSTMENTS WILL BE SOUGHT , WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THOSE NATIONAL RULES , TO ENSURE THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF TRADE ; TO THIS END , THOSE RULES WILL BE EXAMINED BY THE STANDING VETERINARY COMMITTEE .

2 . UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1977 , THE MEMBER STATES INTO WHICH CATTLE ARE IMPORTED SHALL GRANT TO THE MEMBER STATES FROM WHICH CATTLE ARE EXPORTED THE DEROGATION PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 7 ( 1 ) ( A ) ( A ) OF THE DIRECTIVE .

3 . UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1977 , THE NEW MEMBER STATES ARE AUTHORIZED TO RETAIN THE METHODS APPLIED IN THEIR TERRITORY FOR DECLARING A HERD OF CATTLE OFFICIALLY FREE OF TUBERCULOSIS OR BRUCELLOSIS WITHIN THE MEANING OF ARTICLE 2 OF THE DIRECTIVE , SUBJECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIRECTIVE RELATING TO THE PRESENCE OF ANIMALS VACCINATED AGAINST BRUCELLOSIS . THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TESTS LAID DOWN FOR ANIMALS TRADED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY , SUBJECT TO PARAGRAPHS 4 AND 6 .

4 . UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1977 , EXPORTS OF CATTLE FROM IRELAND TO THE UNITED KINGDOM MAY BE CARRIED OUT :

( A ) BY WAY OF DEROGATION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIRECTIVE RELATING TO BRUCELLOSIS ; HOWEVER , THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE TEST LAID DOWN FOR ANIMALS TRADED WITHIN THE COMMUNITY SHALL CONTINUE TO APPLY TO EXPORTS OF UNCASTRATED CATTLE ;

( B ) BY WAY OF DEROGATION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIRECTIVE RELATING TO TUBERCULOSIS , PROVIDED THAT , AT THE TIME OF EXPORT , A DECLARATION IS MADE CERTIFYING THAT THE EXPORTED ANIMAL COMES FROM A HERD DECLARED OFFICIALLY FREE OF TUBERCULOSIS ACCORDING TO THE METHODS IN FORCE IN IRELAND ;

( C ) BY WAY OF DEROGATION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF THE DIRECTIVE RELATING TO THE OBLIGATION TO SEPARATE BREEDING AND STORE CATTLE ON THE ONE HAND AND SLAUGHTER CATTLE ON THE OTHER .

5 . UNTIL 31 DECEMBER 1975 , DENMARK IS AUTHORIZED TO USE " ALTTUBERCULIN " BY WAY OF DEROGATION FROM THE PROVISIONS IN ANNEX B TO THE DIRECTIVE .

6 . UNTIL THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE COMMUNITY PROVISIONS CONCERNING TRADE WITHIN THE MEMBER STATES , IN RESPECT OF THE MATTERS GOVERNED BY THE DIRECTIVE , IRELAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM ARE AUTHORIZED TO RETAIN THEIR NATIONAL RULES GOVERNING TRADE BETWEEN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND .

THE MEMBER STATES CONCERNED MAY TAKE APPROPRIATE MEASURES IN ORDER TO LIMIT THIS DEROGATION EXCLUSIVELY TO THE TRADE REFERRED TO ABOVE .