HEALTH CERTIFICATE

for re-entry into the Union of registered horses after temporary export to Mexico for less than 90 days to participate in specific cultural events in the Metropolitan area of Mexico-City

Certificate No: …

Specific event:

Presentations by the Théâtre équestre Zingaro in the Metropolitan area of Mexico-City, Mexico, in 2014

Third country of dispatch: Mexico

Responsible ministry: … (insert name of Ministry)

I. Identification of the horse

(a) No of identification document: …

(b) Validated by: …

(name of competent authority)

II. Origin of the horse

The horse is to be sent from: …

(place of consignment)

to: …

(place of destination)

by air: …

(flight number)

Name and address of consignor: …

Name and address of consignee: …

III. Health information

I, the undersigned, certify that the horse described above meets the following requirements:

(a) it comes from a country where the following diseases are compulsorily notifiable: African horse sickness, dourine, glanders, equine encephalomyelitis (of all types including Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis), equine infectious anaemia, vesicular stomatitis, rabies, anthrax;

(b) it has been examined today and shows no clinical signs of disease (1);

(c) it is not intended for slaughter under a national programme of infectious or contagious disease eradication;

(d) since its entry into the country of dispatch, it has been resident on holdings under veterinary supervision situated in the country or, in the case of official regionalisation according to Union legislation, in the part of the territory of the country listed in Annex I to Commission Decision 2004/211/EC (2), and was accommodated in separated stables without coming into contact with equidae of lower health status;

(e) it comes from the territory or, in the case of official regionalisation according to Union legislation, from a part of the territory of a third country in which:

(i) Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis has not occurred during the last two years;

(ii) dourine has not occurred during the last six months;

(iii) glanders has not occurred during the last six months;

(f) it does not come from the territory or from a part of the territory of a third country considered, in accordance with Union legislation, as infected with African horse sickness;

(g) it does not come from a holding which was subject to a prohibition order for animal health reasons nor had contact with equidae from a holding which was subject to prohibition order for animal health reasons which laid down the following conditions:

(i) if not all animals of species susceptible to one or more of the diseases referred to hereinafter were removed from the holding, the prohibition lasted for:

six months in the case of equine encephalomyelitis, beginning on the date on which the equidae suffering from the disease are slaughtered or removed from the premises,

a period required to carry out two Coggins tests three months apart giving negative results on samples taken from the animals remaining after infected animals have been slaughtered, in the case of equine infectious anaemia,

one month from the last recorded case, in the case of rabies,

15 days from the last recorded case, in the case of anthrax;

(ii) if all the animals of species susceptible to the disease have been slaughtered or removed from the holding, the period of prohibition shall be 30 days, or 15 days in the case of anthrax, beginning on the day on which the premises were cleaned and disinfected following the destruction or removal of the animals;

(h) it comes from a holding which

(i) either was not subject to a prohibition order for vesicular stomatitis and the animal had no contact with equidae from a holding which was subject to such prohibition order during the past six months (3); or

(ii) was free of vesicular stomatitis during the 30 days prior to dispatch and on which the animal was protected from vector insects during the 30 days prior to dispatch and where it underwent one of the following health tests carried out on a blood sample taken not earlier than 21 days after the commencement of the vector protection period:

a virus neutralisation test giving a negative result at a serum dilution of 1 in 12 (2),

a serological test carried out and giving a negative result in accordance with point B(2) of Chapter 2.1.19 of the Manual for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (3);

(i) to the best of my knowledge, it has not been in contact with equidae suffering from an infectious or contagious disease in the 15 days prior to this declaration.

IV. Residence and quarantine information:

(a) The horse entered the territory of Mexico on … (insert date).

(b) The horse arrived in the country of dispatch from a Member State of the European Union.

(c) As far as can be ascertained, the horse has not been continuously outside the European Union for 90 days or more, including the date of scheduled return in accordance with this certificate, and has not been outside the country referred to in point (a) above.

V. The horse will be sent in a vehicle cleaned and disinfected in advance with a disinfectant officially recognised in the country of dispatch and designed in a way that droppings, litter or fodder cannot escape during transportation.

VI. The certificate is valid for 10 days and until 15 April 2014.

Date

Place

Stamp and signature of the official veterinarian (1)

Name in block capitals and capacity.

(1) The colour of the stamp and the signature must be different from that of the printing.

(1) This certificate must be issued on the day of loading of the animal for dispatch to the European Union or on the last working day before embarkation.

(2) Commission Decision 2004/211/EC of 6 January 2004 establishing the list of third countries and parts of territory thereof from which Member States authorise imports of live equidae and semen, ova and embryos of the equine species, and amending Decisions 93/195/EEC and 94/63/EC (OJ L 73, 11.3.2004, p. 1).

(3) Delete as appropriate.’