Regional Workshop 2: Improving Capacity for Diagnosis of Fish and Mollusc Diseases Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2013, Hotel Palas Legal aspects of listed disease monitoring programmes: case of Croatia and different levels of diseases control FAO Technical Cooperation Programme TCP/RER/3402 Assistance to Western Balkan Countries for Improving Compliance to International Standards on Aquatic Animal Health

Legal reference 1/2 Veterinary Act (OG 41/07, 55/11); Order on measures to protect animals from infectious and parasitic diseases and the financing thereof in 2013 (OG 3/13); Ordinance on the notification of animal diseases (OG 62/11, 114/11). Ordinance on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals (OG 42/08, 36/10) which is fully aligned with Council Directive (EC) No 88/2006 on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals; Ordinance on establishing the sampling plans and diagnostic methods for the detection and confirmation of the presence of the mollusc diseases Bonamiosis (Bonamia ostreae) and Marteiliosis (Marteilia refringens) (OG 142/08) which is fully aligned with Commission Decision 2002/878/EC of 6 November 2002 establishing the sampling plans and diagnostic methods for the detection and confirmation of the presence of the mollusc diseases bonamiosis (Bonamia ostreae) and marteiliosis (Marteilia refringens). Aquatic animal disese surveillance

Legal reference 2/2 Ordinance on sampling plans and diagnostic methods for the detection and confirmation of certain fish diseases (OG 142/08) which is fully aligned with Commission Decision 2001/183/EC of 22 February 2001 laying down the sampling plans and diagnostic methods for the detection and confirmation of certain fish diseases and repealing Decision 92/532/EEC (Text with EEA relevance); Ordinance on establishing criteria for zoning and official surveillance following suspicion or confirmation of the presence of infectious salmon anemia (ISA) which is fully aligned with Commission Decision 2003/466/EC of 13 June 2003 establishing criteria for zoning and official surveillance following suspicion or confirmation of the presence of infectious salmon anemia (ISA). Ordinance regarding conditions for the placing on the market and the import of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species (OG 5/10) which is fully aligned with Commission Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 of 12 December 2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species. Aquatic animal diseses surveillance

Passive surveillance (2006/88) Passive surveillance shall include mandatory immediate notification of the occurrence or suspicion of specified diseases or of any increased mortalities. In such cases investigation in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter V shall be required.

Active surveillance (2006/88) Active surveillance shall include: (a) routine inspection by the competent authority or by other qualified health services on behalf of the competent authorities; (b) examination of the aquaculture animal population on the farm or in the mollusc farming area for clinical disease; (c) diagnostic samples to be collected on suspicion of a listed disease or observed increased mortality during inspection; (d) mandatory immediate notification of occurrence or suspicion of specified diseases or of any increased mortalities.

Targeted surveillance (2006/88) Targeted surveillance shall include: (a) routine inspection by the competent authority or by other qualified health services on behalf of the competent authorities; (b) prescribed samples of aquaculture animals to be taken and tested for specific pathogen(s) by specified methods; (c) mandatory immediate notification of occurrence or suspicion of specified diseases or of any increased mortalities.

Targeted surveillance in Croatia (2006/88) Implemented from 2010 on all farms with susceptible species to: –VHS/IHN –KHV –Infection with Bonamia ostreae

Risk based animal health surveillance (2006/88) The risk-based animal health surveillance scheme referred to in shall aim at the detection of: (a) any increased mortality in all farms and mollusc farming areas as appropriate for the type of production; And; (b) the diseases listed in Part II of Annex IV, in farms and mollusc farming areas were species susceptible to those diseases are present.

Risk assesment on all farms Future plans (2014): Risk based surveillanceRisk based surveillance

Sample size (2001/183) Model A — two-year surveillance programme Following at least two years of absence of any clinical or other sign of VHS and/or IHN, all farms in the zone or any farm in a non-approved zone which are to be approved must be health-inspected twice per year for two years. During this two-year control period, which precedes achievement of approved status, the absence of clinical or other signs of VHS and/or IHN must have continued and samples must be collected for examination in accordance with Table 1A. Further, the samples must be selected, prepared and examined as described in Parts I.I to I.IV and the laboratory examinations must have produced negative results for VHS and/or IHN;Table 1A

Croatia – sample size VHS/IHN 2013 VHS/IHN 2012 VHS/IHN 2011

Sample size (2001/183) Model B — two-year surveillance programme with reduced sample size Following an official health inspection programme documenting the historical freedom from VHS and/or IHN for at least four years, all farms in the zone or any farm in a non-approved zone which are to be approved must be health-inspected twice per year for two years. During this two-year control period, which precedes achievement of approved status, the absence of clinical or other signs of VHS and/or IHN must have continued and samples must be collected for examination in accordance with Table 1B. Further, the samples must be selected, prepared and examined as described in Parts I.I to I.IV and the laboratory examinations must have produced negative results for VHS and/or IHN. In order that a health inspection programme might be recognised by the official services for documentation of freedom with regards to VHS and/or IHN, it must fulfil the criteria and guidelines set out in Part III.