
Article 1 
Where Member States have recourse to Article 6 (1) of Directive 85/511/EEC they shall ensure that the rules they apply in accordance with paragraph 2 of that Article include at least the following:

— the derogation available in Article 6 (1) of Directive 85/511/EEC shall only be granted following an individual assessment of the holding in question carried out by an official veterinarian at the time of the official investigation to confirm or rule out the presence of foot-and-mouth disease,
— this assessment shall take into account all conditions and situations pertaining to the possible spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
Article 2 

1. In granting the derogation referred to in Article 1, Member States shall ensure that there is no more risk of foot-and-mouth disease virus spreading between separate production units on a holding than of it spreading between separate holdings.
2. Intensively managed production units containing healthy animals shall conform to the following requirements:
— they shall be constructionally separate from those which contained infected animals with no communication or common air space between them,
— they shall have separate stores for equipment, fodder, effluent and, where appropriate, milk,
— they shall have individual disinfection facilities at entrances and exits,
— they shall have their own personnel,
— further, there shall have been no exchange of farm machinery or other equipment between infected and healthy units nor shall there have been an exchange of animals, animal products, animal feed, utensils, objects or other substances such as wool or waste or rejected matter liable to transmit foot-and-mouth disease from infected to healthy units.
Article 3 
The conditions laid down in Article 2 shall have been in place, to the satisfaction of the official veterinarian, prior to the date on which one or more infected animals as defined in Article 2 (c) of Directive 85/511/EEC were present on the holding, taking into account the likely incubation period of the disease.
Article 4 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 12 July 1988.
For the Commission
Frans ANDRIESSEN
Vice-President