
Article 1 
Decision 2005/779/EC is amended as follows:

1.. the heading of Chapter II is replaced by the following:
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2.. the following Article 3a is inserted:
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Article 3a 

1. Italy shall ensure that where an outbreak of swine vesicular disease occurs in a province in a region recognised as free from swine vesicular disease, the recognition of that province as free from vesicular swine fever is immediately suspended unless the origin of the infection is clearly established as a secondary outbreak and the epidemiological enquiry carried out in accordance with Article 8 of Directive 92/119/EEC as regards the outbreak has demonstrated that there is a negligible risk of further spread of that disease.
2. The measures provided for in Articles 7, 8 and 9 shall apply to the province referred to in paragraph 1.
3. Italy may once more recognise the province referred to in paragraph 1 as free from swine vesicular disease if the following conditions are fulfilled:
(a) all holdings located in the province shall have been submitted on two occasions at an interval of 28 to 40 days, to a sampling for serological testing on a number of pigs sufficient to detect a prevalence of swine vesicular disease of 5 % with a confidence interval of 95 %, and the results have been negative;
(b) the measures in the protection and surveillance zones established around outbreaks of swine vesicular disease in the province are no longer applied in accordance with point 7(3) and (4) and point 8(3)(b) of Annex II to Directive 92/119/EEC;
(c) the results of the epidemiological enquiry carried out in accordance with Article 8 of Directive 92/119/EEC as regards outbreaks of swine vesicular disease have not demonstrated any risk for further spread of that disease.
4. Italy shall immediately communicate to the Commission and the other Member States any measures taken pursuant to paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 and publish those measures. The suspension referred to in paragraph 1 shall not exceed six months.';
3.. in Article 5, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
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3. At assembly centres for pigs, sampling shall be carried out at monthly intervals:
(a) for serological testing on a number of pigs sufficient to detect a prevalence of swine vesicular disease of 5 % with a confidence interval of 95 %;
(b) for virological testing of faeces to be collected in every pen where pigs are or have been kept.';
4.. in Article 6, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:
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4. At assembly centres for pigs, sampling shall be carried out at monthly intervals:
(a) for serological testing on a number of pigs sufficient to detect a prevalence of swine vesicular disease of 5 % with a confidence interval of 95 %;
(b) for virological testing of faeces to be collected in every pen where pigs are or have been kept.'
Article 2 
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
Done at Brussels, 27 March 2008.
For the Commission
Androulla VASSILIOU
Member of the Commission