
Article 1 
This Decision lays down a derogation from the condition relating to processing of fresh meat originating from pigs from holdings situated in the surveillance zone which has been established around the holdings in which the diagnosis of African swine fever has been officially confirmed in Sardinia, Italy in the municipalities of Anela on 25 May 2005 and Bultei on 10 June 2005.
Article 2 
For the purpose of this Decision, the definitions laid down in Article 2 of Directive 2002/60/EC and of Article 2 of Decision 2005/363/EC shall apply.
Article 3 
The competent authority may authorise that fresh meat from pigs which have been directly transported to a slaughterhouse in accordance with Article 11(1)(f) of Directive 2002/60/EC is not processed, as foreseen in Article 10(3)(f), fourth indent, if the following conditions are met:

((a)) the holding of origin fulfils the requirements of Article 4;
((b)) the movement of the pigs fulfils all the relevant requirements laid down in Directive 2002/60/EC and in particular in Articles 11(1)(f) and (4) thereof as regards the period of respectively 30 or 21 days after the completion of the preliminary cleansing, disinfection and, if necessary, disinsectisation of the infected holdings, during which the pigs may not be removed from the holding of origin;
((c)) the meat, pigmeat products and any other products containing pigmeat originating from these pigs are marked with a special health or identification mark provided for in Article 4 of Decision 2005/363/EC.
Article 4 
The holding of origin referred to in Article 3 shall fulfil the following requirements:

((a)) the holding of origin may not be located in a protection zone established following an outbreak of African swine fever;
((b)) the appropriate bio-security measures to prevent the introduction of African swine fever as well as a self-control programme to detect African swine fever, both referred to in the eradication programme approved by Commission Decision 2005/362/EC, have been put in place in the holding of origin and have been approved by the competent authority before the establishment of the surveillance zone around an outbreak of African swine fever in which the holding is located;
((c)) African swine fever may not have been diagnosed in the holding of origin for at least two years before the dispatch of the pigs from this holding.
Article 5 
Italy shall communicate to the Commission and the other Member States, every month from the date of this Decision, all relevant information on the application of this Decision.
Article 6 
This Decision shall apply until 30 September 2005.
Article 7 
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.
Done at Brussels, 22 August 2005.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission