
Article 1 

1. The plan for preventive vaccination against highly pathogenic avian influenza of subtype H5 to be applied until 30 September 2008, submitted by Germany on 24 August 2006 is approved.The preventive vaccination shall be carried out with an inactivated vaccine of avian influenza of the subtype H5N2 in three selected poultry holdings in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany in accordance with that plan.
2. Official surveillance accompanied by appropriate biosecurity measures, as set out in the preventive vaccination plan, shall be carried out in the poultry holdings referred to in paragraph 1.
3. The preventive vaccination plan shall be implemented efficiently.
4. The Commission shall publish the preventive vaccination plan.
Article 2 

1. The competent authority shall ensure that:
(a) poultry, eggs, poultry carcasses and fresh poultry meat from poultry kept on the holdings referred to in Article 1(1) (‘poultry and other commodities’) are not moved from those holdings;
(b) poultry and other captive birds are not introduced into the holdings referred to in Article 1(1) during the implementation of the preventive vaccination plan.
2. The competent authority may, by way of derogation from paragraph 1(a) and in accordance with the preventive vaccination plan, authorise the following movements of poultry and other commodities:
(a) movement to the national reference laboratory for avian influenza in Germany;
(b) transport for immediate disposal within Germany following the collection of appropriate samples to be dispatched to that laboratory.
Article 3 

1. The competent authority shall ensure that the poultry holdings referred to in Article 1(1) are cleansed and disinfected in accordance with the instructions of the competent authority following the removal of all poultry from the holdings.
2. The competent authority shall ensure that all means of transport used for movements of poultry and other commodities are cleansed and disinfected following each transport with disinfectants and methods of use approved by the competent authority.
Article 4 
Germany shall submit a report to the Commission on the implementation of the preventive vaccination plan within one month from the date of application of this Decision.
It shall present quarterly reports at the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health as from 3 October 2006.
Article 5 
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany.
Done at Brussels, 20 October 2006.
For the Commission
Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission