
Article 1 

1. This Decision lays down certain measures to be applied in Portugal in one holding in the municipality of Vila Nova da Barquinha, region of Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, Ribatejo Norte, where preventive vaccination of mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos) intended for restocking supplies of game (‘mallard ducks’) is carried out in a holding, which is exposed to the risk of the introduction of the avian influenza virus.Those measures include:
(a) certain restrictions on the movement within and dispatch from Portugal of the vaccinated mallard ducks, their hatching eggs and mallard ducks derived therefrom;
(b) the disposal of vaccinated mallard ducks.
2. This Decision shall apply without prejudice to the protection measures to be taken by Portugal in accordance with Directive 2005/94/EC and Decision 2006/605/EC.
Article 2 

1. The plan for preventive vaccination against low pathogenic avian influenza in Portugal, as submitted by Portugal to the Commission on 26 August 2013, until 31 December 2014 (‘the preventive vaccination plan’) is approved.
2. The Commission shall publish the preventive vaccination plan on its website.
Article 3 

1. Portugal shall ensure that the preventive vaccination plan is implemented by using a monovalent inactivated vaccine containing the avian influenza subtype H5 authorised in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.
2. Portugal shall ensure that the preventive vaccination plan is implemented as notified.
Article 4 
Portugal shall ensure that vaccinated mallard ducks on the holding referred to in Article 1(1) are:

((a)) marked individually;
((b)) not moved to other poultry holdings within Portugal;
((c)) not dispatched from Portugal.
After their reproductive period, those mallard ducks shall be killed on the holding referred to in Article 1(1) of this Decision in accordance with the requirements of Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009, and their carcases safely shall be disposed of in accordance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
Article 5 
Portugal shall ensure that hatching eggs derived from mallard ducks on the holding referred to in Article 1(1):

((a)) are only moved to a hatchery in Portugal;
((b)) are not dispatched from Portugal.
Article 6 

1. Portugal shall ensure that mallard ducks derived from the vaccinated parent mallard ducks are only moved after hatching from the holding referred to in Article 1(1) to a holding located in an area surrounding that holding.That area shall be established and identified by Portugal as set out in the preventive vaccination plan.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, mallard ducks derived from vaccinated parent mallard ducks and provided they are older than four month may be:
(a) released into the wild in Portugal; or
(b) dispatched from Portugal provided that:
((i)) the results of the surveillance and laboratory tests as set out in the preventive vaccination plan, are favourable;
((ii)) the conditions for dispatch of poultry for restocking supplies of wild game laid down in Decision 2006/605/EC are met.
Article 7 
Portugal shall ensure that health certificates for intra-Union trade in poultry intended for restocking supplies of game accompanying the mallard ducks dispatched pursuant to Article 6(2)(b) include the following sentence:
'The animal health conditions of this consignment are in accordance with Commission Implementing Decision 2013/651/EU.'.
Article 8 
Portugal shall submit to the Commission a report on the implementation of the preventive vaccination plan within one month from the date of notification of this Decision and report every six months thereafter at the meeting of the Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health.
Article 9 
This Decision shall apply until 31 December 2014.
Article 10 
This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.
Done at Brussels, 8 November 2013.
For the Commission
Tonio BORG
Member of the Commission