Act No 39/2007 Coll.

 

Act No 39/2007 Coll.

 

 

of 12 December 2006
on Veterinary Care

 

The National Council of the Slovak Republic has adopted the following Act:

PART ONE
INTRODUCTORY PROVISIONS

Article 1
Object of Regulation

 

(1)This Act lays down
a) veterinary requirements on animal health, hatching eggs and semen, embryos and ova of animals (hereinafter the „germinal products“) from the aspect of animal health and on protection of animals,
b) veterinary requirements on products of animal origin¹⁾, in the interest of animal health protection,
c) veterinary requirements on animals, hatching eggs, as well as products of animal origin, including animal by-products²⁾ in the interest of public health protection,
d) rights and responsibilities of natural persons and legal persons in the veterinary field, as well as professional veterinary activities and conditions of their performance,
e) organisation, scope of authority and powers of bodies exercising state veterinary administration in the veterinary field,
f) sanctions for breaking responsibilities laid down pursuant to this Act.
(2) This Act shall not apply to the performance of official controls over the verification of compliance with the rules concerning the common market organisation for agricultural products.³⁾

 

 

Article 2
Definition of Some Terms

For the purposes of this Act
a) “trade” shall mean trading in animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products, products of animal origin and other products in compliance with this Act between EU Member States (hereinafter the „Member State“),
b) “third country” shall mean any country that is not a Member State,
c) “other exit” shall mean any exit of consignment originating in a third country
1. transited across the territory of the Slovak Republic into another third country, or
2. consigned from a free zone, free warehouse or customs warehouse into another third country.

 

 

Article 3
Veterinary Requirements

 

Veterinary requirements pursuant to Article 1 paragraph 1 shall include
a) concerning animals, hatching eggs and germinal products
1. control of animal diseases,
2. notification of animal diseases,
3. animal identification and registration,
4. health requirements relating to movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products,
5. health requirements relating to trading in animals, hatching eggs and germinal products and relating to export, transit and import of live animals and germinal products,
6. protection of animals.
b) concerning products of animal origin
1. compliance with the measures for animal health protection in production and placing on the market of products of animal origin,
2. in the interest of public health protection, compliance with the measures for animal health protection in production and placing on the market of products of animal origin,
3. compliance with the requirements for import and transit of products of animal origin entering the territory of the European Community from third countries,
c) concerning animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin
1. prohibition of the use of certain substances referred to in Article 26,
2. monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof according to special rule⁴⁾ in animals and products of animal origin,
3. disposal of animal by-products and their processing,
4. compliance with the requirements for medicated feedingstuffs and requirements for feed safety,
5. compliance with the requirements for monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents,
d) concerning veterinary controls of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and prevention of pathogens in trading with the Member States,
e) concerning veterinary controls of import, transit and export of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and products of animal origin,
f) concerning certification of animals, hatching eggs and animal products,
g) concerning other veterinary requirements according to special rules.⁵⁾

 

PART TWO
EXERCISE OF STATE ADMINISTRATION
IN THE VETERINARY FIELD
AND EXERCISE OF PROFESSIONAL VETERINARY ACTIVITIES

Article 4
Organisation and Scope of Authority
of State Administration Authorities in the Veterinary Field

 

 

(1) The state administration authorities in the veterinary field include
a) The Ministry of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the „Ministry“)
b) The State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the „State Veterinary and Food Administration“),
c) Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations,
d) District Veterinary and Food Administrations.
(2) The authority of state administration in the field of veterinary medicinal products is Institute for State Control of Veterinary Biologicals and Medicaments (hereinafter the „Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments“) with competences laid down pursuant to this Act and a special rule.⁶⁾
(3) State administration authorities referred to in paragraph 1 letter b) to d) (hereinafter the „veterinary administration authorities“) perform official controls⁷⁾ (hereinafter the „veterinary control“) over compliance with veterinary requirements according to this Act and special rules⁸⁾ for the purposes of the verification of compliance with requirements of food law⁹⁾ relating to animals intended for food production, products of animal origin and foods of animal origin
a) at all stages of production, processing and distribution of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and products of animal origin to which special rules¹⁰⁾ apply, on export and other exit out of the European Community, placing products on the market within the European Community, as well as on products entering the European Community¹¹⁾,
b) at all stages of production, processing, distribution and use of feeds which are specified under this Act and special rule,¹²⁾
c) in labelling of beef and beef products according to special rule.¹³⁾
(4) Veterinary administration authorities also perform their competences in customs warehouses, free zones and free warehouses,¹⁴⁾ also in places which are under competences of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, the Police Corps and the Corps of Prison and Court Guard of the Slovak Republic, and in emergency cases and extraordinary situations.¹⁵⁾

Article 5
The Ministry

The Ministry shall
a) lay down the principal trends, priorities and objectives in the veterinary field and monitor their performance,
b) coordinate the cooperation of central state administration authorities who participate in performance of the tasks in the veterinary field, including public health protection, and cooperate on environmental protection,¹⁶⁾
c) as a second instance authority, decide on appeals against the decisions of the State Veterinary and Food Administration judged as the first instance authority,
d) confirm emergency measures ordered by the Chief Veterinary Officer of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the „Chief Veterinary Officer“),
e) lift emergency measures on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer,
f) approve the National Program for Eradication of Animal Diseases and decide on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer on reimbursement of costs and damages relating to diseases referred to in Annex 1, 4 and 5,
g) on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, approve a budget for the financing of the state administration in the veterinary field,
h) approve the participation of the Chief Veterinary Officer in the representation of the Slovak Republic in the veterinary field within international organizations,
i) establish the State Veterinary and Food Institutes and the State Veterinary Institute,
j) establish a computer database for the Central Register of Animals and provide for its operation pursuant to Article 19,
k) approve elements of the system for animal identification and registration and may appoint a natural person or a legal person to ensure their distribution,
l) publish notices, instructions, programs and other measures of the Chief Veterinary Officer in publication organ of the Ministry (hereinafter the „Bulletin“), publish information according to special rule,¹⁷⁾
m) develop, update and adapt an integrated multi-annual plan of controls and on request provide the European Commission with it¹⁸⁾ and present to the Commission annual reports according to special rule,¹⁹⁾
n) support development, distributing and the use of national guides on good hygiene practice and national guides on applying the principles of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) in compliance with the special rule²⁰⁾ in case of products of animal origin, and present to the European Commission guides,
o) based on a proposal of the State Veterinary and Food Administration, delegate specific tasks related to veterinary controls²²⁾ to one or more control bodies in accordance with the special rule²¹⁾and notify the Commission about this fact, and on a proposal of the State Veterinary and Food Administration withdraw the delegation of tasks to control bodies under circumstances referred to in special rule,²³⁾
p) coordinate, approve and review the national contingency plans,²⁴⁾
q) support legal persons exercising the hunting rights in trainings of hunters in respect of hygiene and health protection according to special rule,²⁵⁾
r) control the exercise of state administration performed by the State Veterinary and Food Administration,
s) decide on temporary and definite trade names of fishery and aquaculture products and keep their list,
t) send a list of trade names of fishery and aquaculture products to the European Commission and notify their changes; the List according to letter s) and its changes publish in the Bulletin,
u) establish the Institute of Postgraduate Education of Veterinary Surgeons as a contributory organization according to special rule.²⁶⁾

Article 6
State Veterinary and Food Administration

(1) The State Veterinary and Food Administration is a budgetary organization,²⁶⁾ financially linked to the budget of the Ministry. It is headed by a Director General, who is appointed from among official veterinarians and/or removed by the Minister of Agriculture of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter the „Minister“) according to special rule.²⁷⁾ The Director General shall also be holding the Office of Chief Veterinary Officer in the veterinary field. The Chief Veterinary Officer shall report directly to the Minister.
(2) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall
a) manage, direct, coordinate and control²⁸⁾ the exercise of state administration by the Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations, District Veterinary and Food Administrations and Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments, decide on documentary procedures of veterinary controls according to this Act and in compliance with the special rule²⁹⁾ perform internal audit of veterinary controls carried out by the Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations and Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments; special rule²⁸⁾ shall apply to performance of internal audit mutatis mutandis,
b) manage, direct and control official veterinary laboratories and the Institute of Postgraduate Education of Veterinary Surgeons, control, coordinate and direct control bodies being delegated tasks according to Article 5 letter o) and in compliance with the special rule²⁹⁾ perform internal audits of laboratory activities concerning task performance according to Article 15 paragraph 3,
c) as the second instance authority, decide on appeals against the decisions of the Regional Veterinary and Food Administration and Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments,
d) perform border veterinary inspection through approved border veterinary inspection posts and veterinary inspectors,
e) present to the Ministry the national contingency plans, specifying the measures in case of suspicion of animal disease or occurrence of animal diseases, the national contingency plans²⁴⁾ in the veterinary field and the National Plan of Veterinary Controls according to this Act; present to the Ministry necessary information and data for annual reports according to special rule,¹⁹⁾
f) perform the classification of holdings, regions or areas in respect of the occurrence of diseases referred to in Article 17 and Annexes 4 and 5,
g) deal with offences, impose penalties and measures according to special rule³⁰⁾ following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences,
h) through veterinary inspectors, perform veterinary controls of,
1. establishments, facilities and activities according to letters i), j), w), x), y) and ab),
2. establishments, facilities and activities relating to special rule³¹⁾ in cases according to special rule,³²⁾
i) issue decisions on approval and withdraw decisions on approval for
1. border veterinary inspection posts relating to import from third countries,
2. animal transporters,
3. experiments performed on animals,
4. facilities of natural persons – entrepreneurs and legal persons, both performing experiments on animals, keeping or delivering animals for the purposes of such experiments or keeping animals for the purposes of species preservation,
5. processing plants for animal by-products (hereinafter the „rendering plant“) and the disposal of them relating to the placing on the market and the trade with the Member States, incineration plants of non-processed animal by-products and animal by-products intermediate plants,
6. operators who directly supply the seagoing vessels of international transport with products of animal origin,
7. free zones, free warehouses and customs warehouses,
8. establishments exporting to third countries, provided that a request arises from the side of competent authorities of third countries, according to applicable legal rules of a given third country,
j) issue decisions on approval and withdraw decisions on approval in trade with other Member States or in export to third countries for
1. control posts during transport of animals,
2. insemination stations,
3. embryo collection and transfer teams,
k) issue binding opinions according to Article 44 paragraph 2,
l) keep update lists of approved, authorized or registered establishments, facilities, fish farms, control posts during transport of animals, animal markets, collection centres, natural persons – entrepreneurs and legal persons according to this Act, holdings, regions or areas qualified from the aspect of the occurrence of diseases listed in Annexes 4 and 5, authorized and approved veterinarians, free zones, free warehouses, customs warehouses, operators who directly supply seagoing vessels of international transport and quarantine lists; elaborate, keep and present through the national website to other Member States and publish an update review of lists of approved food establishments for products of animal origin together with their approval numbers and other information according to special rule,³³⁾
m) authorize reference laboratories which can be official laboratories established according to Article 15 or other accredited laboratories, and withdraw their authorization,
n) conclude contracts with competent reference laboratories of the European Communities and competent national reference laboratories of the Member States according to Article 15 paragraph 3 letter e) and f),
o) issue certificates of compliance with the veterinary requirements laid down pursuant to Article 3 after border veterinary controls in import of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin from third countries which accompany imported consignments of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin³⁴⁾ to the places of destination,
p) control, professionally direct and coordinate the system of identification and registration of animals and specific labelling of beef and products thereof,
q) through own educational institution and the Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations decide and provide for activities according to Article 7 paragraph 2 letter e), inspect trainings and periodical postgraduate courses for employees performing veterinary control within their competences according to this Act and special rules³⁵⁾ and in cooperation with Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations develop
1. conception of specialized postgraduate education of official veterinarians; other forms of postgraduate education of employees of veterinary authorities and official laboratories,
2. programs of vocational training and retraining of official veterinarians and other employees of veterinary authorities and official laboratories,
r) be responsible for other tasks according to this Act and special rule,³⁶⁾
s) recognize documents on qualification and professional competence of veterinary doctors and veterinary auxiliaries,
t) issue certificates for the pursuit of professional veterinary activities in the territory of the Slovak Republic for the competent body which is a counterparty of the EEA Agreement (Agreement on the European Economy Area) for the purposes of the exercise of veterinary activities in another country which is a counterparty of the EEA Agreement,
u) issue certificates of imposed and led disciplinary measures in the territory of the Slovak Republic for competent body which is a counterparty of the EEA Agreement (Agreement on the European Economy Area) for the purposes of the exercise of veterinary activities in another state which is a counterparty of the EEA Agreement,
v) set up a computer database for the Central Register of Pet Animals and provide for its operation according to Article 19,
w) verify compliance of pet passport with the special rule,³⁷⁾
x) allocate the serial numbers for pet passports to the passport makers,
y) issue and withdraw decisions on licence for animal transporters,
z) send notifications to the European Commission according to special rules,³⁸⁾
aa) perform veterinary controls of animal protection in export to third countries,
ab) grant derogations from the use of animal by-products according to special rule,³⁹⁾
ac) review national guides on good hygiene practice and on applying the principles of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) according to special rule⁴⁰⁾ in case of products of animal origin,
ad) order and lift measures in case of discovering or suspecting serious or immediate threat to animal or human health posed by products of animal origin, feeds or animal by-products, or in case of threat to safety of foods of animal origin,
ae) verify the competences of control bodies for delegation according to special rules²¹⁾ and propose to the Ministry their delegation or withdraw their delegation according to Article 5 letter o),
af) perform audit or inspection of control bodies and impose correction measures if the results of audit or inspection show that the control body has not properly performed the delegated tasks and responsibilities,
ag) decide on evidence of compliance with hygiene requirements according to special rule⁴¹⁾ and on availability of the use of alternative materials, facilities, systems and methods for achieving the objectives according to special rules,⁴²⁾
ah) cooperate with the Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic on the national level according to Article 16 paragraph 5,
ai) inform the European Commission according to special rule,⁴³⁾
aj) take measures for implementation of coordinated programs according to special rule,⁴⁴⁾
ak) coordinate communications among competent veterinary administration authorities of the Member States according to special rules,⁴⁵⁾
al) approve official laboratories for Trichinella testing in the meat,⁴⁶⁾
am) establish and professionally direct the surveillance network system,
an) issue authorizations according to special rule,⁴⁷⁾
ao) perform the risk assessment according to special rule⁴⁸⁾ and based on the found risk decide on sampling of particular farmed or wild species where the risk of Trichinella infestation is negligible,
ap) on request of food business operators assess the alternative freezing methods for killing Trichinella parasites in pigmeat,⁴⁹⁾
aq) on the basis of a risk analysis grant exemptions from frequency of bacteriological sampling to small slaughterhouses and establishments producing minced meat and meat preparations in small quantities.⁵⁰⁾
(3) The certificate referred to in paragraph 2 letter t) confirms that a veterinarian in the territory of the Slovak Republic had performed professional veterinary activities at least three years over the last five years before issuing such certificate; for the purpose of issuing such certificate, the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall refrain from the fulfillment of the condition required for the exercise of veterinary profession in respect of “at least three years over the last five years before issuing such certificate” provided that a veterinarian in a personal interview in front of commission whose members shall be designated by the Director General of the State Veterinary and Food Administration from the representatives of the State Veterinary and Food Administration, the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic and the University of Veterinary Medicine shall prove satisfactory knowledge to perform professional veterinary activities and he/she had acquired overall practice in performing professional veterinary activities minimum over a period of three years.
(4) the certificate referred to in paragraph 2 letter u) confirms that a disciplinary measure on veterinarian had been imposed during his performance of professional veterinary activities or a disciplinary proceeding has been led against him.
(5) The Chief Veterinary Officer shall
a) be competent in emergency cases according to Article 34 paragraph 1 and Article 35 paragraph 9 to
1. directly manage any veterinarian who perform professional veterinary activities in the territory of the Slovak Republic,
2. order emergency measures, in particular restrictions on the movement of persons, prohibition of the movement of persons and their contact and their concentration or other emergency measures which he considers to be necessary in respect of the seriousness of danger to animal or human health,
3. direct employees of public administration and other persons whose activities shall be necessary for control or eradication of animal disease, zoonosis or elimination of other cause that may pose a serious danger to animal or human health and in respect to the occurrence of which the extraordinary emergency measures were ordered,
b) represent the Slovak Republic in the veterinary field under international organizations such as
1. Working Groups and Committees of the European Commission,
2. Working Groups of the Council of the European Communities,
3. International Office of Epizootics (OIE),
4. Codex Alimentarius,
5. Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreement under the World Trade Organization (WTO),
6. other international organizations after approval by the Minister,
c) provide information to the Minister about new scientific evidence or facts relating to state veterinary activities,
d) propose to the Minister a budget for the veterinary administration and exercise of state veterinary activities,
e) present to the Minister proposals for generally binding legal rules for execution of this Act,
f) draw up and publish the national contingency plans for suspicion of disease or occurrence of animal diseases and the lists according to paragraph 2 letter l) and make them accessible to the public and other Member States in compliance with requirements of the European Commission,
g) authorize veterinarians for issuing the pet passports, control over compliance with requirements for issuing the pet passports and withdraw their authorization according to special rule,⁵¹⁾
h) authorize official veterinarians to perform certification according to Article 36 and withdraw their authorization,
i) organize exams and tests for official veterinarians and veterinary auxiliaries, appoint examination boards and approve the tests for certifying knowledge of employees of veterinary authorities and control bodies that are requested for performance of certain veterinary controls and specific tasks concerning their exercise according to special rules,³⁵⁾
j) order and withdraw measures following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences or in suspicion of serious or immediate threat to animal or human health by products of animal origin, feeds or animal by-products or at a threat to safety of foods of animal origin, including the measures relating to the individually determined legal and natural persons,
k) appoint and remove the Director of Institute of Postgraduate Education of Veterinary Surgeons.

Article 7
Regional Veterinary and Food Administration

(1) The Regional Veterinary and Food Administration is a budgetary organization²⁶⁾ financially linked to the budget of the State Veterinary and Food Administration. The seats and territorial districts of the Regional Veterinary and Food Administrations are identical with the seats and territorial districts of the Self-Governing Regions of the Slovak Republic.⁵²⁾ The Regional Veterinary and Food Administration is headed by a Director, who is appointed from among official veterinarians and/or removed by the Director General of the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to special rule.²⁷⁾ The Director shall also be holding the Office of Regional Veterinary Officer. The Regional Veterinary Officer shall report directly to the Chief Veterinary Officer.
(2) The Regional Veterinary and Food Administration shall
a) manage, control,²⁸⁾ direct and coordinate the exercise of state administration by the District Veterinary and Food Administrations; in compliance with the special rule²⁹⁾ and according to this Act perform internal audit of veterinary controls carried out by the District Veterinary and Food Administrations; special rule²⁸⁾ shall apply to performance of internal audit mutatis mutandis,
b) as the second instance authority, decide on appeals against the decisions of the District Veterinary and Food Administrations,
c) perform and provide collection, transfer and processing of information and data as decided by the State Veterinary and Food Administration, and submit to the State Veterinary and Food Administration their analyses on behalf of a given district of the Region.
d) approve
1. installations for cleaning and disinfection of means of transport intended for transport of animals and transport of products of animal origin, provided they are not a part of approved or authorized establishment,
2. assembly centres, markets and collection centres in animal trade, facilities for preservation of protected animal species, premises used by a purchase and sales dealer with animals and by other consignees of animals and hatching eggs,
3. performance of activities relating to mediation of the purchase or sale of animals by legal persons and natural persons in trade,
4. facilities of natural persons – entrepreneurs and legal persons who breed or keep animals for the purposes of their exhibition to the public, or who are engaged in basic or applied research, or who keep or deliver animals for the purposes of such research,
5. voluntary labelling specifications for beef and beef products provided that this is a matter of not compulsory data according to special rule,¹³⁾
6. quarantines for animal species according to special rules,⁵³⁾
7. establishments intended for production of hatching eggs, one-day-old poultry, breeding poultry and commercial poultry,
e) participate in the preparation and development of curricula for postgraduate education of official veterinarians and conduct trainings for employees of the District Veterinary and Food Administrations and for official veterinarians in a territorial district of the Region,
f) perform tasks in the field of civil emergency planning, fire prevention and in the field of safety and health protection at work within its territorial competences,
g) draw up regional contingency plans, specifying the measures in case of suspicion of the disease or occurrence of animal diseases, regional contingency plans²⁴⁾ in the veterinary field and the Regional Plan of Veterinary Controls according to this Act,
h) negotiate offences, impose penalties and measures according to special rule³⁰⁾ following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences,
i) through veterinary inspectors perform veterinary controls of establishments, facilities and activities according to letter d) and the veterinary controls of establishments, activities and persons relating to special rule³¹⁾ in cases according to special rule,³²⁾
j) perform tasks in the field of veterinary pharmacy according to special rule,⁶⁾
k) cooperate with the competent authorities of state administration in the field of public health (hereinafter the “Public Health Authority”“) on the regional level according to Article 16 paragraph 5,
l) order and withdraw measures following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences or in suspicion of serious or immediate threat to animal or human health by products of animal origin, feeds or animal by-products or at threat to safety of animal origin foods, including the measures relating to the individually determined legal and natural persons within territory competences of several District Veterinary and Food Administrations in the territorial district of the Region,
m) on request of slaughterhouse and cutting plant operators, authorize pig carcass splitting before obtaining the results of testing for Trichinella in accordance with conditions specified to in special rule,⁴⁶⁾
n) on request of slaughterhouse operators, authorize the procedure according to special rule,⁵⁴⁾
o) authorize
1. in individual cases, further processing of batches of animal origin foods which do not fulfill applicable microbiological food safety criteria, using a treatment eliminating microorganisms in question on terms laid down pursuant to special rule,⁵⁵⁾
2. in individual cases, transport of meat of ungulates which did not attain a specified temperature throughout the meat for production purposes of specific products, and determine conditions of transport of such meat from one establishment to another,⁵⁶⁾
3. slaughtering of poultry referred to in special rule⁵⁷⁾ and farmed animals according to special rule⁵⁸⁾ at the farm of provenance,
4. transport of frozen fishery products from cold stores in order to be thawed in an approved establishment without compliance with specific temperature requirements,⁵⁹⁾
5. keeping and transport of raw milk or dairy products for which a higher temperature is necessary as referred to in special rule ⁶⁰⁾ owing to technological reasons related to the manufacture of certain dairy products,
p) regularly perform a risk assessment upon which a nature and intensity of auditing tasks in respect of individual establishments for products of animal origin intended for human consumption shall depend ,⁸⁾
q) in individual cases impose the conditions under which the animals are to be dealt with under a specific scheme for the eradication and control of specific diseases referred to in special rule,⁶¹⁾
r) decide on ante-mortem inspection of pigs and poultry at the holding of provenance and authorize slaughtering of such inspected animals according to special rule,⁶²⁾
s) perform other tasks according to this Act and special rules.⁶³⁾
(3) The Regional Veterinary and Food Administration organize the exams for trained persons according to special rule⁶⁴⁾ and for this purpose establish an examination board and after successful completion of the exam issue to the trained person a certificate of competence for initial examination of wild game on the spot and for the examination after the killing.

Article 8
District Veterinary and Food Administration

(1) The District Veterinary and Food Administration is a budgetary organization²⁶⁾ financially linked to the budget of the State Veterinary and Food Administration. The seats of the District Veterinary and Food Administrations and their territorial districts are referred to in Annex 2.
(2) The District Veterinary and Food Administration is headed by a Director, who is appointed from among official veterinarians and/or removed by the Director General of the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to special rule.²⁷⁾ The Director shall also be holding the Office of District Veterinary Officer according to this Act. The District Veterinary Officer shall report directly to the Chief Veterinary Officer.
(3) The District Veterinary and Food Administration shall
a) perform through veterinary inspectors, other official veterinarians and official veterinary auxiliaries⁶⁵⁾ veterinary controls over compliance with veterinary requirements according to Article 3 and requirements according to special rules⁶⁶⁾
1. at all stages of production, processing and distribution of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and products of animal origin, except for retail establishments providing catering services and except for retail establishments not providing manufacturing activities referred to in Article 41 paragraph 5 letter u) and v) and paragraph 6 letter d) and which are subject to official control of foods according to special rule,⁶⁷⁾ medicated feedingstuffs and other products according to this Act,
2. in placing feeds on the market, in movement and transport, placing on the market, trade with the Member States and export to third countries of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products, products of animal origin and other products according to this Act; perform veterinary controls and inspections,
3. within animal health control and protection of animals also in cases not related to their placing on the market,
4. within import of products of animal origin into the free zones, free warehouses and customs houses, within the operators who directly supply seagoing vessels of international transport with products of animal origin, and within import of animals and hatching eggs to be quarantined according to Article 7 paragraph 2 letter d) point 6,
b) issue binding opinions according to Article 44 paragraph 1,
c) draw up and regularly update district contingency plans, specifying the measures in case of suspicion of the disease or occurrence of animal diseases, district contingency plans²⁴⁾ in the veterinary field and the District Plan of Veterinary Controls according to this Act,
d) deal with offences, impose penalties and measures according to special rule³⁰⁾ following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences,
e) order and withdraw measures following the facts being revealed during the exercise of his/her competences or in suspicion of serious or immediate threat to animal or human health by products of animal origin, feeds or animal by-products or at threat to safety of animal origin foods, provided they relate to the individually determined legal and natural persons who are within its territory competences,
f) conclude contracts according to Article 13 paragraph 2 letter a),
g) draw up results of examinations, laboratory diagnoses and analysis and testing results on behalf of official veterinarians and keepers of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin and selected products of plant origin,
h) approve, suspend and withdraw a decision on approval of
1. establishments for products of animal origin according to Article 41,
2. insemination stations and embryo collection and transfer teams towards the national market,
3. road transport means for animal transport intended for the journeys lasting for more than eight hours, and road transport means for transport of dogs and cats exclusively within the territory of the Slovak Republic, provided that such transport is performed by a person referred to in Article 37 paragraph 8,
4. veterinarians according to special rule,⁶⁸⁾
i) authorize activities, establishments and facilities referred to in Article 7 paragraph 2 letter d) of point 2 and 3, provided that
1. they do not apply to trade with the Member States or export to third countries,
2. they relate to placing animals, hatching eggs and germinal products exclusively on the national market,
j) authorize transport of animal by-products, their processing, and approve the storage plants for animal by-products, manufacturing of pet foods, biogas or compost production from animal by-products, manure processing, pharmaceutical and other technical plants for processing animal by-products according to special rule⁶⁹⁾ and establishments for processing animal by-products according special rule,⁷⁰⁾
k) issue authorization for incorporation of animal proteins into feeds according to special rule,⁷¹⁾
l) control the system of identification and registration of animals and labelling of beef and products thereof and impose measures according to special rules,¹³⁾
m) perform the collection of basic data, interpretation of results, provide their transfer and reports according to the instructions of the State Veterinary and Food Administration,
n) perform tasks in the field of veterinary pharmacy according to special rule,⁶⁾
o) perform control over disposal of veterinary medicinal products according to Article 12 paragraph 2 leter e),
p) through official veterinarians perform certification according to Article 36 within the trade with the Member States and export into third countries,
q) issue certificate of professional competence for employees of animal transporters and assembly centres,
r) grant derogations from the use of animal by-products according to special rule,⁷²⁾
s) authorize the special collection centres and tanneries for delivering raw metarials on the purpose of production of gelatine or collagen intended for human consumption,⁷³⁾
t) cooperate with the competent regional bodies of the Public Health Authority according to Article 16 paragraph 5,
u) issue authorizations according to special rules,⁷⁴⁾
v) authorize the collection, transportation, processing and storage of milk, milk-based products and milk-derived products according to special rule,⁷⁵⁾
w) authorize veterinarians according to special rule,⁷⁶⁾
x) in individual cases, authorize boning of frozen meat or deep-frozen meat for the preparation of minced meat or meat preparations immediately before mincing,⁷⁷⁾
y) based on risk analysis, assess the number of official veterinarians and official auxiliaries to be present in any slaughterhouse within its territorial competences, and decide on the number according to special rule,⁷⁸⁾
z) perform other tasks according this Act and special rules,⁶³⁾
aa) authorize the use of feeds containing incorporated animal protein,
ab) authorize professionally competent persons for performance of activities according to Article 10 paragraph 12.

Article 9
Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments

(1) The Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments is a budgetary organization²⁶⁾ financially linked to the budget of the State Veterinary and Food Administration. The Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments is headed by a Director, who is appointed from among official veterinarians and/or removed by the Director General of the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to special rule.²⁷⁾
(2) The Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments shall
a) authorize the preparation of medicated feedingstuffs,
b) approve establishments for the preparation of medicated feedingstuffs,
c) impose measures for removal of shortcomings in relation to the preparation of medicated feedingstuffs,
d) impose penalties for violation of responsibilities in relation to the preparation of medicated feedingstuffs.

Professional Veterinary Activities
Article 10

(1) Professional veterinary activities shall include
a) professional veterinary activities that are subject to the exercise of state administration in the veterinary field (hereinafter the „state veterinary activities“),
b) private veterinary activities and services (hereinafter the „private veterinary activities“) the performance of which is subject to special rule.⁷⁹⁾
(2) Professional veterinary activities may be performed by a veterinarian who meets requirements according to Article 11 and by other persons who meet requirements according to special rule.⁸⁰⁾
(3) State veterinary activities may only be performed by an official veterinarian who is appointed by the Minister on a proposal from the Chief Veterinary Officer.
(4) Private veterinary surgeon may perform state veterinary activities provided that
a) he concluded a contract according to Article 13 paragraph 2 letter a),
b) he had been appointed by the Minister on a proposal from the Chief Veterinary Officer to perform such activities,
c) he completed a training organized by the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic in the field of his/her competences and within the scope decided by the State Veterinary and Food Administration in respect to the exercise of state veterinary activities,
(5) The scope of state veterinary activities shall be determined by a contract concluded between a private veterinary surgeon and the District Veterinary and Food Administration. A private veterinary surgeon may not perform state veterinary activities provided that
a) being an owner, co-owner, purchase or sales dealer, seller, importer, exporter, consignee, transporter, keeper of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, feeds or medicated feedingstuffs intended to be placed on the market, traded or exported, or products of animal origin intended to be placed on the market (including retail sales of products of animal origin), traded or exported, referring to his authorization within the scope of contract concluded according to Article 13 paragraph 2 letter a),
b) being an owner or co-owner of animal holding, establishment, facility, centre or legal entity, which the animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products or products of animal origin come from, and are intended to be placed on the market, referred to his/her competences under the contract concluded according to Article 13 paragraph 2 letter a) and that bring him economic benefits,
c) being a chief executive officer, partner, statutory body or member of statutory body, member of the Board of Directors or the Supervisory Board of legal person who is doing business activities in the subject of enterprise according to letters a), b) and d),
d) perform gainful or business activities in connection with the whole distribution of veterinary medicinal products or preparation of medicated feedingstuffs and their placing on the market.
(6) The provisions of the paragraph 5 shall not apply to payments for the performance of private veterinary activities according to special rule.⁷⁹⁾
(7) In case a veterinarian stops performing obligations or satisfying conditions referred to in this Act and generally binding legal rules issued for its execution, the Chief Veterinary Officer may suspend or ask the Minister for withdrawing his/her authorization for the performance of state veterinary activities.
(8) Professional veterinary activities and services that are not the state veterinary activities may be performed by special veterinary units of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic, the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Justice of the Slovak Republic in their own facilities provided that it is a matter of animals serving their special purposes.
(9) In the course of veterinary inspections of fresh meat, an official veterinarian may be assisted by official veterinary auxiliaries who satisfy requirements for qualifications according to special rule.⁸¹⁾
(10) Internal audit of veterinary controls and other controls of state veterinary activities according to this Act and special rule²⁹⁾ may be performed only by official veterinarians appointed according to paragraph 3.
(11) Placing of animals used for service purposes into quarantine is provided within competences of special veterinary units of the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic under supervision of their professional veterinarian in military facilities of the Slovak Republic. After returning home from third countries these service animals shall be placed into quarantine according to special rule,⁸²⁾ provided that veterinary administration authority had not decided on other term; The veterinary units of the Ministry of Defence shall immediately notify the State Veterinary and Food Administration of placing into quarantine.
(12) In the course of sampling and veterinary controls of colonies of bees, an official veterinarian may be assisted by professionally competent persons under the authorization issued by the District Veterinary and Food Administration, providing the following requirements shall be met:
a) completion of studies at technical secondary school of veterinary orientation or
b) completion of technical training course and practical training under the guidance of an official veterinarian, and passing a professional exam reflecting theoretical and practical knowledge in the veterinary field.

Article 11

(1) Professional veterinary activities may be pursued by a veterinary surgeon who had completed university studies of second degree in the branch General Veterinary Medicine or in the branch Food Hygiene at the University of Veterinary Medicine in the Slovak Republic whose subject-matter is in compliance with Annex No 6, and
a) he/she is a citizen of the country which is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or
b) in the case of private veterinary activities, he/she is a citizen of third country and fulfills the requirements according to special rule.⁸³⁾
(2) Professional veterinary activities may be pursued by a veterinary surgeon who had completed at least five years´ theoretical and practical full-time university studies of veterinary medicine in the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area whose subject-matter is in compliance with Annex No 6, and he/she holds a diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications (hereinafter “evidence of formal qualifications”) referred to in Annex No 7, and
a) he/she is a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or
b) in the case of private veterinary activities, he/she is a citizen of third country and fulfills the requirements according to special rule.⁸³⁾
(3) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon who had completed university studies of veterinary medicine in a third country and he/she is a holder of diploma that is recognized according to special rule,⁸⁴⁾ and
a) he/she is a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or
b) in the case of private veterinary activities, he/she is a citizen of third country and fulfills the requirements according to the special rule.⁸³⁾
(4) Evidences of formal qualifications of veterinary surgeons who are interested in pursuing state veterinary activities shall be recognized by the State Veterinary and Food Administration, and evidences of formal qualifications of veterinary surgeons who are interested in pursuing private veterinary activities, or pursuing the activities as employed persons or self-employed persons shall be recognized by the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic, not later than three months from making an application and presenting documents. The evidence of formal qualifications being recognized by the State Veterinary and Food Administration or by the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic is regarded as a document mutually recognized.
(5) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon being a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and whose qualification is not in compliance with all requirements referred to in Annex No 6, provided that his/her evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented with certificate of a given country, which is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, confirming that such studies he/she had entered or acquired the qualification before implementing the legal order of the European Community referred to in Annex No 8, point 2 into the legal order of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area and that in compliance with its legal order he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(6) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who is a holder of evidence of formal qualifications obtained in the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and which is not in compliance with the title of evidence of formal qualifications referred to in Annex No 7, provided that such evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority in the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area; this certificate shall include a statement confirming that the evidence of formal qualifications concerned had been awarded after completion of his/her qualification and professional preparation whose subject-matter is in compliance with Annex No 6, and that the country which is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area regards the document as equivalent to documents referred to in Annex No 7.
(7) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications in a third country, provided that such document had been recognized by other country which is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The State Veterinary and Food Administration or the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic revises the authenticity and completeness of the evidence of formal qualifications and shall decide on recognition, not later than three months from making an application.
(8) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in the Republic of Estonia before May 1, 2004, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Republic of Estonia confirming that in compliance with the legal order of the Republic of Estonia he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least five consecutive years over seven years before issuing such certificate.
(9) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in Czechoslovakia before January 1, 1993, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Czech Republic, confirming that his/her qualification is equivalent to qualification in the Czech Republic and that in compliance with the legal order of the Czech Republic he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(10) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in the Soviet Union before August 20, 1991, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Republic of Estonia, confirming that his/her qualification is equivalent to qualification in the Republic of Estonia and that in compliance with the legal order of the Republic of Estonia he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least five consecutive years over seven years before issuing such certificate.
(11) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in the Soviet Union before August 21, 1991, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Republic of Latvia, confirming that his/her qualification is equivalent to qualification in the Republic of Latvia and that in compliance with the legal order of the Republic of Latvia he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(12) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in the Soviet Union before March 11, 1990, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Republic of Lithuania, confirming that his/her qualification is equivalent to qualification in the Republic of Lithuania and that in compliance with the legal order of the Republic of Lithuania he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(13) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in Yugoslavia before June 25, 1991, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Republic of Slovenia, confirming that his/her qualification is equivalent to qualification in the Republic of Slovenia and that in compliance with the legal order of the Republic of Slovenia he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(14) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications in the German Democratic Republic, confirming the completion of professional preparation which had commenced before the unification of Germany; this document qualifies its holder to pursue professional veterinary activities in the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany and provided that this document is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Federal Republic of Germany, stated that in compliance with the legal order of the Federal Republic of Germany he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate.
(15) Professional veterinary activities may also be pursued by a veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who had acquired the evidence of formal qualifications or whose qualification commenced in the Italian Republic before January 1, 1985, provided that this evidence of formal qualifications is supplemented by a certificate of professional competence issued by the competent authority of the Italian Republic, confirming that in compliance with the legal order of the Italian Republic he/she had pursued veterinary activities at least three consecutive years over five years before issuing such certificate, or whereby confirms, that the evidence of formal qualifications had been awarded after completing the education and professional preparation whose subject-matter is in compliance with Annex No 6.
(16) Certificates issued by competent authority of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, may not be older than three months at the presentation. The certificates and evidences of formal qualifications shall be presented together with officially certified translation of the text into the state language.
(17) If any doubts arise as to the recognition of evidences of formal qualifications relating to the authenticity or completeness of the documents issued by the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the State Veterinary and Food Administration or the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic may ask the competent authority of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area for certifying the authenticity and completeness of the evidence of formal qualifications and for confirming the fact that the veterinary surgeon met all requirements for professional preparation referred to in Annex No 6.
(18) On application of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, the State Veterinary and Food Administration or the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic shall examine the matters of fact relating to the territory of the Slovak Republic and which might affect the commencement of exercising professional veterinary activities in the territory of that country; not later than three months from serving an application, the country shall be informed about all discovered matters of fact and taken measures.
(19) The veterinary surgeon, a citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, who met the requirements for pursuing professional veterinary activities in the Slovak Republic has the right to use his/her academic degree and its abbreviation, being awarded to him/her according to the national legal rules of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, or the native country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, namely in the language of that country. The State Veterinary and Food Administration or the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic may request him/her to present behind his/her academic degree the name and place of institute or examination board that awarded this academic degree; in case that this academic degree can be replaced with the degrees used in the Slovak Republic, they decide on the way of its use in the territory of the Slovak Republic.
(20) The citizen of the country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area shall be obliged to show his/her ability to speak the professional state language⁸⁵⁾ within the range necessary for pursuing the professional veterinary activities, except a citizen of the Slovak Republic.
(21) The University of Veterinary Medicine in the Slovak Republic issues certificates of qualifications in the branch General Veterinary Medicine or in the branch Food Hygiene for competent authorities in the countries that are signatory powers of the Agreement on the European Economic Area for the purposes of the exercise of professional veterinary activities in other country that is a signatory power of the Agreement on the European Economic Area; the certificate confirms that the studies completed by a veterinary surgeon, resp. commenced before May 1, 2004 are fully in compliance with requirements of Annex No 6.

Article 12
Responsibilities and Competences of Official Veterinarians

(1) Official veterinarian, within the scope of his/her authorization for pursuit of state veterinary activities shall be obliged to
a) notify immediately the Chief Veterinary Officer by a specified order of any suspicion of animal disease occurrence that is under notifiable diseases, referred to in Annex 3 and special rule,⁸⁶⁾ as well as the other facts being important within the interest of animal protection, animal health and public health protection, and safety of animal origin foods, identified upon his/her performance of tasks,
b) keep official records on his/her findings, imposed measures, and instructions issued,
c) provide legal and natural persons, concerned by the findings, measures and instructions, with a copy of official record, according to letter b),
d) keep the duty of secrecy of the facts received during the pursuit of state veterinary activities if they are protected by copyright law, trade secret or their use is subject to licensing and that are in compliance with the veterinary requirements according Article 3,
e) identify himself/herself by a service ID card in the exercise of state veterinary activities or by an authorization for the pursuit of these activities, besides those cases that require an urgent intervention to prevent pain or animal suffering, or spread of animal contagious disease,
f) participate in postgraduate education, vocational trainings and retrainings decided by the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter q),
g) to take official samples according to paragraph 2 letter h), handle and label samples according to requirements laid down pursuant to special rules⁸⁷⁾ and methods decided by the State Veterinary and Food Administration by such a way to be guaranteed their legal and analytic validity.
(2) The official veterinarian is competent to
a) enter places where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products, selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported, relating to their placing on the market, trade, import, export and transport,
b) enter during the day places where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products, selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported provided that it is legitimated by circumstances of the case, mainly in performing tasks according to Article 14,
c)ask persons whose activities are subject to this Act for all necessary documents, data, oral or written explanations or information, copies of them, as well as photographic documentation if deemed necessary,
d) ask legal or natural persons whose activities are subject to this Act and special rules⁵⁾ for the cooperation and necessary subject-matter or personal assistance in performing tasks in the frame of veterinary controls,
e) perform veterinary preventive measures and treatment of animals; for this purpose he/she is competent to keep own stock of veterinary medicinal products for emergency use,
f) confirm calculations of costs and damages in case of killing or slaughtering animals, seizing or destroying their carcasses, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin or selected products of plant origin and feeds,
g) take immediately, even without the consent of keepers of animals or products of animal origin, the necessary measures if necessary for prevention, preventing the spread and control of animal diseases, or if they are within the interest of safety of animal origin foods,
h) take samples in necessary quantity and amount; no compensation shall be provided for the samples taken within state veterinary activities, as they are considered as official samples.
(3) Upon executing and confirming standard forms, documents and certificates, an official veterinarian, in compliance with his/her authorization, is competent to use official stamp of the “Official Veterinarian of the Slovak Republic” showing the seat of the competent veterinary administration authority and its identification number.

Article 13
Responsibilities and Competences of Private Veterinary Surgeons

(1) Private veterinary surgeon shall be obliged to
a) notify the competent veterinary administration authority of the commencement and termination of private veterinary activities, his/her seat and the place of the pursuit of private veterinary activities if the place is not identical with the seat,
b) immediately notify the competent veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of animal disease occurrence that is under notifiable diseases according to Article 18 and 20, as well as the other facts being important within the interest of animal protection, animal health and public health protection, and safety of animal origin foods, if it had not been notified by a food business operator,
c) be particular about the observance of withdrawal periods and other requirements laid down pursuant to this Act, as well as special rules⁸⁸⁾  for elimination of unacceptable residues in products of animal origin or unacceptable combination of residues of veterinary medicinal products with feed additives in feeds,
d) keep records on prophylactic activities and medical interventions performed, as well as on prescriptions, use and dispensing veterinary medicinal products, and retain such records for a minimum period of five years in order to be available to competent veterinary administration authorities,
e) keep the duty of secrecy of the facts received during the pursuit of professional veterinary activity.
(2) Private veterinary surgeon is competent to
a) conclude a contract with the District Veterinary and Food Administration for the pursuit of certain state veterinary activities,
b) refuse performance of professional veterinary interventions if he/she shall not be obliged to perform them according to special rule⁷⁹⁾ or within the contract; the administration of first aid may be refused only on account of health hazards to veterinary surgeon in the face of them he/she cannot be effectively protected,
c) perform an urgent intervention without the consent of animal keeper if it is necessary for reasons of health precaution, diagnostics, preventing the spread of animal diseases or control of diseases being subject to notifiable diseases, or if it is in the interest of safety and hygiene of products of animal origin.
(3) Reimbursement rates on the performance of state veterinary activities by private veterinary surgeons shall be settled by Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic.
(4) Private veterinary surgeon who is authorized for issuing the pet passports according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter g) shall be obliged to
a) issue a pet passport only for the animal identified according to special rule,⁸⁹⁾
b) enter the data into the Central Register for Pet Animals and keep own register of records listed in Parts I – V and VIII of the pet passport,
c) keep a register of received, issued and cancelled pet passports,
d) record performed professional veterinary activities into the Parts IV, V and VIII of the pet passport,
e) cancel a pet passport issued according to letter a) if
1. owner of pet animal shall ask to do it,
2. existing pet passport had been lost,
f) have technical equipment for identification and registration of animals.
(5) Private veterinary surgeon who was suspended from authorization for issuing the pet passports according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter g) because he/she had failed to meet responsibilities according to paragraph 4, may be reauthorized for issuing the pet passports at the earliest after the expiry of a period of one year since entering a decision to suspend authorization according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter g) into force. An appeal against the decision to suspend authorization shall not have a deferring effect.

Article 14
Veterinary Inspector

(1) Veterinary inspector is an official veterinarian who pursues
a) veterinary controls, veterinary examinations and testing of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and selected products of plant origin, including sampling or measures for keeping the samples for the purposes of further examination, analysis or testing according to the veterinary requirements,
b) controls over animal identification and registration,
c) verifications of compliance with the requirements for protection of animals and veterinary examinations and testing of animals, including sampling or measures for keeping the samples for the purposes of further examination, analysis or testing,
d) veterinary controls over animal by-products in their processing and placing on the market, including sampling or measures for keeping the samples for the purposes of further examination, analysis or testing,
e) veterinary controls over products of animal origin according to this Act, relating to their placing on the market, import, export, trade and entry from third countries, and other veterinary controls relating to placing the products of animal origin on the market, including their inspections and testing, sampling or measures for keeping the samples for further examinations, analyses and testing, as well as state veterinary activities according to special rule,⁹⁰⁾
f) health marking of fresh meat or shall be responsible for meat labelling by a health mark according to special rule,⁹¹⁾
g) veterinary controls and inspections of animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin, drinking water, feeds and medicated feedingstuffs in a feed establishment and other veterinary controls, including sampling or measures for keeping the samples for further examinations, analyses or testing for verification of compliance with the prohibition of the use of substances according to Article 26 and monitoring of substances and residues according to Article 27, and monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents,
h) veterinary controls and inspections of feeds and medicated feedingstuffs, including sampling or measures for keeping the samples for further examinations, analyses or testing according to the requirements laid down under special rules,⁹²⁾
i) veterinary controls and inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin animal by-products, selected products of plant origin and pathogens in imports and entry from third countries,
j) controls, testing and inspections of medicated feedingstuffs and veterinary medicinal products according to special rule,⁶⁾
k) other state veterinary activities according to this Act.
(2) If required by circumstances of the specific case, mainly in existence of animal or public health hazards, or if it is necessary on account of animal protection or if suspicion exists, or if the violation of responsibilities was discovered, or non-compliance with requirements laid down under this Act and generally binding legal rules issued for its execution or under special rules,⁵⁾ the veterinary inspector shall immediately order appropriate measures for protection of animal and public health or animal protection, or the measures necessary for providing the safety of products of animal origin, mainly
a) restriction or prohibition of the movement, transport, placing on the market or use of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products, feeds or selected products of animal origin; prohibition on the placing on the market, distribution or use of medicated feedingstuffs or placing of animals in approved animal assembly centres, or collection centres within the trade for necessary time, provided that a veterinary control showed the animals incapable for a scheduled transport,
b) seizure, killing or slaughtering animals and hatching eggs,
c) seizure, destroying or ordering specific preparation, processing or treatment of germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products, selected products of plant origin and feeds, or designation of products of animal origin, foods of animal origin and feeds for purposes other than that for which they were originally designated,
d) refusal of entry of consignment at the border inspection post within the import into the territory of the Slovak Republic or transport via the territory of the Slovak Republic; refusal to issue a certificate for export of products of animal origin into third countries,
e) suspension of operation or closing a specific part of food processing plant for appropriate time.
(3) Veterinary inspector who pursues veterinary controls according to special rule⁹³⁾ has to fulfill the requirements according to special rule.⁹⁴⁾

Article 15
Official Veterinary Laboratories

(1) The State Veterinary and Food Institutes and the State Veterinary Institute established by the Ministry as contributory organizations according to special rule²⁶⁾ pursue activities of official veterinary laboratories according to this Act.
(2) Directors of the State Veterinary and Food Institutes and the State Veterinary Institute shall be appointed and removed by the Director General of the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to special rule.⁹⁵⁾
(3) Official veterinary laboratory
a) performs laboratory diagnostics, laboratory examinations, analyses or testing of official samples,
b) performs testing of official samples and specified analyses of official samples of feeds according to official methods,
c) presents results of examinations, microbiological analyses, laboratory diagnostics and analyses and examinations and testing for residues to the Chief Veterinary Officer and competent district veterinary officers and border inspection posts,
d) may provide services of laboratory diagnostics, examinations, analyses or testing of samples other than official samples; in occurrence of a case according to special rule,⁹⁶⁾ the laboratory shall be obliged to inform the competent veterinary administration authorities about the fact in case the food business operator has not done it,
e) performs contracts concluded between the State Veterinary and Food Administration and competent reference laboratories of the European Communities, particularly to ensure
1. trainings and retrainings of its employees with a view to acquire necessary professional knowledge, resp. knowledge updating,
2. participation in periodical proficiency testing within the European Communities,
3. supply of standard sera, reference reagents and substances, cell cultures and other diagnostic or analytical materials,
f) performs contracts concluded between the State Veterinary and Food Administration and competent national reference laboratories of the Member States, provided that it is a matter of testing within the inspection, microbiological analyses, laboratory analyses and diagnostics, as well as the determination of residues that are not established in the Slovak Republic and not indexed in the list issued according to paragraph 4; in such case, the official veterinary laboratory shall ensure the packaging of samples and their rapid transport into the competent national reference laboratory of the Member State,
g) performs analyses of feed samples for presence of microorganisms, unacceptable substances, radioactive contamination, substances and products in feeds pursuant to the requirements laid down under special rule,⁹²⁾
h) is aimed at performing the tasks according to letters a) to c) and g), as its main activity.
(4) The list of official methods or official methods for microbiological analyses, laboratory diagnostics of animal diseases and analyses and testing of residues, analyses and testing of products of animal origin, feeds, list of methods and procedures for official sampling, and the list of official laboratories and the procedure for applying the requirements for sampling and sample analyses for a supplementary expert opinion according to special rule⁹⁷⁾ shall be issued and published by the Chief Veterinary Officer.
(5) To ensure the activities referred to in paragraph 3, an official veterinary laboratory shall
a) have adequate technical equipment, premises facilities and qualified and experienced staff for rapid diagnostics or examinations, analyses or testing according to the methods and procedures established and recognized in the Member States,
b) fulfill requirements according to special rule.⁹⁸⁾

 

Article 16
Cooperation in the Exercise of State Administration in Veterinary Field

(1) Members of the Police Corps and customs authorities shall be obliged to provide assistance in the measures aimed towards restricting the placing on the market, or trading in animals and products thereof and feeds, towards prohibiting the movement of animals and by persons in the area contaminated by an agent of contagious disease or by any other agent that might present a serious danger to animal or public health, and towards the execution of measures according to this Act if requested so by veterinary administration authority, veterinary inspector or official veterinarian.
(2) In the case of occurrence of animal contagious diseases listed in Annex No. 3, the Police Corps, the Civil Protection Corps,¹⁵⁾ members of the Armed Forces and customs authorities shall be obliged to assist in preventing the spread of disease and disease eradication.
(3) If the employees of veterinary administration authorities or official veterinarians during the exercise of their responsibilities relating to their competences are exposed to physical resistance or they are hampered or obstructed in the exercise of veterinary supervision, veterinary controls or inspections and in other official acts within the veterinary administration, or if such resistance or obstacles are expected, the employees of veterinary administration authorities, veterinary inspectors or official veterinarians may in performance of the tasks to ask the Police Corps for assistance.
(4) By the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, the Ministry may regulate particulars on cooperation by an agreement with the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic, the Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic.
(5) In the case of serious danger to public health, veterinary administration authorities inform the competent public health authorities and act in cooperation with them. By the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, the Ministry may regulate particulars on cooperation by an agreement with the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic, and the District Veterinary and Food Administration with the public health authorities at regional level.
(6) Veterinary administration authorities cooperate with competent authorities of the Member States in the field of veterinary controls and with the European Commission in order to apply legal rules in the veterinary field and prevent their breaking, to discover the cases of infringement of such rules and finalize their investigation.
(7) Public administration authorities in scope of their authority shall be obliged to provide assistance to veterinary administration authorities in the measures aimed towards restricting the placing animals on the market, animal movement, preventing the spread of contagious animal diseases or other agent that might present a serious danger to animal health and protection or public health, and towards the execution of measures according to this Act if requested so by veterinary administration authority, veterinary inspector or official veterinarians. The veterinary administration authorities inform public administration authorities on animal health, the situation in contagious animal diseases and on data relating to protection of public and animal health.
(8) Competent veterinary administration authorities, other public administration authorities and persons according to Article 37 paragraph 1 shall provide the experts of the European Commission with the assistance they require in order to perform their tasks according to special rule⁹⁹⁾, and in particular access on the same basis as officials of the competent authority shall be given to all concerned information, documentation and persons, as well as access to places, establishments, installations and transport means.
(9) Members of the Police Corps shall be competent to control the license of animal transporter, certificate of competence for drivers and attendants in case of animal transport exceeding 8 hours, and the certificate of approval for means of transport by road.

 

PART THREE
VETERINARY REQUIREMENTS ON ANIMALS
HATCHING EGGS, GERMINAL PRODUCTS
AND PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN

 

Article 17
Control of Specified Diseases

(1) The following disease shall be subject to control, prevention and diagnostics:
a) foot-and-mouth disease (Aphtae epizooticae),
b) classical swine fever (Pestis suum),
c) bluetongue (Febris catarrhalis ovium, Blue tongue),
d) African horse sickness (Pestis equorum),
e) avian influenza (Influensa avium),
f) Newcastle disease (Morbus Newcastle),
g) fish and mollusc diseases referred to in Annexes No 4 and 5,
h) specified zoonoses and specified zoonotic agents in animals and animal products, as well as the measures against them in order to prevent the outbreaks of food-borne diseases and intoxications.
(2) Owner or keeper of animals shall be obliged to notify the veterinary administration authority of suspicion or occurrence of any disease referred to in paragraph 1.
(3) Veterinary administration authority may, in case of suspicion or occurrence of a disease referred to in paragraph 1 or according to special rule¹⁰⁰⁾, order the measures for prevention of spreading the disease, in particular isolation or killing of animals, restriction or prohibition of the movement and transport of animals, as well as transport of products of animal origin and substances that may be a carrier of the disease agent, ban on assembling of people, prohibition or restriction of artificial insemination and breeding.
(4) To ensure the execution of measures according to paragraph 3, the contingency plans, namely national contingency plans, regional contingency plans and district contingency plans shall be drawn up and approved.
(5) Animal owner or keeper shall be obliged to vaccinate and yearly revaccinate susceptible carnivorous animals older than three months against rabies and provide an immediate veterinary examination of the animal that caused injury to a human being, as well as provide an investigation and vaccination of the animal according to its physiological and biological needs.

Article 18
Notification of Animal Diseases

(1) The Chief Veterinary Officer shall, directly, within 24 hours, notify the European Commission and the Member States of
a) any primary outbreak of animal disease referred to in Annex No. 3 that has been confirmed in the territory of the Slovak Republic,
b) withdrawal of restrictive measures in the territory of the Slovak Republic which had been ordered due to an outbreak of disease referred to in Annex No. 3, as soon as it has been eradicated.
(2) In addition to the information given in paragraph 1, the Chief Veterinary Officer shall, directly, on the first working day of a week, notify the European Commission and the Member States of all secondary outbreaks of disease referred to in Annex No 3 which had been confirmed in the territory of the Slovak Republic. This notification shall relate to the previous week which ends Sunday midnight.
(3) Notifications according to paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be communicated by a last version of information system of the European Community - Animal Disease Notification System (ADNS).

Article 19
Identification and Registration of Animals

(1) Animals shall be identified and their identification data shall be entered into the Central Register of Animals. The computerized database for the Central Register of Animals shall be operated by a legal or natural person appointed by the Ministry.
(2) Identification and registration system for bovine animals shall include
a) eartags for individual identification of animals,
b) computerized database for the Central Register of Animals,
c) animal passports,
d) individual register kept in each holding.
(3) Pet animals⁸²⁾ shall be identified and their identification data shall be entered into the Central Register of Pet Animals. The computerized database for the Central Register of Pet Animals shall be operated by the Chamber of Veterinary Surgeons of the Slovak Republic.
(4) Identification and registration system for pet animals shall include
a) individual identification of pet animal,
b) computerized database for the Central Register of Pet Animals issued with pet passports,
c) pet passports,
d) register kept by authorized veterinarian.
(5) Dogs, cats and ferrets intended for trade shall be identified by clearly tattooing or microchip.
(6) The veterinary administration authorities shall have permanent access to all data held in identification and registration system for animals and pet animals.
(7) Legal and natural entities proving a justified interest, as well as the legal entities established for the purpose to protect consumer and other legal entities pursuant to special rules¹⁰¹⁾ shall have access to those data held in the system according to paragraphs 1 and 2 that are not subject to confidentiality and protection of data according to special rules.¹⁰²⁾
(8) The European Commission shall have access to all data and information relating to the identification and registration system for animals.
(9) The identification and registration system for animals according to paragraph 1 also refers to animal species referred to in special rules.¹⁰³⁾
(10) Particulars on identification and registration of animals and pet animals shall be stipulated by a generally binding legal rule that shall be issued by the Ministry.

Article 20
Health Requirements for Movement of Animals,
Hatching Eggs and Germinal Products

(1) Animals, hatching eggs and germinal products may be moved provided that they satisfy the requirements laid down under this Act and special rules104), and provided that
a) they originate from a facility referred to in Article 7 paragraph 2 letter d) point 4, originate from a holding, and region that are for the purposes of prevention and control of animal diseases referred to in Annex No 4 classified according to health status with respect to such diseases,
b) they are transported by means of transport that have been cleaned and disinfected before in a facility approved for such purpose,
c) their dealers have been approved,
(2) For the purposes of prevention and control of animal diseases referred to in Annex No 5, holdings and regions may be classified according to health status with respect to such diseases.
(3) Movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products is subject to veterinary controls.
(4) Movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products may only be performed in compliance with the classification according to paragraphs 1 and 2.
(5) For the purposes of prevention and control of animal diseases, referred to in Annexes No 4 and 5, the owner or keeper of animals shall be obliged to notify the veterinary administration authority of any suspicion or occurrence of such diseases.
(6) Embryos may be moved only provided that embryo collection and transfer teams are approved.

Article 21
Import of Animals, Hatching Eggs
and Germinal Products from Third Countries

(1) Entry of imported animals, hatching eggs and germinal products that are in compliance with the requirements established by this Act and special rules¹⁰⁵⁾ may be permitted after a veterinary control pursuant to Article 35.
(2) The Chief Veterinary Officer shall issue
a) lists of third countries approved for import of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products into the territory of the Slovak Republic,
b) lists of natural persons – entrepreneurs and legal persons and facilities who breed or keep animals for the purposes of their exhibition to the public, or who are engaged in basic or applied research, or who keep animals for the purposes of such research, as well as the lists of animal assembly centres in third countries approved for import of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products into the territory of the Slovak Republic,
c) specimen certificates for different animal species, hatching eggs and germinal products that have to be used in imports.
(3) If it is a matter of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products whose health requirements are not harmonized, the Chief Veterinary Officer shall establish the specimen certificates and a list of third countries, their parts and natural persons – entrepreneurs and legal entities from which imports are not permitted.

Article 22
Animal Protection

(1) Owner or keeper of animal is obliged in breeding or keeping of animals to ensure their protection and welfare which is understood to achieve such relationship between the environment and each individual animal which having regard to animal species, degree of its development, adaptation and domestication shall guarantee its good health status, physiological and ethological needs, adequate freedom of movement, social relationships, development of its abilities and physiological manifestations of behaviour, namely by observance of requirements for
a) animal control,
b) lairage of animals and used installations,
c) feeding, watering, administration of medicinal products, veterinary medicinal products and veterinary preparations⁶⁾
d) animal breeding and interventions in animals,
e) keeping records,
f) animal movement,
g) conducting experiments in animals, and breeding, and supplying animals for conducting experiments on them,
h) protection of animals at the time of their killing or slaughtering,
i) protection of wildlife and dangerous animals kept in captivity,
j) protection of pet animals.
(2) Cruelty and abuse to/of animals shall be prohibited and is understood as any action, with exception of a justified medical reason and approved experimental reason, which shall
a) cause permanent or long-lasting damage to animal health,
b) cause permanent or long-lasting failure of non-restorable parts of animal organism, except for female sterilization and male castration , tail-docking of dogs in compliance with recognized breed signs when they are less than 14 days of age, and dehorning of cattle when they are less than eight weeks of age under conditions preventing the spread of diseases,
c) cause permanent or long-lasting behaviour disorder in animal ,
d) exceed biological abilities of animal or cause unnecessary pain, injury or suffering to animal,
e) restrict feeding and watering of animal resulting in impairment of its health status,
f) cause unnecessary animal suffering or pain by offering incurably ill, weak or exhausted animal, for which further surviving is connected with permanent pain or suffering, for any other purpose as immediate painless killing,
g) cause animal pain or suffering by using the animal as a living bait.
(3) Moreover, it shall be prohibited
a) animal doping or administration of psychotropic and chemical substances that might damage animal health or induce non-physiological responses in animals, as well as using animal feeds/foods containing substances or articles that might cause pain, suffering of animals, or they might otherwise damage animals, except for legitimate medical reasons and approved experimental reasons,
b) to use any stimuli, subjects or devices inducing pain so that their using result in clinically evident injury or clinically significant negative changes in central nervous system or other organ systems of animal,
c) to intervene into the animal birth in such a way that may result in an enhanced pain sensitivity or damage animal health,
d) to set animal against the other animal, animal training or exercising performed on the other live animal, except for falcon training of predatory birds for the purpose of animal hunting and preparation of animal for its rejoining the wild, and accordingly it shall be prohibited to use live animals as a bait, except for approved experimental reasons; according to special rule106, the use of hunting dogs or hunting available dogs shall not be deemed as a setting animal against the other animal, and accordingly animal training and exercising performed on the other live animal,
e) to use live animals as a price or premium in competitions and exhibitions,
f) to use live animals in artistic production and advertising without notifying the competent veterinary administration authority,
g) to advertise cruelty and abuse to/of animals,
h) to abandon animals with the intention of getting them off; wildlife returning to its natural environment shall not be deemed as an abandonment, under condition that health status of animal and characteristics of environment tolerate it,
i) killing an animal without any legitimate reason.
(4) Adequate reasons for animal killing shall be
a) a case of necessary defence and emergency case,
b) killing a slaughter animal or other animal to obtain products of animal origin,
c) killing an animal within the experiment being approved,
d) painless killing of animal owing to its incurable disease, serious or extensive injuries, or its age, provided that its further surviving would be associated with permanent pain or suffering; painless killing of animal after foregoing deprivation of consciousness may only be performed by a veterinarian, excluding ending the suffering of animals in emergency cases, if it were impossible to ensure assistance of veterinarian in time,
e) killing an animal for eradication, control, prevention and disease diagnostics, and rodent control,
f) killing unwanted animals, if it were impossible to provide an alternative care,
g) hunting an animal in permitted way.
(5) The prohibitions pursuant to paragraphs 2 and 3 refer only to vertebrates.
(6) Owner or keeper of animal shall secure the measures to avoid animal escape and incidental or undesirable reproduction.
(7) The Government and communities may establish, run or participate in operation of adequate number of animal shelters and quarantines.

Article 23
Slaughtering of Animals Intended for Private Domestic Consumption

(1) Bovine animals and pigs may be slaughtered at a breeder for the purpose of private domestic consumption provided that
a) competent District Veterinary and Food Administration had been notified of animal slaughtering no later than one working day before,
b) requirements for animal protection have been met at the time of slaughter,
c) requirements for collection and safe disposal of animal by-products have been met in compliance with special rule,⁶⁹⁾
d) requirements for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) testing have been met in compliance with special rule,¹⁰⁰⁾ if it is a case of beef animals,
e) requirements for Trichinella testing have been met in compliance with special rule,¹⁰⁷⁾ if it is a case of pigs.
(2) Particulars on the slaughter of slaughter animals intended for private domestic consumption may be stipulated by a generally binding legal rule to be issued by the Ministry.

Article 24
Animal Health Protection
in Placing Products of Animal Origin on the Market

Only products of animal origin which are subject to veterinary controls and which are in compliance with requirements laid down under this Act and special rules¹⁰⁸⁾ may be placed on the market or traded, provided that they have been obtained from animals to which
a) no restrictions are imposed for reason of suspicion of disease or occurrence of disease listed in Annex No 3 or
b) restrictions are imposed for reason of suspicion of disease or occurrence of disease listed in Annex No 3 and that are
1. labelled with a special mark,
2. treated and processed by a method for securing destruction of disease agent.

Article 25
Import of Products of Animal Origin from Third Countries

(1) Entry into the territory of the Slovak Republic of imported products of animal origin from third countries may be permitted after a veterinary control pursuant to Article 35, provided that they satisfy the requirements pursuant to this Act and special rules.¹⁰⁹⁾
(2) The Chief Veterinary Officer shall issue
a) lists of third countries approved for import of products of animal origin into the territory of the Slovak Republic,
b) lists of establishments in third countries approved for import of products of animal origin into the territory of the Slovak Republic,
c) certificate specimens concerning import of various types of products of animal.

Article 26
Prohibition of the Use in Stockfarming of Certain Substances

(1) In stockfarming shall be prohibited the use and the placing on the market, with intention of administering to
a) animals of specified certain substances with hormonal action, substances with thyrostatic action and betaagonists on which particulars are laid down under special rule,¹¹⁰⁾
b) dairy cattle of bovine somatotrophin.¹¹¹⁾
(2) Derogations from the prohibition of the use of certain substances with hormonal action and betaagonists, referred to in paragraph 1 for therapeutical or zootechnical purposes are laid down under special rule.¹¹⁰⁾

Article 27
Monitoring of Certain Substances
and Residues Thereof in Live Animals and Products of Animal Origin

(1) In interest of securing safety of products of animal origins, the monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof, laid down under special rule4, shall be performed in animals from which animal products were obtained, in their feeds and drinking water, as well as in products of animal origin.
(2) Products of animal origin obtained from animals which had been treated by prohibited substances or medicinal products or from animals which had been given unauthorized substances or medicinal products referred to in Article 26, as well as animal products exceeding maximum residue limits or animal products not in compliance with maximum acceptable levels are unfit for human consumption and shall be excluded from the placing on the market.
(3) Monitoring shall be performed according to a plan drawn up by the State veterinary and Food Administration.
(4) Operators involved in primary processing of products of animal origin shall be responsible for performance of own controls and they are co-responsible for monitoring and analysis of substances and residues thereof referred to in paragraph 1. Private veterinary surgeons shall be obliged to comply with the measures, as well as to monitor the compliance with the measures for monitoring of referred-to substances in the holdings of farm animals.
(5) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall submit yearly to the European Commission the plan referred to in paragraph 3, resp its yearly updating and also inform yearly the European Commission on data and results obtained from the execution of the plan referred to in paragraph 3, as well as on results of all performed controls and investigations in connection with substances and residues thereof referred to in paragraph 1.

Article 28

 

(1) Veterinary administration authorities and the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments shall perform controls and, based on discovered results thereof, shall impose the measures necessary for elimination of threat associated with animal health and safety of products of animal origin, if
a) it has been discovered a possession of prohibited or unauthorized substances or medicinal products contrary to this Act, or possession of authorized substances or veterinary medicinal products by persons who are not authorized to be in possession of them according to special rule,⁶⁾
b) there is suspicion or it has been discovered that animals used to obtain products of animal origin had been treated with substances or medicinal products contrary to prohibitions referred to in Article 26 or the animals were given unauthorized substances or medicinal products,
c) there is suspicion or it has been discovered that after a treatment with authorized veterinary medicinal products a withdrawal period had not been observed,
d) it has been discovered a possession, use or production of prohibited substances or unauthorized substances or medicinal products in a production establishment, in preparation of medicated feedingstuffs or in animal breeding.
(2) Veterinary administration authorities, the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments and other competent authorities shall perform controls and take necessary measures within their competences against any person to divert further animal health risk, in interest of public health protection against threat or injury associated with products of animal origin, if they prove
a) transfer of prohibited substances or medicinal products with the purpose of administering them to animals,
b) administration of prohibited substances or medicinal products to animals or administration of authorized substances or medicinal products for other purposes than those laid down under this Act and special rule.¹¹⁰⁾

Article 29
Disposal of Animal By-Products
and Prevention of Pathogens in Feeds of Animal Origin

(1) In disposal of animal by-products, their processing and placing them on the market it shall be approached by such a way that the occurrence of pathogens in feeds of animal origin, including fish feeds shall be prevented, as well as the prevention of threat to animal or public health or damage to the environment shall be ensured.
(2) Controls over compliance with veterinary requirements for disposal and processing of animal by-products and their placing on the market, as well as inspections of animal by-products at each stage of disposal, processing and placing on the market shall be performed by veterinary administration authorities.
(3) Animal by-products intended for disposal, or placing on the market may be processed only in such processing plants that are approved or authorized by a competent veterinary administration authority and that are under veterinary supervision.
(4) Operators of processing plants and facilities referred to in paragraph 3 shall ensure the performance of own controls.
(5) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall inform the Member States and the European Commission on approved or authorized plants for animal by-products processing and on suspension of the validity of their approvals.
(6) Owner of animals, keeper of animals and originator of animal by-products shall be obliged to ensure a safe disposal of animal by-products that are produced in connection with his/her activities or in his/her plant.
(7) Persons referred to in paragraph 6 shall be obliged
a) immediately to notify the occurrence of animal by-products and pass them to a natural person – entrepreneur or legal person responsible for collection and disposal of animal by-products,
b) to classify and safely store animal by-products up to the date of their transport for a safe disposal in such a way that they cannot be stolen and they cannot pose a threat to public or animal health or damage to the environment,
c) to ensure that identified dead animal carcasses shall be ready for transport for a safe disposal together with applicable documents for identification.
(8) If the owner of animals, keeper of animals or originator of animal by-products is unknown, whereupon responsibility to notify an occurrence of dead animal carcass or animal by-products according to special rule¹¹²⁾ shall pass to a subject who is owner, tenant or administrator of real estate or road network administrator.
(9) Natural person – entrepreneur or legal person who is operating a rendering plant shall be obliged
a) to ensure a continuous receipt of notification upon occurrence of dead animal carcass or animal by-products,
b) to afford facilities for the exercise of veterinary activities including the allocation of free adequate premises for the exercise of veterinary activities, as well as to permit their exercise,
c) to remove individual identification marks just before safe disposal of dead animal carcass and keep a register of individual identification marks and notify the Central Register of Animals of the data.
(10) Originator of animal by-products shall ensure their separated collection and storage according to categories¹¹³⁾ in suitable and labelled vessels, containers, tanks and premises, usually chilled until their transport for processing in approved plants, and similarly it shall be obliged to keep a register of produced animal by-products and without undue delay to notify the rendering plant or technical plant of immediate transport of animal by-products.
(11) Natural person or legal person who is operating a rendering plant for processing of animal by-products shall be obliged to ensure transport and safe disposal of animal by-products within the scope of its approval up to 24 hours from the notification by originator of animal by-products and up to 48 hours if animal by-products are chilled, as well as dead animal carcasses according to paragraph 8 provided that no other disposal has been decided by a state body according to special rule.¹¹⁴⁾
(12) Means of transport and containers intended for transport of animal by-products shall be in compliance with the requirements pursuant to special rule.¹¹⁵⁾

Article 30
Preparation, Placing on the Market and Use of Medicated Feedingstuffs

(1) In preparation of medicated feedingstuffs, placing medicated feedingstuffs on the market, prescription of medicated feedingstuffs by veterinarians and their use exclusively for therapeutic reasons or therapeutic-preventive reasons, or if a mass application of them is required, it shall be followed in compliance with special rule¹¹⁶⁾ to prevent threat or damage to animal health and to ensure the safety of products of animal origin obtained from animals administered medicated feedingstuffs.
(2) Medicated feedingstuffs may only be prepared by manufactures who have premises and conditions to perform these activities approved by the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments and which are subject to veterinary supervision.
(3) Control over preparation of medicated feedingstuffs and inspections of medicated feedingstuffs within their preparation shall be performed by the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments in collaboration with the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration.
(4) Control over possession, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs and inspection of medicated feedingstuffs in the course of these activities shall be performed by veterinary administration authorities.
(5) If controls discover, or controls reveal a suspicion that conditions for preparation of medicated feedingstuffs had not been observed, the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments shall perform all necessary controls and measures within the manufacturer of medicated feedingstuffs provided that it had not been executed by the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration.

Article 31
General Requirements for Feed Safety

The provisions of special rule¹¹⁷⁾ shall apply to feed safety.

Article 32
Veterinary Controls and Inspections
Relating to Trade with the Member States
in Animals, Hatching Eggs, Germinal Products, Animal By-Products and Feeds

(1) Animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products referred to in Article 20 and 29 which are subject to trade with the Member States shall be under veterinary control and inspection according to special rule.¹¹⁸⁾
(2) In the course of veterinary controls and inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products which are subject to trade with the Member States, the veterinary administration authorities and persons authorized to perform such activities shall be competent to
a) control and perform the inspections of animal holdings, hatching eggs, installations, animal by-products plants, products of animal origin, germinal products, means of transport intended for transport of animals and hatching eggs, as well as animal marking and identification methods and systems,
b) control if owners or keepers of animals, hatching eggs, establishments and employees of establishments and facilities comply with the health conditions for movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products, as well as with the veterinary requirements for disposal and processing of animal by-products and pathogens,
c) sample animals which are kept for the purposes of sale, placing on the market or transport,
d) sample products that are kept for the purposes of storage, sale, placing on the market or transport,
e) inspect documents or other important data necessary for following controls that shall be performed pursuant to provisions of this Act.
(3) Animal dealers and other consignees of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products which are subject to trade with the Member States shall perform responsibilities and observe requirements laid down under special rule.¹¹⁸⁾
(4) At the place of origin of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products which are subject to trade with the Member States, the veterinary administration authorities perform control over
a) compliance with requirements referred to in Article 20 and 29,
b) holdings, centres or natural persons – entrepreneurs or legal persons that store, process, produce or handle animals, hatching eggs or germinal products, as well as control over animal dealers, installations for cleaning and disinfection of means of transport intended for animals, animal markets, insemination stations, embryo collection and transfer teams, collection centres, assembly centres for animals and plants for processing animal by-products,
c) performance of responsibilities by owners or keepers of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, and animal by-products at all stages of production and placing on the market,
d) compliance with hygiene requirements relating to means of transport intended for transport of animals and hatching eggs.
(5) If in the course of control the veterinary administration authority suspects or discovers that veterinary requirements are not observed at the place of origin of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal origin waste, and pathogens that are subject to trade with the Member States, it may order measures, in particular examination or restriction of their movement and transport, or execute other measures.
(6) Veterinary administration authority at the place of origin that had been confirmed by a certificate or document accompanying trade consignments of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, and animal by-products shall notify the Member States of any information as necessary on these consignments through computer network of the European Commission.
(7) Veterinary administration authority at the place of destination of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, and animal by-products shall perform within the trade with the Member States veterinary controls and inspections in a non-discriminating way. A non-discriminating way is understood as performance of veterinary controls and inspections within the same scope, frequency and by the same method as are performed controls and inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, and animal by-products originating in the Slovak Republic.
(8) Veterinary administration authority may also perform controls of consignments of animals, hatching eggs, products of animal origin, and animal by-products during their transport across the territory of the Slovak Republic, provided that the competent veterinary administration authority during the transit or the competent authority of the Member State at the place of destination have obtained information which justifies suspicion of violation of veterinary requirements.
(9) Veterinary administration authority may decide on putting animals and hatching eggs under quarantine and designate the place of quarantine.

Article 33
Veterinary Controls and Inspections Relating to Trade with the Member States
in Products of Animal Origin

(1) Products of animal origin referred to in special rule,¹¹⁹⁾ which are subject to trade with the Member States shall be under veterinary control and inspection.
(2) Veterinary administration authorities and persons authorized to perform veterinary controls and inspections are competent in the course of veterinary controls related to trade with the Member States in products of animal origin to
a) perform inspection of premises, offices, laboratories, installations, means of transport intended for transport of products of animal origin, workshops and their equipment, cleaning and maintenance of establishments, products, operations which are used in manufacturing and processing of products, marking and labelling of products, and presentation of animal origin products,
b) control whether personnel of establishments meet requirements for public health protection in the course of production and placing on the market of products of animal origin,
c) sample products kept in establishments for the purposes of storage, sale, placing on the market or transport,
d) inspect documents or computer form data necessary for following controls of products of animal origin.
(3) Consignees at the places of destination of consignments of products of animal origin from other Member States shall meet responsibilities and observe requirements pursuant to special rule.¹¹⁹⁾
(4) Veterinary administration authorities at the place of origin of products of animal origin perform control over
a) compliance with requirements in the interest of animal health protection and public health protection in establishments,
b) performance of responsibilities by operators of establishments in the course of production, storage, transport, and placing on the market of products of animal origin at all stages of the placing on the market.
(5) Veterinary administration authorities control products of animal origin which are subject to trade with the Member States in the same way as they control products of animal origin intended for the national market. If by veterinary reasons the products cannot be placed on the market in the territory of the Slovak Republic, they may not be consigned either into the territory of the Member States.
(6) Veterinary administration authorities perform at the place of destination of products of animal origin which are subject to trade with the Member States the controls and inspections in a non-discriminating way pursuant to Article 32 paragraph 7.
(7) Veterinary administration authority may also perform controls of consignments of products of animal origin during their transport across the territory of the Slovak Republic, provided that the competent veterinary administration authority during the transit or the competent authority of the Member State at the place of destination have obtained information which justifies suspicion of violation of veterinary requirements.
(8) If in the course of trade in products of animal origin a need for performance of veterinary controls pursuant to Article 47 paragraph 5 arises, or it is necessary to take measures according to special rule¹²⁰⁾ in order to solve repeated violation of veterinary requirements, whereupon the costs incurred by competent veterinary administration authorities shall be reimbursed by enterprises concerned.

Article 34
Extraordinary Emergency Measures
in Trade and Placing on the Market

(1) Upon trade and placing on the market of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and products of animal origin, the Chief Veterinary Officer shall be authorized to order extraordinary veterinary measures, if
a) the veterinary administration authority upon performing checks at the place of destination or during the transport discover
1. the presence of agents, causing one of diseases listed in Annex No 3, zoonosis, another disease or another cause likely to constitute a serious hazard to animal health or human health, or if the products are found to come from a region contaminated with an agent of epizootic disease,
2. that animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products or products of animal origin do not meet the requirements laid down pursuant to this Act,
b) veterinary administration authorities discover in the territory of the Slovak Republic the presence of agents that cause one of diseases listed in Annex 3, zoonosis or another disease or any other cause likely to constitute a serious hazard for animal health or human health,
c) in case of general emergency measures at the level of the European Community, the veterinary administration authorities have been informed of the presence of agents that cause one of diseases listed in Annex No 3, zoonosis or another disease or any other cause that may constitute a serious hazard for animal health or human health in the territory of a Member State.
(2) If it is a matter of extraordinary emergency measures ordered according to paragraph 1 in the interest of public health protection, the Chief Veterinary Officer shall inform on them the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic.
(3) If a situation occurs referred to in paragraph 1, the Chief Veterinary Officer shall be authorized to
a) provide without any delay directly the competent natural persons and natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons or authorities in the territory of the Slovak Republic or abroad with information related to emergency situation,
b) request to ensure the fulfilment of measures, so as to avert serious hazard to animal health or human health.
(4) If the extraordinary emergency measures are ordered pursuant to paragraph 1 letter a),
a) consignors or their representatives or other natural persons, natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons responsible for products or animals shall be obliged to bear the costs of animal quarantine, slaughtering and destruction of animals or consignments of products of animal origin,
b) consignees shall be obliged to bear the costs of rejected consignments, storage of the goods, their use for other purposes or of their destruction.

Article 35
Veterinary Checks upon Import and Transit of Animals,
Hatching Eggs, Germinal Products
and Products of Animal Origin and Selected Products
of Plant Origin Originating in Third Countries

(1) Animals, hatching eggs and germinal products and products of animal origin being subject to import, shall be subject to a veterinary check to be performed at the border inspection posts. Also subject to such check shall be animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin originating in a third country upon transit to other third country through the territory of the Slovak Republic.
(2) Border inspection post shall mean any inspection site at the border of the territory of the Slovak Republic or at the border of the territory of any Member State determined and approved by the European Commission for purposes of veterinary check of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin, including animal by-products and selected products of plant origin originating in third countries. Approval and suspension of approval of border inspection posts shall be published by the Chief Veterinary Officer in the Bulletin.
(3) Animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin, including animal by- products and selected products of plant origin originating in third countries may enter the customs area of the European Community only via customs crossings at which a border inspection post is located, and
a) whose imports are not prohibited,
b) that meet all the requirements laid down pursuant to Articles 21 and 25,
c) have been subjected to veterinary check pursuant to paragraph 1.
(4) Customs office shall release animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, including animal by-products and selected products of plant origin into the free circulation customs regime, if a declarant provides the evidence that the requirements on animal health and human health as referred to in paragraphs 1 - 3 have been met and the products of animal origin intended for non-commercial purposes after fulfilment of the requirements pursuant to a special act¹²¹⁾
(5) Upon veterinary check of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin pursuant to paragraph 1
a) importers, carriers, natural persons and natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons responsible for the load, consignees and other operators shall be obliged
1. provide veterinary administration authority with information about the consignment,
2. convey imported animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin to the place of veterinary check and place them there during the performance of veterinary checks,
b) veterinary administration authorities shall carry out inspections and examinations, including possible laboratory examinations to verify
1. fulfilment of the requirements laid down pursuant to Articles 21, 22 and 25,
2. whether animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin conform to the data provided to veterinary administration authority and whether the animals and hatching eggs concerned are healthy and products of animal origin are safe,
c) veterinary administration authorities shall issue, produce and keep the documents, notices or necessary data on the consignment,
d) veterinary administration authorities shall used computerized systems of the European Community and shall inform each other within the Member States on imported consignments intended for the trade with the Member States.
(6) Based on the check performed pursuant to paragraph 1, the veterinary administration authority may order,
a) concerning animals, hatching eggs and germinal products,
1. placing of the consignment into a quarantine and determining its location,
2. the measures, in particular re-dispatch of the consignment upon justified suspicion that the veterinary requirements are not met,
3. seizure, killing or removal of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products, if re-dispatch of the consignment into a third country is not possible,
b) concerning products of animal origin,
1. re-import of the consignment of products of animal origin originating in a Member State that has been rejected by a third country, and the manner of further disposal of the consignment,
2. detention of a consignment released to the free circulation customs regime into the territory of the Slovak Republic without having been subjected to border veterinary control and its subsequent re-dispatch to the country of origin or destruction,
3. measures, in particular re-dispatch of the consignment upon justified suspicion that the veterinary requirements are not met and way of further disposal of the consignment, if re-dispatch to the third country is impossible,
c) further measures, if it is a matter of products of animal origin, which
1. form a part of traveller’s personal luggage and are intended for their personal consumption,
2. are sent as small consignments to private persons,
3. are intended for consumption by the crew and passengers and are on the board of the means of transport operating internationally,
4. are sent as trade samples or are intended for exhibitions, for special research studies or analyses,
d) concerning products of plant origin, the measures to prevent the spreading of infectious or contagious animal diseases.
(7) Products of animal origin intended to be imported or transited through the territory of the Slovak Republic shall originate in third countries from which their entry is not prohibited, and shall satisfy the requirements laid down pursuant to this Act and generally binding legal rules issued for its execution, provided they are intended for
a) another border inspection post in a Member State,
b) free zones, free warehouses or customs warehouses,
c) operators who directly supply cross-border means of sea transport.
(8) Costs connected with the execution of measures referred to in paragraph 6 letter a) and b) points 2 and 3 shall be borne by the consignor, consignee or their representative.
(9) If in the territory of a third country a disease listed in Annex No 3, zoonosis or another animal disease or any other phenomenon or circumstance liable to present a serious threat to animal health or public health or spreading is identified or if justified by another serious reason relating to animal health or public health, in particular as found by veterinary experts of the European Commission or based on the findings upon checks carried out at border inspection post of a Member State or if it is proved during any import or transit-related check that consignments of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products or the products of animal origin, including animal by-products and selected products of plant origin, may constitute a threat to animal health or human health, the Chief Veterinary Officer may, without any delay, order extraordinary emergency measures and may directly establish the necessary contact with the injured natural persons, natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons or bodies of state administration and self-government in the Slovak Republic or abroad, and shall inform the Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic about this fact.
(10) Customs authorities shall perform pursuant to special rules¹²²⁾ the check of pet animals and products of animal origin intended for non-commercial purposes that enter the customs area of the European Community from third countries.

Article 36
Certification of Animals, Hatching Eggs and Animal Products

(1) Certificates or other documents required for the certification of compliance with the veterinary requirements referred to in Article 3 in movement, transport, trade, export, import, transit or placing on the market of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products or selected products of plant origin may be signed by
a) official veterinarians if they have been authorized to do so by the Chief Veterinary Officer, or
b) other persons if they have been authorized to do so by the competent authority of the country of origin of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin.
(2) The person referred to in paragraph 1 may be authorized to sign the certificates, if
a) such person has for certification of veterinary requirements referred to in Article 3 a satisfactory knowledge of the respective generally binding legal rules in the veterinary field, as regards animals or products to be certified,
b) has been informed on principles which shall be complied with in issuing and confirmation of certificates,
c) is impartial,
d) submitted a declaration on word of honour that he/she does not have any income originating from animals or products he/she is to certify, or from holdings or establishments from which such animals or products originate as well as declaration on word of honour that he/she does not possess any knowledge of such income earned by persons living with him/her in the same household;¹²³⁾ remuneration for the performance of private veterinary activity according to special rule,⁷⁹⁾ shall not be considered an income originating from animals or products thereof,
e) is irreproachable; a person shall be considered irreproachable, if he/she has not been lawfully sentenced for an intentional criminal offence; irreproachability shall be proven by an extract from the Criminal Register not older than three months.
(3) The persons authorized to sign the certificates must not certify the data of which they have no personal knowledge or which cannot be officially verified by them.
(4) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall perform checks and take measures to ensure the reliability of certification. The Chief Veterinary Officer shall establish the principles governing the evaluation of impartiality and reliability of persons to be authorized to sign certificates.
(5) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall
a) keep records on persons authorized to sign certificates in a way ensuring the link between the person authorized with certification and the certificate signed by such person,
b) ensure the maintenance of copies of all issued and confirmed certificates during the period determined by the Chief Veterinary Officer.
(6) The wording of the certificate designated for certification of veterinary requirements shall be drawn up in the language understood by the person authorized in the country of origin to sign it; in case of a certificate signed in the Slovak Republic, it shall be in the state language and shall contain an unambiguous text at least in one of the official languages of the country of destination.
(7) Veterinary administration authorities shall carry out the checks and impose the measures to:
a) prevent the confirmation of false or misleading certificates, fraudulent production or the use of certificates for certification of veterinary requirements,
b) prevent the repetition of deficiencies or offences, if a person authorized to sign certificates has knowingly confirmed fraudulent certificate or knowingly confirmed a certificate with false data; confirmation of false data not being verified by a person authorized to sign certificates, despite his/her duty, shall be considered to be knowledgeable confirmation of false data,
c) prevent the repetition of an offence or other administrative delict, if a natural or a legal person either fraudulently produced of fraudulently used a false certificate, or has altered the issued and signed certificate.
(8) Veterinary administration authorities shall refuse to confirm a certificate to a natural or legal person, if such person committed any act under paragraph 7.

 

PART FOUR
OBLIGATIONS OF LEGAL PERSONS AND NATURAL PERSONS
IN THE VETERINARY FIELD

Article 37
Obligations of Owners, Keepers,
Dealers, Importers, Consignees,
Transporters, Sellers or Other Natural Persons or Legal Persons
Authorized to Dispose of Animals, Hatching Eggs or Animal Products

(1) An owner, keeper, dealer or importer, consignee, transporter, seller or other natural or legal persons authorized to dispose of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs and food business operators to which the veterinary requirements referred to in Article 3 shall apply, responsible for safety of foods of animal origin shall be obliged to
a) notify the veterinary administration authorities of the commencement, suspension and termination of their operation, in case of food business operators, notify the veterinary administration authorities according to Article 6 and 8 in a manner determined by the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the commencement, suspension and termination of their activity and each establishment under their control carrying out any stage of production, processing and distribution of products of animal origin with exception of retail establishments in providing catering services and retail establishments not performing production activities referred to in Article 41 paragraph 5 letter u) and v) and paragraph 6 letter d) and in which the official food control shall be performed according to special rule,⁶⁷⁾ and to ensure that the competent veterinary administration authorities always have available up-to-date information on establishment, including by notifying any significant change in activities and any closure of an existing establishment and to notify the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration of the slaughter of bovine or porcine animals for private domestic use,
b) provide necessary cooperation to the veterinary administration authorities, mainly
1. allow the performance of veterinary checks, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and pathogens, products of animal origin and selected products of plant origin, feeds and medicated feedingstuffs and medicinal products,
2. convey, transport and handle animals within identification controls, examination of animals, preventive vaccinations or eradication of animal diseases,
3. allow the veterinary administration authority access at all times to places where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and products of animal origin intended to be placed on the market, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs and veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported,
4. give the veterinary administration authority access during the day to places where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and pathogens, products of animal origin or selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported,
5. provide the veterinary administration authorities free of charge a necessary personal or material assistance in any handling which during the performance of veterinary checks, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and pathogens, products of animal origin, selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products they consider necessary,
6. provide the veterinary administration authorities with adequate material and technical conditions for performing the audit of good hygiene practice and other veterinary controls according to special rule¹²⁴⁾ and in case of slaughterhouses to provide to the veterinary administration authorities for the exclusive use adequately equipped lockable facilities, or if necessary with regard to the extent and a type of veterinary control, appropriate and adequately equipped rooms for performing the state veterinary activities, including rooms for performing trichinella examination.
(2) The persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall be further obliged to:
a) relating to animal disease controls and notification of diseases
1. notify without any delay the veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of any disease referred to in Articles 17 and 18, and diseases listed in Annexes 4 and 5, as well as a death of any animal, and to allow examination of such animal,
2. observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in case of occurrence or suspicion of the occurrence of diseases referred to in first point,
3. ensure the prevention, control and eradication of animal diseases according to Article 46 and to demonstrate the results of examinations to the competent veterinary administration authority,
b) relating to identification and registration of animals
1. ensure at his/her own expenses the identification of animals, registration of animals according to special rules,¹⁰³⁾
2. identify them at his/her own expenses, if labelling of beef and products thereof is concerned,
3. ensure at his/her own expenses the identification and registration of pet animals for which a pet passport has been issued, if the identification and registration of pet animals is concerned,
c) relating to the movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products
1. submit on request to the veterinary administration authorities certificates and documents, notify the competent veterinary administration authority of each suspicion of any disease listed in Annex 4, and where disease listed in Annex 5 that is subject to the National Eradication Programme is concerned, fulfil this obligation mutatis mutandis,
2. observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in case of occurrence or suspicion of occurrence of any disease listed in Annex 4, and where disease that is subject to the National Eradication Programme is concerned, fulfil this obligation mutatis mutandis,
d) relating to import of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products into the territory of the Slovak Republic from a third country, provide a foreign operator with respective model certificates,
e) relating to protection of animals
1. educate demonstrably the persons handling the animals to abstain from any act that might cause injury or any other damage to animal health or their unnecessary suffering,
2. accept the restriction or prohibition of the movement of animals, their placing on the market, seizure of an animal or its killing associated with the measures required for the animal protection,
3. not to accept whether from any direct supply or through a dealer an animal born in the territory of the Slovak Republic after 1 January 2003 or not to enable the entry of such an animal into his/her facility or establishment , if the requirements for protection of animals according to Article 22 are not complied with, except for a provable admission of an animal into an substitute care by the operator of a quarantine station or an animal shelter,
4. submit during the transport to the competent veterinary administration authority documents, permissions and certificates for transportation of animals,
f) relating to placing on the market of products of animal origin
1. give the veterinary administration authority an access at all times to all buildings, facilities, premises, installations or other infrastructures, the grounds and other premises used by food business operators, associated with the subject of the veterinary control,
2. make available any documentation and records under this Act and special rules,⁵⁾ considered necessary by the competent veterinary administration authority for judging the subject of the veterinary control,
3. enable the competent veterinary administration authority an access to all information, including computer systems and data media necessary for the exercise of veterinary controls,
4. submit to the competent veterinary administration authorities all documents, written materials, opinions and information necessary for purposes of veterinary controls,
5. notify the competent veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of occurrence of zoonosis or other disease or any other phenomenon or circumstance liable to present a serious threat to animal or human health and to provide the competent veterinary administration authority with all important information about facts or circumstances connected with safety of foods of animal origin and their traceability and hygiene according to special rules,¹²⁵⁾
6. observe the measures ordered by the veterinary administration authority relating to safety of foods of animal origin and their hygiene and take appropriate corrective measures according to results of own checks as well as results of veterinary controls,
7. stop the operation if the competent veterinary administration authority has withdrawn or suspended, by decision, an approval of establishment, by decision did not prolong conditional approval of establishment or did not issue decision on approval of establishment without any conditions and time restriction,
8. fulfil other obligations of food business operator in the interest of the protection of animal health and human health and compliance with hygiene requirements related to products of animal origin pursuant to Article 3,
g) upon import of products of animal origin into the territory of the Slovak Republic from a third country to provide the foreign operator with the respective model certificate to be used for the given kind of products of animal origin,
h) in order to prevent the use of certain prohibited substances
1. place on the market only such animals the products of which are intended for human consumption; if the animals have been treated with veterinary medicinal products, the established withdrawal period shall be observed lasting from treatment until slaughtering of animals or until obtaining the products of animal origin for the purposes of human consumption,
2.observe the measures for restriction of the trade in prohibited or unauthorized substances and medicinal products,
3. observe the suspension or withdrawal of authorizations issued following the use or manufacture of prohibited or unauthorized substances or medicinal products,
4. accept the placing of animals, prohibited substances, medicated feedingstuffs or medicinal products under the control of veterinary administration authorities pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if possession or suspicion of possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products is discovered,
i) relating to monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof in animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin
1. place on the market only animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin originating from animals to which no prohibited substances or medicinal products have been administered or which have not been treated contrary to Article 26,
2. not place on the market the animals treated with veterinary medicinal products that are not in compliance with the requirements referred to in special rule,⁶⁾ or if the prescribed withdrawal period lasting from treatment until slaughtering of animals or until obtaining the products of animal origin intended for human consumption has not been complied with,
3. not to accept in establishment or facility whether from any direct supply or through a dealer the animals or raw materials of animal origin for which the guarantee of compliance with the withdrawal period is not provable,
4. accept the placing of animals, prohibited substances and medicinal products, feeds or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if possession or suspicion of possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products is discovered,
j) relating to animal-by products
1. submit on request to the veterinary administration authority necessary certificates and documents,
2. observe the measures for restriction of the trade in products declared unfit for human consumption or unsuitable for feeding of animals or the ordering to destroy the products of animal origin which might present a serious threat to animal or human health,
k) relating to medicated feedingstuffs,
1. if necessary from the animal health aspect, animals shall be administered only such medicated feedingstuffs which comply with the requirements laid down pursuant to this Act and a special rule,⁶⁾
2. place on the market only medicated feedingstuffs prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Article 30 and in accordance with special rule,⁶⁾
3. accept the placing of animals, prohibited substances or medicinal products, feeds or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority pending the performance of appropriate measures, if possession or suspicion of possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products is discovered,
(3) Relating to trade in animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and pathogens and products of animal origin with Member States, the persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall be further obliged to
a) place on the market only correctly identified animals to which no restriction of their movement has been ordered by the veterinary administration authority for the reason of suspicion, occurrence or presence of disease listed in Annex 3 or for the reason of the ordering extraordinary emergency measures,
b) not to place in a holding or on the animal market the animals for which it is not possible to provide guarantees that they meet the requirements which may be required by the buyer,
c) not to accept whether from any direct supply or through a dealer such animals that are not correctly identified and for which the guarantee is not provable that these animals are not subject to any movement restriction for the reason of suspicion, occurrence or presence of disease referred to in Annex 3 or for the reason of the ordering extraordinary emergency measures,
d) not to accept into a holding, centre or for natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons or for animal market being classified as a holding, centre or natural person-entrepreneur and legal person or market free of certain diseases listed in Annex 4 or 5 such animals not providing health guarantees in accordance with such classification,
e) ensure based on the certificate or accompanying document that only animals meeting the requirements referred to in letters a) to d) are intended for trade or slaughtering
f) check prior to placing on the market the prescribed identification marks of animals, certificates or documents and notify the veterinary administration authority of all irregularities or discrepancies; in case of a change in animal health status, to isolate the suspicious animals until the veterinary administration authority has decided on their placing on the market,
g) notify in advance the veterinary administration authority of the expected date of arrival of animals or germinal products or animal by-products from a Member State and of the nature thereof,
h) keep all certificates or prescribed documents for the period specified by the veterinary administration authority and submit them to the competent veterinary administration authority, when the latter so request,
i) ensure that the products of animal origin intended for trade are obtained in compliance with this Act, checked, specially marked and labelled and accompanied with certificates or other prescribed documents until the final consignee,
j) ensure by continuous own checks that the products of animal origin intended for the trade satisfy the provisions of this Act,
k) ensure that the products of animal origin intended for trade satisfy the veterinary requirements according to this Act at all stages of production, storage, placing on the market and transport of products of animal origin,
l) to ensure an equal veterinary check of products of animal origin intended for trade with the Member States or for the national market,
m) accept the placing of animals or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority until appropriate measures are taken, if the possession of animals or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act is revealed.
(4) Upon import or transit of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin or animal by-products and selected products of plant origin from third countries, the persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall be further obliged to
a) submit to the veterinary administration authority on request the necessary certificates or documents,
b) notify one working day in advance the border inspection post where the animals are to be conveyed of the number, species of animals and the anticipated time of their arrival; the foregoing shall not apply where transit of animals is concerned,
c) convey the animals under the official supervision directly to the inspection site or to a quarantine, if requested by veterinary inspector of the border inspection post,
d) submit in advance information on transported products by their types, as well as their detailed description in a written or electronic form,
e) accept the placing of animals or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority, if the possession of animals or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act is revealed.
(5) Where veterinary medicinal products are concerned, the persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall be obliged to
a) observe any suspension or withdrawal of authorizations or approvals,
b) accept the placing of veterinary medicinal products under the control of the veterinary administration authority, if the possession of veterinary medicinal products not complying with the requirements of this Act and special rules,⁶⁾ is revealed, until appropriate measures are taken.
(6) Operator of an approved assembly centre or collection centre shall be obliged in trade to accept the placing of animals ordered by veterinary inspector according to Article 14 paragraph 2 letter a), if there are no animals in a collection centre or it is not proved that at time ordered by veterinary inspector there is a planned supply of animals.
(7) Costs connected with the placing of animals in an approved assembly centre or collection centre in trade according to paragraph 6 shall be covered by an animal transporter.
(8) Natural person – entrepreneur and legal person whose subject of enterprise is the purchase, sale, mediation of the sale, transport or assembly of dogs and cats shall be obliged to submit upon the veterinary control to the competent veterinary administration authority in movement of dogs and cats exclusively in the territory of the Slovak Republic a document on the registration of a transporter, a certificate on professional competence of a person performing transport of animals and a certificate of technical capability of the means of transport for transportation of animals.

Article 38

The provisions dealing with the obligations laid down pursuant to Article 37 shall apply also to legal persons, state administration authorities and territorial self-government and their employees and representatives who are authorized to dispose within their activities of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, pathogens, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin, feeds, veterinary medicinal products as well as to other persons authorized to exercise the tasks within the state administration or to their activities associated with the exercise of the state administration that are subject to the requirements provided for in this Act.

Article 39
Approval, Authorization and Registration
of Establishments, Facilities and Activity

(1) Natural person – entrepreneur or legal person disposing of animal by-products or engaged in their production or placing on the market, preparation, distribution and placing on the market medicated feedingstuffs shall be obliged to apply the veterinary administration authority prior to the commencement of such activity for approval of establishment or facility or for authorization of establishment, facility or activity.
(2) Veterinary administration authority shall either approve or authorize the establishment, facility or activity based on an application of a natural person -entrepreneur or a legal person according to paragraph 1, if the same meet the structural, technical, material, staffing and other conditions for the requested type and scope of activities laid down pursuant to special rules.¹²⁶⁾
(3) The application referred to in paragraph 1 shall include
a) business name, seat, company registration number if a legal person is concerned; name, surname, company identification number and place of enterprise if a natural person-entrepreneur is concerned,
b) the postal number of establishment, facility or place of performing the activity for which the approval or authorization is requested,
c) type and scope of activity to be carried out,
d) name and address of the person responsible for the activities referred to in paragraph 1,
e) other documentation proving the compliance with the conditions referred to in paragraph 2.
(4) If the veterinary administration authority or the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments ascertains that the establishment or facility meets the conditions referred to in paragraph 2, it shall issue the decision on approval of establishment, facility or authorization of activity. It is not possible to appeal against the decision on approval or authorization. A validly issued decision shall take effect as of the day of delivery of the decision on approval or authorization.
(5) If the bodies referred to in paragraph 4 ascertain that the conditions aforesaid in paragraph 2 failed to be met, they shall decide on rejection of the application for approval or application for authorization.
(6) The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 5 shall apply, mutatis mutandis also to the approval of border inspection posts, approval or authorization of control posts in transport of animals, animal markets, animal collection centres, insemination stations, embryo collection and transfer teams, places or facilities for cleaning and disinfection of means of transport intended for transport of animals or products of animal origin, mediation of the purchase and sale of animals, establishments for obtaining hatching eggs, one-day-old poultry, breeding poultry and commercial poultry, animal transporters, means of transport for transportation of animals exceeding eight hours, user establishments, breeding establishments for experimental animals and supplying establishments for experimental animals and establishments referred to in Article 7 paragraph 2 letter d) in forth point, approval of assembly centres for animals and for approval of experiments on animals and special authorization of collection centres and tanneries according to Article 8 paragraph 3 letter u).
(7) In the case of a change in the owner or user of an establishment, facility or natural person-entrepreneur or legal person who carry out activities under paragraph 6 occurring after issuing an approval or authorization, a new owner, user or person performing the activities shall be obliged to notify such fact to the veterinary administration authority, that decided on the approval or authorization of the establishment, facility or activity according to paragraphs 1 and 6. The competent veterinary administration authority following the control on the spot by which the fulfilling of requirements referred to in paragraph 8 is demonstrated, shall issue the decision to the new owner or user on an approval or suspension of the establishment, facility or activity according to paragraphs 1 and 6.
(8) The notification under paragraph 7 shall contain
a) business name, seat, company identification number if a legal person is concerned; name, surname, company identification number and place of enterprise if a natural person-entrepreneur is concerned,
b) postal number of the establishment, facility or place of performing the activity for which the decision on approval or authorization was issued,
c) name and address of the person responsible for the activities referred to in paragraph 1,
d) declaration on word of honour that it will perform the activities of the same type and to the same extent to what the decision on approval or authorisation for the previous owner or user of the establishment, facility or for natural person-entrepreneur or legal person carrying out the activities under paragrapth 6, has been issued,
e) officially certified document showing authorized use of the establishment,
f) up-to-date extract from the business register or trade register.
(9) In the case of substantial changes in the conditions of the establishment or facility on the basis of which the decision was issued or in the scope or type of performed activity occurring after issuing the decision on an approval or authorization, the owner, user or natural person-entrepreneur or legal person carrying out activities under paragraph 6, shall be obliged to submit an application according to paragraph 3 and undergo a new approval or authorization procedure.
(10) Upon the effective date of the decision on approval or authorization of the establishment, facility or activities, the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the Slovak Republic shall allocate an official number, based on the type of such establishment, facility or activity and providing for an unambiguous identification of the same. The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall notify in a written form without any delay a legal person or natural person-entrepreneur to whom the approval or authorization has been granted, of allocation of the official number and entering in the list referred to in paragraph 11.
(11) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall keep lists of establishments, facilities and activities referred to in paragraphs 1 and 6 that have been approved or authorized.
(12) Establishments, facilities or natural persons-entrepreneurs or legal persons authorized for the performance of activity, keepers, consignees of animals, hatching eggs, animal by-products at the places of destination in trade, transporters or other persons authorized to dispose of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin, whose activities are subject to veterinary controls in movement of animals and germinal products, trade in animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products and that are not subject to the provisions of paragraphs 1 to 6, processors of raw materials of animal origin not intended for human consumption and establishments according to Article 8 paragraph 3 letter s) shall be obliged to notify in advance the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the commencement and termination of their activity and to submit a copy of such notification to the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration. In such notification they shall indicate the data provided for in paragraph 3 letter a) to d), the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall keep records of the same.

Article 40
Registration of Food Establishments for Foodstuffs of Animal Origin

(1) Food business operators referred to in paragraphs 3 and 4 shall be obliged to ask the territorially competent District Veterinary and Food Administration for registration of each establishment being under their control.
(2) In an application for registration according to paragraph 1 the data according to Article 39 paragraph 3 letter a) to c) on individual establishments and the name, surname and address or contact to a person responsible for the hygiene of operations in each establishment and where appropriate to an employee responsible for supervision¹²⁷⁾ over persons handling foodstuffs of animal origin shall be indicated. The applicant shall indicate in compliance with paragraphs 3 and 4 the data on the type and extent of activity performed in the establishment for which the application for registration is submitted.
(3) Registration according to this Act and special rules¹²⁸⁾ shall be required for
a) establishments performing
1. only primary production,¹²⁹⁾ which shall mean for the purposes of this Act the production, rearing or growing of primary products¹³⁰⁾ of animal origin, including harvesting of primary products of animal origin, milking and farmed animal production prior to slaughter, as well as hunting, fishing and harvesting of wild products,
2. operations and activities associated with primary production such as transport, storage and handling primary products of animal origin at the place of their production, provided that this does not substantially alter their nature, transport of food-producing animals to a market, slaughterhouse or between farms, transport operations for supply of primary products of animal origin, the nature of which has not been substantially altered, from the place of their production to the first establishment of destination, in the case of fishery products and wild game,
b) primary producers directly supplying small quantities of primary products of animal origin directly to the final consumers or to local retail establishments directly supplying the final consumers,
c) primary producers directly supplying small quantities of meat from poultry and lagomorphs slaughtered on the farm to the final consumer or to local retail establishments supplying such meat as a fresh meat to the final consumer,
d) users of hunting ground,¹⁰⁶⁾ who supply small quantities of wild game or wild game meat directly to the final consumer or to local retail establishments directly supplying the final consumer,
e) retail establishments, except for facilities providing catering services that perform
1. exclusively only storage or transport of foodstuffs of animal origin and not performing operations for which the establishments shall be approved according to Article 41; the specific temperature requirements according to special rule ¹³¹⁾ shall apply to this storage or transport,
2. activities and operations according to Article 41 paragraph 5 letter u), however, they are only marginal, localised and restricted activity of retail establishment in question,
f) other retail establishments not performing production operation for which the approval according to Article 41 paragraph 5 shall apply and that can be registered according to this Act or according to special rule ⁶⁷⁾, except for facilities providing catering services,
g) entrepreneurs specialized for trade in foodstuffs, who provide mediatory operations and transport operations with products of animal origin between suppliers or for retail establishments.
(4) Activities according to paragraph 3 letter a) shall include:
a) production, rearing or growing of food producing animals and any associated activities such as transport of meat producing animals to a market, a slaughterhouse or the transport of animals between farms,
b) production, rearing or growing of snails at the farm, their transport to a market or to a processing establishment,
c) milking and the storage of milk at the farm,
d) production of eggs and their collection in premises of the primary producer,
e) fishing, handling and transport of fish caught in fresh water,
f) production, breeding, rearing and harvesting of fish intended for human consumption on aquaculture farms and their transport in the live state between farms or from the place of production to the first establishment of destination with the aim of placing on the market,
g) hunting, killing and evisceration on the spot of wild game, its transportation to game-handling establishment as well as preservation and collection of hunted wild game in a collection centre prior to its transport to game-handling establishment,
h) production, collection and wrapping and/or packing of honey at the bee-keeper’s premises.
(5) The competent District Veterinary and Food Administration shall record the application for registration and based on the data presented in the application for registration it shall develop and keep within its territorial competence in a determined form an update list of registered food business operators according to this Act and special rule⁶⁷⁾ It shall submit the data on registered establishments in a form and frequency determined by the State Veterinary and Food Administration.
(6) Food business operators of registered food establishments shall notify without any delay the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration of all significant changes in activities of establishments that it shall control according to this Act, including closure of an existing establishment, suspension or termination of its activity.

Article 41
Approval of Establishments
for Products of Animals origin

(1) Food business operators may place products of animal origin on the market only if they have been manufactured, prepared and handled in establishments that meet the relevant requirements according to special rule¹³²⁾ and have been approved or conditionally approved if required according to this Act and special rule.¹³³⁾
(2) Food business operators must not perform in establishments to which the requirement for approval according to paragraphs 1 and 5 shall apply, the respective activity unless the respective District Veterinary and Food Administration grant, after specially performed veterinary control (hereinafter „special control“) of the establishment a decision on approval for the respective activity or activities ¹³⁴⁾ or a decision on conditional approval of the establishment for respective activity or activities.¹³⁴⁾
(3) Food business operator shall submit an application for approval of each establishment, being under his/her control, for the respective activity or activities to the territorially competent District Veterinary and Food Administration.
(4) In an application for approval of each establishment the data according to Article 39 paragraph 3 letter a) to c) and the name, surname and address of a person responsible for hygiene of operations in establishment shall be indicated. An officially certified copy of an extract from the business register or trade register and an extract from a letter of ownership or rental contract of the establishment shall be attached to an application and prior to a special control performed for approval of the establishment or during such a control the operator shall submit to the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration further documentation as well as documentation confirming fulfilment of respective conditions and requirements according to special rules¹²⁸⁾ by a procedure determined by the State Veterinary and Food Administration according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter ag),⁴¹⁾. The data on type and scope of activity in the establishment for which an approval is required shall be indicated by an applicant according to paragraph 5.
(5) Approval according to this Act and special rules ¹²⁶⁾ shall be required for
a) slaughterhouses in which domestic ungulates, poultry, lagomorphs and farmed game whose meat is intended for human consumption; special facilities reserved for slaughtering of sick and suspicious ungulates and facilities for slaughtering of poultry on the farm,
b) meat cutting plants,
c) game-handling establishments,
d) collection of eggs from primary producers for supplying to egg packing centres, markets supplying exclusively to wholesalers, whose establishments are approved as egg packing centres or to food industry and egg packing centres, grading the eggs by quality or by quality and weight,
e) raw milk collection centres,
f) establishments manufacturing meat preparations, minced meat and mechanically separated meat,
g) establishments manufacturing meat products,
h) establishment handling fishery products,¹³⁵⁾ preparing them, mechanically separate, freeze, process or store under temperature-controlled storage conditions, except for operations referred to in Article 40 paragraph 3 letter a) and paragraph 4 letter f),
i) establishments in which
1. raw milk is processed into heat-treated milk and milk-based products are manufactured from raw milk, raw milk is manufactured for human consumption being placed on the market in the raw state,
2. milk-based products are manufactured from already manufactured processed milk-based products or products manufactured from raw milk,
j) establishments manufacturing egg products,
k) establishments preparing frogs´s legs and snails,
l) centres collecting raw materials for manufacture of rendered animal fats and greaves and establishments for their processing and for manufacture of rendered animal fats and greaves,
m) establishments treating bladders, stomachs and intestines,
n) establishments manufacturing gelatine,
o) establishments manufacturing collagen,
p) establishments performing collection and wrapping and/or packing of honey except for collection and wrapping and/or packing of honey at the bee-keeper’s premises according to Article 40 paragraph 4 letter h),
q) establishments of primary producers performing manufacture of milk-based products according to Article 40 paragraph 4 letter c) intended for sale to the final consumers on the farm or delivering to any establishments,
r) establishments performing unwrapping of products of animal origin from the wrapping and their re-wrapping into a new wrapping, and/or associated with other operations such as slicing, cutting or filleting, except for retail establishments according to Article 40 paragraph 3 letter e) of second point,
s) establishments for storage of products of animal origin requiring temperature-controlled storage conditions, except for stores being a part of retail establishments delivering foodstuffs of animal origin to the final consumers or retail branches only,
t) retail establishments, except for facilities providing catering services that perform production operations such as cutting up of meat, production of minced meat and meat preparations,
u) retail establishments, except for facilities providing catering services that perform activities and operations referred to in letters b) to t) for the purpose of delivery of foodstuffs of animal origin to other establishments and this delivery is not only marginal, localised and restricted activity of retail establishment in question
v) other establishments¹³⁶⁾
(6 Approval shall not be required for establishments and natural persons-entrepreneurs and legal persons performing only activities according to Article 40 paragraph 3 and 4 and further for
a) primary production for private domestic use of products of animal origin,
b) domestic preparation, handling or storage of products of animal origin for private domestic consumption,
c) preparation, handling or storage for purposes of direct supplying of products of animals origin to the final consumers on the spot in retail establishments providing catering services,
d) establishments manufacturing, preparing or handling only foodstuffs containing the products of plant origin and at the same time also processed products of animal origin ( hereinafter „compound foodstuffs“); processed products of animal origin used for preparation of such compound foodstuffs shall be obtained and handled in establishments approved or registered according to this Act and in compliance with requirements laid down pursuant to special rule,¹⁰⁾
e) establishments storing products of animal origin that do not require temperature-controlled storage conditions and stores for products of animal origin, performing wholesale activities limited only to preparation and storage, except for cool and frozen storage of meat.
(7) If the food business operator in a special control for an approval according to paragraphs 2 and 4 demonstrates that the establishment meets all relevant hygiene requirements according to special rules ¹²⁸⁾ and other respective requirements of food law, ⁹⁾ the District Veterinary and Food Administration shall issue the decision by which it shall approve the establishment for activities concerned.
(8) If the establishment based on the results of a special control according to paragraphs 2 and 4 fulfils all respective hygiene requirements for infrastructure, equipment and facilities, however it fails to fulfil other hygiene requirements according to paragraph 7 or a new establishment cannot still perform and introduce them, the District Veterinary and Food Administration may issue the decision on conditional approval of the establishment for the respective activities for a certain period of time, however not exceeding a total of three months.
(9) If during a following special control performed within 3 months from issuing the decision on conditional approval according to paragraph 8 the operator demonstrates to the District Veterinary and Food Administration that the establishment already fulfils all other relevant hygiene requirements according to paragraph 7, the District Veterinary and Food Administration shall issue the decision to the establishment by which it shall approve it for all respective activities without any conditions and time limit.
(10) If even at following special control performed within three months from issuing the decision on conditional approval according to paragraph 8 the establishment fails to fulfil certain hygiene requirements according to paragraph 7, however based on the result of such veterinary control it appears that the operator attained a clear progress in their fulfilling, the District Veterinary and Food Administration may, based on an application of the food business operator, issue the decision by which it prolongs conditional approval according to paragraph 8 in matters referring to still non-fulfilled requirements, however for a period not exceeding further three months so that a total period of conditional approval according to this provision and paragraph 8 does not exceed six months.
(11) There cannot  be no appeal against decision on approval; effects of valid decision shall come in force on the day of delivery of the decision on approval. There may be an appeal against the decision on conditional approval according to special rule.¹³⁷⁾
(12) The District Veterinary and Food Administration shall refuse, by the decision, the application for
a) approval of establishment according to paragraphs 3 and 4, if at a special control for approval in establishment it discovers that hygiene requirements referring to infrastructure, equipment and facility according to paragraph 8 are not complied with,
b) prolongation of validity of conditional approval according to paragraph 10, if an operator fails to demonstrate a progress in fulfilling of other hygiene requirements according to paragraph 10, or if he/she fails to demonstrate fulfilling of these requirements in periods determined by the District Veterinary and Food Administration in the decision according to paragraph 8 or paragraph 10.
(13) Provisions of Article 39 paragraph 7 and 8 shall be applied for notification duty in the case of a change in an owner or user of establishment. The competent veterinary administration authority shall issue to a new owner or user a decision on approval or suspension of establishment or activity according to paragraph 5. In the case of substantial changes in the hygiene conditions of the establishment or in the change of the scope or type of performed activity, the food business operator shall be obliged according to paragraph 2 to submit an application according to paragraph 4 and undergo a new approval of establishment or only its part related to changes in hygiene conditions of establishment or changes within the scope and type of performed activity.
(14) The State Veterinary and Food Administration shall allocate, after validity of the decision on approval or decision on conditional approval, to each establishment an approval number, to which codes may be added to indicate the types of products of animal origin, and shall enter the establishment into the respective list or lists according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter l) kept and made available to other Member States and to the public by the Chief Veterinary Officer according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter f) in a manner laid down pursuant to special rules.¹³⁸⁾
(15) The provisions of the paragraphs 1 to 14 shall also apply to
a) establishments that placed on the market products of animal origin according to special rule,¹³⁹⁾ however to which according to the present legal rules governing the veterinary requirements according to Article 3, a requirement for an approval did not apply,
b) establishments that placed products of animal origin exclusively on the national market immediately prior to application of special rule ³¹⁾ and that were authorized in compliance with veterinary requirements according to the present legal rules,
c) dairy establishments for milk treatment and dairy establishments for milk processing that process less than two million litres of milk per year, pack, store or otherwise handle the milk or milk-based products intended to be placed on the market, standardization centre and collection centres of raw milk in placing of such milk on the market, in export into the Member States and in the trade with the Member States that were approved in compliance with veterinary requirements according to the present legal rules.
(16) The provisions of paragraphs 1 to 5 and 7 to 12 shall not apply for activities of establishments approved for trade in products of animal origin with the Member States or for export of products of animal origin into the Member States according to the present rules, if they were in establishment immediately prior to application of special rule,³¹⁾ except for establishments according to paragraph 6 letter e), performing cool or frozen storage of the meat, and establishments according to paragraph 15 letter c).
(17) Establishments performing collection, supply and grading of eggs according to paragraph 5 letter d), shall be approved by the District Veterinary and Food Administration according to special rule,¹⁴⁰⁾ and such establishments shall use distinguishing numbers as identification marks according to this special rule.¹⁴¹⁾
(18) In approval of establishments manufacturing foodstuffs of animal origin with traditional characteristics,¹⁴²⁾ the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration may grant individual derogations from hygiene requirements.¹⁴³⁾
(19) Operators of the special sheep farm establishments -“salaš“ such as facilities being production farm and at the same time a dairy establishment for milk processing with manufacture of lumpy sheep cheese from a raw sheep milk, shall be obliged prior to each new season notify in advance the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration of commencement of their activity. They may execute this activity only after a control performed by the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration, if demonstrated that the establishment fulfils all requirements for infrastructure, equipment and facilities.

Article 42
Suspension and Withdrawal of Approval and Authorization

(1) If the veterinary administration authority discovers that a natural person-entrepreneur or a legal person referred to in Article 39 paragraph 1 fails to fulfil the conditions specified in Article 39 paragraph 2, or discovers other deficiencies in the compliance with veterinary requirements according to Article 3 or requirements according to special rules, ⁵⁾ and if the measures imposed by the veterinary administration authority for their removal have not been performed, it shall suspend, by the decision, an approval or authorization for a relevant type of activity until such deficiencies have been demonstrably removed, and at the same time it shall determine a period for their removal.
(2) If a natural person-entrepreneur or a legal person fails to remove the deficiencies within the specified period or if such person ceases to perform the activity for which the decision on approval or authorization has been issued, the competent veterinary administration authority shall withdraw, by the decision, the approval or authorization.
(3) In the case of processing plants for animal by-products, the veterinary administration authority shall suspend, by the decision, the approval or authorization without any delay.
(4) In the case of activities of producers or distributors of medicated feedingstuffs, the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments shall suspend without any delay, by the decision, the approval or authorization after identification of deficiencies.
(5) An appeal against the decision of the veterinary administration authority or the Institute for Control of Veterinary Medicaments on suspension or withdrawal of the approval or authorization shall not have a deferring effect.
(6) Upon taking effect of the decision on withdrawal of the approval or authorization, the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall take away the allocated official number from the operator and delete the same from the list referred to in Article 39 paragraph 11.

Article 43
Suspension and Withdrawal of Approval
of Establishments for Foodstuffs of Animal Origin

(1) In the case of establishments approved according to Article 41 or according to the present legal rules and establishments according to Article 41 paragraph 15 letter c), the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration upon performing veterinary controls according to this Act and special rules¹³⁸⁾ shall verify compliance with hygiene requirements according to special rule. ¹³²⁾
(2) If the District Veterinary and Food Administration upon performing veterinary controls identifies serious deficiencies in observation of hygiene requirements according to special rule¹³²⁾ or other serious breaking of food law or other requirements laid down pursuant to this Act and special rules ⁵⁾ or if it had to repeatedly suspend the production in establishment and a food business operator is not able to provide adequate guarantees or to observe the measures imposed by the District Veterinary and Food Administration, in the case of hygiene of further production or handling of products of animal origin, the District Veterinary and Food Administration shall initiate an administrative action towards the operator in the matter of withdrawal of the decision on the establishment’s approval and it shall withdraw, by the decision, an approval to the food business operator.
(3) If a food business operator can guarantee that he/she is able to remove deficiencies within the agreed time according to paragraph 2 or other deficiencies and the District Veterinary and Food Administration considers his/her guarantees adequate, it may, by the decision, temporarily suspend an establishment’s approval.
(4) An appeal against the decision on withdrawal of an approval or suspension of an approval according to paragraphs 2 and 3 shall not have a deferring effect. The food business operator shall be obliged to observe each withdrawal or suspension of establishment’s approval, issued by the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration.
(5) If a food business operator ceases to perform the activity for which the decision on approval has been granted, it shall notify without any delay the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration who shall withdraw an approval. The decision on approval shall be withdrawn also in the case, if the operator does not perform the relevant activity continuously for the period of 24 months.
(6) Upon taking effect of the decision on withdrawal of the approval, the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall take away the allocated approval number from the establishment and delete it from the list kept and made available to other Member States and to the public according to Article 41 paragraph 14.
(7) The provisions of paragraphs 2 to 6 shall apply also to establishments referred to in Article 41 paragraph 15 letter b) and c).

 

Article 44
Binding Opinion

(1) The binding opinion of the District Veterinary and Food Administration shall be requested for the application for a planning permission procedure, application for a building permit procedure and application for an occupancy permit procedure,¹⁴⁴⁾ where structures and facilities designated for following activities are concerned
a) breeding of animals,
b) manufacture, processing, treatment and storage of pet food,
c) preparation, manufacture, storage and distribution of medicated feedingstuffs,
d) storage, further processing and safe disposal of animal by-products.
(2) The binding opinion of the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall be sought
a) in the case of proposals for placing on the market, hitherto in the Slovak Republic or in other Member State not used machinery, technological equipment, packing materials, technological and working procedures in breeding or transport of animals, preparation of medicated feedingstuffs or if disposal and processing of animal by-products is concerned,
b) for the application for a planning permission, building permit and occupancy permission procedures,¹⁴⁴⁾ providing they relate to the buildings designated for the performance of border veterinary control,
c) to proposal for placing on the market new equipment, substances and procedures used for slaughtering or killing of animals, upon their introduction and putting into operation.
(3) The general rule on administrative action¹³⁷⁾ shall not apply for issuing a binging opinion according to paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 letter b).
(4) Veterinary administration authority shall give its opinion to planning schemes. The general rule on administrative action¹³⁷⁾ shall not apply to an opinion. In actions referred to in paragraph 1 and paragraph 2 letter b) the veterinary administration authorities shall be injured authorities.¹⁴⁵⁾

 

PART FIVE

REIMBURSEMENT FOR LOSSES AND COSTS
IN OCCURRENCE OF ANIMAL DISEASES AND FEES FOR PERFORMANCE

OF VETERINARY INSPECTIONS AND VETERINARY CONTROLS

Article 45

 

(1) If there is an occurrence in the territory of the Slovak Republic of any disease listed in the list referred to in Annex 1 of or a bee disease referred to in Annex 4, the owner of an animal shall be entitled to reimbursement for 100 %
a) of the costs incurred for killing the animals, destruction of their carcasses and/or products thereof, for cleaning, disinfection and disinsectization of holdings and equipment,
b) of the losses caused by killing the animals, or destruction of the products thereof, and for destruction of feeds and equipment that cannot be disinfected.
(2) The entitlement to reimbursement for the costs and losses according to paragraph 1 shall accrue, if the owner of animals
a) has fulfilled the obligation to notify the veterinary administration authority of suspicion of the animal disease,
b) complies with the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority prior to the occurrence or suspicion of the animal disease occurrence,
c) complies with the obligations for the control of animal diseases imposed according to this Act and special rules,¹⁴⁶⁾
d) has fulfilled the following ordered measures:
1. isolation of the holding from the time of suspicion of the disease,
2. killing of animals of susceptible species which are affected or contaminated with the disease or which are suspected of being affected or contaminated with the disease and destruction of their carcasses; in case of avian influenza, these measures shall apply also to the destruction of eggs,
3. destruction of contaminated feeds and contaminated equipment, where the latter cannot be disinfected,
4. cleaning, disinfection and disinsectization of the holding and equipment on the holding,
5. establishment of protection zones of the disease outbreak,
6. observation of the measures to prevent the spreading of infection,
7. observation of the period after killing and removal of the animals from the holding and before re-stocking of the holding.
(3) The reimbursement according to paragraph 1 shall be provided to the owner of animals by the Ministry according to special rule ¹⁴⁷⁾ upon his/her written application. The application shall be submitted within ten days of delivery of the notification on lifting of ordered measures at the latest, otherwise the proposal for reimbursement of costs and losses and expires.
(4) An Annex to the application according to paragraph 3 shall be
a) confirmation on the ordering the measures according to paragraph 2 letter d) issued by the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration,
b) confirmation of the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration on fulfilment of measures ordered according to paragraph 2,
c) turnover inventory of animals for a month, in which their killing was ordered, in case of subjects with double-entry bookkeeping,
d) confirmation demonstrating the costs for
1. killing of animals, loading of animal carcasses and their transport,
2. destruction of animal carcasses and products thereof,
3. cleaning, disinfection, disinsectization and deratization of holdings and equipment,
4. destruction of contaminated feedingstuffs,
5. destruction of contaminated equipment, in case it cannot be disinfected,
e) confirmation on value of animals calculated as the product of the weight of killed animals and market value according to animal categories,
f) confirmation on value of disposed feeds calculated as the product of the weight of disposed feeds and a price of feeds determined on the basis of a purchase price or in-house calculation,
g) number of banking account,
h) an extract from the trade register, not older than three months, in case of a legal person, or an officially certified copy of the certificate on entering into records of independent farmer and allocated identification number, in case of a natural person-entrepreneur,
i) confirmation on registration of animal holding kept in the Central Register of Animals according to Article 19 paragraph 1,
j) confirmation on value of disposed products of animals calculated as the product of a unit of measure of disposed products and a market price.
(5) If duration of ordered measures exceed one month, animal owner may be provided, based on his/her application for reimbursement of costs and losses according to paragraph 1, with an advance payment up to 30% of value of killed animals and provable incurred costs for their killing and disposal, within ten days of delivery of application.
(6) If the Ministry, based on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, decide on vaccination of animals against any of diseases of a list referred to in Annex 1, the vaccine and execution of vaccination shall be covered from the means of the state budget.
(7) In the case of the occurrence of Newcastle disease in the territory of the Slovak Republic, reimbursement of losses and incurred costs shall be performed according to paragraphs 1 to 4; the vaccine and vaccination shall be covered from the means of the state budget provided the Ministry, based on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, decide on reimbursement of costs for vaccination,
(8) If a zoonosis occurred in the territory of the Slovak Republic, the Ministry, based on the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer in the interest of public health protection shall decide on application of provisions laid down in paragraph 1 - 4.
(9) In emergency cases according to Article 34 paragraph 1 and Article 35 paragraph 9, veterinarians, who are directly managed according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter a) of first point, shall be provided with compensation for performance of professional veterinary activities necessary for eradication of a disease.
(10) Particulars on reimbursement of costs and losses according to paragraph 1 shall be stipulated by generally binding legal rule that shall be issued by the Ministry.

 

Article 46
National Program for Eradication of Animal Diseases

To prevent, control and eradicate the animal diseases listed in Annexes 4 and 5, the Ministry, acting upon the proposal of the Chief Veterinary Officer, shall approve the National Eradication Programmes.

Article 47
Fees for Performance of Veterinary Inspection and Veterinary Control

(1) The fees for performance of veterinary inspections and veterinary controls on which the particulars are laid down under special rule¹⁴⁸⁾, shall be obliged to pay
a) owners and keepers of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and animal by-products for a veterinary control performed according to Article 32 paragraph 2 to 6 at the place of origin upon their trading,
b) owners or users of establishments and facilities for production, processing and storage of products of animal origin according to special rule ¹⁴⁸⁾ for performance of veterinary checks, inspections and controls of products of animal origin,
c) importers or persons responsible for consignments of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin according to Article 21 and 25 for performance of veterinary control and inspection upon their import according to Article 35 at the border inspection post,
d) owners or keepers of food producing animals or processors of products of animal origin for veterinary control of animals, hatching eggs and products of animal origin in monitoring of substances and their residues according to Article 27.
(2) The level of fees for the performance of veterinary inspections and veterinary controls shall depend on actual costs incurred by the veterinary administration authorities for such veterinary controls and veterinary inspections. The scale of fees for the performance of veterinary controls shall be issued by the Government of the Slovak Republic through the order.
(3) The fees for performance of veterinary controls and inspections shall be the income of the state budget.
(4) If it has been discovered, based on analysis of an official sample according to Article 12 paragraph 2 letter h) that the products of animal origin, animal by-products or feeds fail to comply with the requirements of this Act, generally binding legal rules issued for its execution or special rules,¹⁴⁹⁾ the subject to be controlled shall be obliged to reimburse the expenditures associated with taking a sample and its analysis to the competent authority and shall be obliged to reimburse also the expenditures for all activities that exceed normal control activities, including taking and analysis of samples as well as other controls necessary for identification of extent of non-compliance with the veterinary requirements, verification of performed corrective action, demonstration of non-compliance with the veterinary requirements or its identification and sampling according to Article 15 paragraph 3.
(5) When the detection of non-compliance with the veterinary requirements leads to the necessity of performing veterinary controls that exceed the competent veterinary administration authority’s ¹⁵⁰⁾ normal control activities, the competent veterinary administration authority shall charge the operator responsible for the non-compliance with the veterinary requirements for the expenditures arising from the additional veterinary controls or the owner or keeper of the goods may reimburse them.
(6) All the expenditures for measures in case of non-compliance with the veterinary requirements according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter g) and paragraph 5 letter j), Article 7 paragraph 2 letter h) and l), Article 8 paragraph 3 letter d) and e), Article 14 paragraph 2 letter c) and e) and according to Article 34 and Article 35 paragraph 9 shall cover the operator responsible for the non-compliance with the veterinary requirements to the competent veterinary administration authority.

PART SIX

OFFENSES, PENALTY AND OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE DELICTS

§ 48
Offences

(1) An offence is committed by a person who
a) fails to notify without any delay the veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of disease referred to in Article 17 and 18 and disease according to Annexes 4 and 5 or an animal’s death and fails to allow its examination,
b) fails to observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in case of the occurrence or suspicion of the occurrence of disease listed in Article 17 and 18 and diseases listed in Annexes 4 and 5,
c) fails to ensure, at his/her own expenses the identification of animals, fails to notify the animal register operator and fails to notify any movement of animals, fails to keep an individual register of holding of animals subject to the identification and registration requirements,
d) in the case of movement of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products or animal by-products, fails to submit to the veterinary administration authorities upon request the certificates and documents, fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authority of each suspicion of any disease listed in Annex 4, or in the case of disease included in the national eradication scheme,
e) in the case of movement of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products fails to observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in the case of the occurrence or suspicion of the occurrence of disease listed in Annex 4, or in the case of the disease included in the national eradication scheme,
f) fails to refrain from any act that may cause injury or other damage, or suffering to animals, and fails to oblige the persons acting under his/her responsibility to refrain from any act that may cause injury, other damage or unnecessary suffering to animals,
g) fails to accept the restriction or prohibition on movement of animals, seizure of an animal or its killing with respect to the measures necessary for animal protection,
h) upon import of products of animal origin and animal by-products from a third country into the territory of the Slovak Republic, fails to submit to the foreign operator a relevant specimen of the certificate pertaining to the respective type of products of animal origin and animal by-products,
i) fails to observe the measures preventing trade in prohibited or unauthorized substances and products, fails to observe the suspension of the validity or withdrawal of the validity of all authorizations or official approvals by the veterinary administration authorities, which have been imposed as a result of the use or manufacture of substances or medicinal products prohibited or unauthorized according to this Act,
j) fails to accept the placement of animals, prohibited substances, medicated feedingstuffs or medicinal products under the control of veterinary administration authorities pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if the possession or suspected possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products is ascertained,
k) places animals or hatching eggs upon trading in animals and hatching eggs on the holding or on the animal market without any guarantee of the fulfilment of requirement based on holding classification requested by the buyer,
l) upon trading in animals and hatching eggs whether from direct delivery or through an dealer, accepts such animals that are not correctly identified and whose producer is unable to guarantee that these animals are not subject to any movement restriction due to the suspicion, occurrence or presence of disease listed in Annex 3 or due to the ordering the extraordinary emergency measures,
m) upon trading in animals and hatching eggs, accepts on the holding, centre or for a natural person-entrepreneur and a legal person or on the animal market being classified as a holding, centre or a natural person- entrepreneur and a legal person or the market free of any of the diseases listed in Annex 4 or 5, such animals not providing health guarantees in compliance with this classification,
n) upon trading in animals and hatching eggs, fails to notify in advance the veterinary administration authority of the expected date of arrival of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products or animal by-products from the Member State and of the nature thereof,
o) upon trading in animals and hatching eggs, fails to keep all certificates or prescribed documents for at least six months or for the period determined by the veterinary administration authority and fails to submit them to the competent veterinary administration authority upon request,
p) upon trading, fails to accept the placing of animals, hatching eggs or products of animal origin under the control of the veterinary administration authority, pending the adoption of respective measures, if the possession of animals, hatching eggs or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act, is discovered,
r) fails to submit to the veterinary administration authorities the necessary certificates or document upon import of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin or animal by-products and selected products of plant origin from third countries,
s) upon importation of animals and products of animal origin from third countries, fails to accept the placement of animals or products of animal origin under the control of the veterinary administration authority, it the possession of animals or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act, is ascertained,
t) obstructs or hampers the exercise of veterinary supervision, veterinary controls and inspections or other official acts within the framework of the veterinary administration or fails to perform the ordered measures within the specified period, or fails to perform the measure of the competent veterinary administration authority for the removal of deficiencies identified,
u) falsifies or alters documents, certificates and other instruments, issued by the veterinary administration authorities or official veterinarians and falsifies or unlawfully uses official stamps of the veterinary administration authorities or health marks,
v) abandons the animal with the intention of getting it off, fails to secure to take measures to avoid animal escape and its incidental or undesirable reproduction,
x) dopes an animal or administer to an animal psychotropic substance or chemical substance that might damage animal health or induce non-physiological responses or gives an animal feeds/foods containing substance or article that might cause pain, suffering of animals, or it might otherwise damage an animal, except for legitimate medical reasons and approved experimental reasons,
y) uses any stimuli, subject or device inducing pain, so that their using result in clinically evident injury or clinically significant negative changes in central nervous system or other organ systems of animal, intervenes into the animal birth in such a way that may result in an enhanced pain sensitivity or damage animal health,
z) sets an animal against the other animal, trains or tests an animal on the other or kills an animal without any adequate reason, except for derogations referred to in Article 22 paragraph 3 letter d),
aa) being an owner or keeper of an animal, fails to ensure, in case of susceptible species of carnivorae older than three month an antirabic vaccination and fails to ensure without any delay the veterinary examination of an animal that caused injury to human being,
ab) fails to fulfil the obligation associated with veterinary requirements according to Article 3 or the obligation laid down pursuant to legal act of the European Community,
ac) places on the market products of animal origin not complying with the requirements according to Article 23,
ad) fails to observe the obligations pursuant to this Act or ordered by the veterinary administration authority, fails to ensure the prevention, control and eradication of animal diseases according to Article 46 or fails to submit to the competent veterinary administration authority the results of examinations,
ae) fails to notify the veterinary administration authority of the commencement and termination of its activity; if the food business operator is concerned, fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authorities according to Article 6 and 8 in a manner determined by the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the commencement and termination of his/her activity and each establishment under his/her control carrying any stage of production, processing and distribution of products of animal origin, with exception of retail establishments in providing catering services and except retail establishments not performing production activities referred to in Article 41 paragraph 5 letter u) and v) and paragraph 6 letter d) and in which the official control of foodstuffs ⁶⁷⁾ shall be performed according to special rule⁵³⁾ and fails to ensure that the competent veterinary administration authorities always have available up-to-date information on establishment, including notification of any significant change in activities and of any closure of an existing establishment or fails to submit an application for registration of the establishment according to Article 40,
af) places on the market products of animal origin that are injurious to health or hazardous and fails to take actions according to special rule,151) and that have not been produced in the establishment according to Article 41, in case not related to establishments according to Article 40, or brakes the obligation laid down pursuant to Article 23,
ag) fails to notify the competent District Veterinary and Food Administration at least one working day in advance of the slaughtering of bovine animals for a private domestic use,
ah) upon identification and registration of pet animals, fails to ensure for his/her own expenses the identification and registration of pet animals to which an pet passport has been issued,
ai) accepts whether from any direct supply or through a dealer an animal born in the territory of the Slovak Republic after 1 January 2003, if the requirements for protection of animals according to Article 22 are not complied with, except derogations referred to in Article 37 paragraph 2 letter e),
aj) fails to comply with obligations according to Article 29,
ak) falsifies the identity of animals or falsifies the documents referring to identification and registration of animals,
al) fails to provide the competent veterinary administration authority during the transport with the documents, licences and certificates for transportation of animals.
(2) A penalty of up to 20 000 SKK may be imposed for an offence referred to in paragraph 1.
(3) A penalty of up to 40 000 SKK may be imposed for an offence referred to in paragraph 1, in case of emergency measures or other extraordinary measures.
(4) If within one year since entering the decision on imposement of a penalty into force, it comes to a repeated breaking of the obligations for which a penalty according to paragraphs 2 and 3 has been imposed, the veterinary administration authority may impose a penalty up to double the sums imposed in paragraphs 2 and 3.
(5) Offences referred to in paragraph 1 shall be dealt by the veterinary administration authority.
(6) Offences and their proceedings shall be subject to the general regulation on offences,¹⁵²⁾ unless this Act provides otherwise.
(7) Penalties imposed according to paragraphs 2 - 4 shall be an income of the state budget.

Article 49
Penalty

The veterinary administration authority may impose a penalty of up to 10 000 SKK, also repeatedly to such a person who fails to provide the veterinary administration authority during the veterinary control
a) with necessary cooperation, mainly by failing to allow the performance of veterinary controls, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal-by products and pathogens, products of animal origin and selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs and medicinal products,
b) with necessary cooperation, mainly by failing to convey, transport or handle animals within identification controls, examination of animals, preventive vaccinations or upon eradication of animal diseases,
c) with necessary cooperation, mainly by failing to allow them to enter, during daytime, the premises where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and pathogens, products of animal origin, animal by-products or selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported,
d) necessary personal or material assistance in any handling that the veterinary administration authority may consider necessary during the performance of veterinary controls, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products, products of animal origin, selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products.

Article 50
Other Administrative Delicts

A natural person-entrepreneur or a legal person is deemed to have committed other administrative delict, if
a) fails to notify the veterinary administration authority of the commencement and termination of its activity; if the food business operator is concerned, fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authority according to Article 6 and 8 in a manner determined by the State Veterinary and Food Administration of the commencement and termination of his/her activity and each establishment under his/her control carrying any stage of production, processing and distribution of products of animal origin, with exception of retail establishments in providing catering services and except for retail establishments not performing production activities referred to in Article 41 paragraph 5 letter u) and v) and paragraph 6 letter d) and in which the official control of foodstuffs shall be performed according to special rule⁶⁷⁾ and fails to ensure that the competent veterinary administration authorities always have available up-to-date information on establishment, including notification of any significant change in activities and of any closure of an existing establishment or fails to submit an application for registration of the establishment according to Article 40,
b) fails to provide the veterinary administration authorities with necessary cooperation by failing to allow the performance of veterinary controls, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products, products of animal origin and selected products of plant origin, feeds and medicated feedingstuffs and medicinal products,
c) fails to provide the veterinary administration authorities with necessary cooperation by failing to convey, transport or handle animals within identification controls, examination of animals, preventive vaccinations or upon eradication of animal diseases,
d) fails to provide the veterinary administration authorities with necessary cooperation by failing to allow the veterinary administration authorities to enter at any time the premises where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin, animal by-products and selected products of plant origin intended for being placed on the market, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs and veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported,
e) fails to provide the veterinary administration authorities with necessary cooperation by failing to allow them to enter, during daytime, the premises where animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and pathogens, products of animal origin, animal by-products or selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products are kept or transported,
f) fails to provide necessary personal or material assistance in any handling that the veterinary administration authorities may consider necessary during the performance of veterinary controls, examinations or inspections of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, animal by-products, products of animal origin, selected products of plant origin, feeds, medicated feedingstuffs or veterinary medicinal products,
g) fails to notify without any delay the veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of disease referred to in Article 17 and 18 and disease listed in Annexes 4 and 5 or an animal’s death and fails to allow its examination,
h) fails to observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in case of the occurrence or suspicion of the occurrence of disease listed in Article 17 and 18 and diseases listed in Annexes 4 and 5,
i) fails to ensure at his/her own expenses the identification of animals, fails to notify the animal register operator of this fact and fails to notify any movement of animals, fails to keep an individual register of holding of animals subject to identification and registration requirements,
j) fails to label beef and products thereof at his/her own expenses,
k) in case of movement of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products or animal by-products, fails to submit to the veterinary administration authorities upon request the certificates and documents, fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authority of each suspicion of disease listed in Annex 4, or in case of the disease included in the national eradication scheme,
l) in case of movement of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and animal by-products, fails to observe the obligations ordered by the veterinary administration authority in case of the occurrence or suspected occurrence of disease listed in Annex 4, or in case of the disease included in the national eradication scheme,
m) upon import of animals, hatching eggs and germinal products from a third country into the territory of the Slovak Republic, fails to submit to the foreign operator relevant specimen certificates pertaining to the respective species of animals, hatching eggs or germinal products,
n) fails to refrain from any act that may cause injury or other damage, or suffering to animals, and fails to oblige the persons acting under his/her responsibility to refrain from any act that may cause injury, other damage or unnecessary suffering to animals,
o) fails to accept the restriction or prohibition on movement of animals, their placing on the market, seizure of an animal or its killing with respect to the animal protection measures,
p) upon placing products of animal origin on the market, fails to submit the necessary certificates or documents to the veterinary administration authority upon request, fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of zoonosis or other disease or any other phenomenon or circumstance liable to present a serious threat to animal or human health or a threat to safety of foods of animal origin,
r) upon placing products of animal origin on the market, fails to observe the measures ordered by the veterinary administration authority, in particular the restriction of placing on the market of or trading in products declared unfit or unacceptable for human consumption or the ordering of destroying of products of animal origin that may present a serious threat to animal or human health or are unacceptable for human consumption,
s) upon import of products of animal origin from a third country into the territory of the Slovak Republic, fails to submit to the foreign operator a relevant specimen of the certificate pertaining to the respective type of products of animal origin,
t) places on the market animals whose products are intended for human consumption, which have been treated with veterinary medicinal products and where the withdrawal period from the treatment to the slaughter of animals or obtaining products of animal origin for the purpose of human consumption has not been complied with.
u) fails to observe the measures preventing trade in prohibited or unauthorized substances and medicinal products, fails to observe the suspension of the validity or withdrawal of the validity of all authorizations or official approvals by the veterinary administration authorities, which have been imposed as a result of the use or manufacture of substances or medicinal products prohibited or unauthorized according to this Act,
v) fails to accept the placement of animals, prohibited substances, medicated feedingstuffs or medicinal products under the control of veterinary administration authorities pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if the possession or suspected possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products according to Article 26 is ascertained,
w) places on the market animals or products of animal origin derived from animals that have been given prohibited substances or medicinal products or that have been treated contrary to Article 26,
x) places on the market animals that have been treated with veterinary medicinal products not complying with the requirements of special rule⁶⁾ or where the withdrawal period from the treatment to the slaughter of animals or obtaining products of animal origin for the purpose of human consumption has not been complied with.
y) accepts in establishment or facility whether from any direct supply or through a dealer the animals or raw materials of animal origin where their producer is unable to guarantee that the withdrawal period has been observed,
z) fails to accept the placing of animals, prohibited substances and medicinal products, feeds or products of animal origin under the control of the veterinary administration authority pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if the possession or suspicion of possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products in monitoring of certain substances according to Article 27 has been discovered,
aa) fails to submit to the veterinary administration authority on request the relevant certificates or documents relating to animal by-products,
ab) fails to observe the measures for restriction of the trade in products declared unfit for human consumption or unsuitable for feeding of animals or the ordering to destroy the products of animal origin which might present a serious threat to animal or human health,
ac) administers to animals medicated feedingstuffs not complying with the requirements laid down pursuant to this Act and special rule,⁶⁾
ad) places on the market medicated feedingstuffs that have not been prepared in compliance with requirements according to Article 30 and special rule,⁶⁾
ae) fails to accept the placement of animals, prohibited substances or medicinal products, feeds or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority pending the adoption of appropriate measures, if the possession or suspected possession of prohibited substances or medicinal products in preparation and use of medicated feedingstuffs has been ascertained,
af) places on the market the animals that are not correctly identified and where the veterinary administration authority ordered restriction on the movement due to the suspicion, occurrence or presence of disease referred to in Annex 3 or due to the ordering the extraordinary emergency measures,
ag) places animals or hatching eggs on the holding or on the animal market without any guarantee of the fulfilment of a requirement on the holding classification requested by the buyer,
ah) accepts whether from any direct supply or through a dealer such animals that are not correctly identified and whose producer is unable to guarantee that these animals are not subject to any movement restriction due to the suspicion, occurrence or presence of disease listed in Annex 3 or due to the ordering the extraordinary emergency measures,
ai) accepts into the holding, centre or for natural persons- entrepreneurs or legal persons or for animal market classified as a holding, centre or a natural person-entrepreneur or legal person or market free of diseases listed in Annex 4 or 5 such animals not providing health guarantees in accordance with such classification,
aj) fails to ensure based on the certificate or accompanying document that only animals meeting the requirements according to Article 37 paragraph 3 letter a) to d) are intended for trade or slaughtering.
ak) fails to check prior to placing on the market prescribed identification marks of animals, certificates or documents and fails to notify the veterinary administration authority of all irregularities or discrepancies; and in case of changes in animal health status fails to isolate the suspicious animals until the veterinary administration authority has decided on them,
al) fails to notify in advance on request the veterinary administration authority of the expected date of arrival of animals or germinal products or animal by-products from a Member State and of the nature thereof,
am) fails to keep all certificates or prescribed documents for the period specified by the veterinary administration authority and fails to submit them to the competent veterinary administration authority, when the latter so request,
an) fails to ensure that the products of animal origin intended for trade are obtained, checked, specially marked with health or identification marks and labelled according to this Act, and accompanied with certificates or other prescribed documents until the final consignee,
ao) fails to ensure by continuous own checks that the products of animal origin intended for the trade and placing on the market satisfy the provisions of this Act,
ap fails to ensure that the products of animal origin intended for trade and placing on the market satisfy the veterinary requirements according to this Act at all stages of production, storage, placing on the market and transport of products of animal origin,
ar) fails to ensure an equal veterinary check of products obtained according to this Act intended for trade with the Member States or for the national market,
as) fails to accept the placing of animals or products of animal origin under the control of veterinary administration authority until appropriate measures are taken, where the possession of animals or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act has been revealed.
at) upon import of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products and products of animal origin or animal by-products and selected products of plant origin from third countries, fails to submit necessary certificates or documents to the veterinary administration authorities,
au) fails to notify one working day in advance the border inspection post where the animals are to be conveyed of the number, species of animals and the anticipated time of their arrival;
av) fails to convey the animals imported from third countries directly to the inspection site or to a quarantine, if requested so by the veterinary inspector of the border inspection post,
aw) upon import of germinal products and products of animal origin or animal by-products and selected products of plant origin, fails to submit in advance information on transported products by their types, as well as detailed description or description of transported products in a computer form.
ax) upon import of animals or products of animal origin from third countries, fails to accept the placing of animals or products of animal origin under the control of the veterinary administration authority, where the possession of animals or products of animal origin not complying with the requirements of this Act has been revealed.
ay) fails to observe suspension or withdrawal of all authorizations or approvals related to veterinary medicinal products granted by the authority competent for their issuing,
az) fails to accept the placing of veterinary medicinal products under the control of veterinary administration authority pending the adoption of necessary measures, if the possession of veterinary medicinal products not complying with the requirements of this Act and special rule⁶⁾ has been revealed.
ba) obstructs or hampers the exercise of veterinary supervision, veterinary controls and inspections, fails to perform the measure ordered by the veterinary administration authority within the specified period or the measure for the removal of deficiencies identified,
bb) falsifies or alters documents, certificates and other instruments, issued by the veterinary administration authorities or official veterinarians,
bc) falsifies or unlawfully uses official stamps of the veterinary administration authorities or health marks and identification marks,
bd) uses an animal as a price or premium in competition, uses an animal in artistic production or advertising without notifying the locally competent veterinary administration authority or advertises cruelty and abuse to/of animals,
be) sets animal against the other animal, trains an animal or exercises it on the other animal or kills an animal without any legitimate reason, except for derogations referred to in Article 22 paragraph 3 letter d),
bf) abandons an animal with the intention of getting it off, fails to secure the measures to avoid animal escape and its incidental or undesirable reproduction,
bg) dopes an animal or administers to an animal a psychotropic substance or chemical substance that might damage animal health or induce non-physiological responses, or gives an animal feeds/foods containing substance or article that might cause pain, suffering or might otherwise damage an animal, except for authorized medical reasons and approved experimental reasons,
bh) uses any stimuli, subject or device inducing pain so that their using result in clinically evident injury or clinically significant negative changes in central nervous system or other organ systems of animal, intervenes into the animal birth in such a way that may result in an enhanced pain sensitivity or damage animal health,
bi) fails to fulfil an obligation in the veterinary field associated with veterinary requirements according to Article 3 or an obligation laid down pursuant to legal act of the European Community,
bj) places on the market products of animal origin that are or have been produced, processed, packaged and stored or handled in establishment not approved, conditionally approved or authorized for such activity,
bk) places on the market products of animal origin obtained, processed and produced from animals or raw materials not complying with health and hygiene requirements and were not subject to veterinary control,
bl) places on the market products of animal origin that are not marked by a health mark or an identification mark,
bm) fails to provide the veterinary administration authorities with adequate material and technical conditions for performing the audit of good hygiene practice and other veterinary controls according to special rule¹¹¹⁾ and in case of slaughterhouses fails to provide for the exclusive use the veterinary administration authorities with adequately equipped lockable facilities or if necessary with regard to the extent and a type of veterinary controls, appropriate and adequately equipped rooms for performing their state veterinary activities, including rooms for performing trichinella examinations.
bn upon identification and registration of pet animals, fails to ensure at his/her own expenses the identification and registration of pet animals for which a pet passport has been issued,
bo) accepts whether from any direct supply or through a dealer an animal born in the territory of the Slovak Republic after 1 January 2003 or enables the entry of such an animal into his/her facility or establishment, if the requirements for protection of animals according to Article 22 have not been complied with, except for derogations referred to in Article 37 paragraph 2 letter e),
bp) fails to give the veterinary administration authorities an access at all times to all buildings, facilities, premises, installations or other infrastructures, the grounds and other premises of food business operators, associated with the subject of the veterinary control,
br) fails to make available any documentation and records under this Act and special rules,⁵⁾ or considered necessary by the competent veterinary administration authority for judging the subject of the veterinary control,
bs) fails to enable the competent veterinary administration authority an access to all information, including computer systems and data media necessary for the exercise of veterinary controls,
bt) fails to provide the competent veterinary administration authorities with all documents, written materials, opinions and information necessary for purposes of veterinary controls,
bu) fails to notify the competent veterinary administration authority of any suspicion of zoonosis or other disease or any other phenomenon or circumstance liable to present a serious threat to animal or human health and fails to provide the competent veterinary administration authority with all important information about facts or circumstances connected with safety of foods of animal origin and their traceability and hygiene according to special rules,¹²⁵⁾
bv) fails to observe the measures ordered by the veterinary administration authority relating to safety of foods of animal origin and their hygiene and fails to take appropriate corrective measures according to results of own checks as well as results of veterinary controls,
bx) fails to cease the operation, if the competent veterinary administration authority withdrawn or suspended an approval or in case of conditional approval did not prolong its validity or did not grant unconditional approval,
by) fails to fulfil other obligations of food business operator in the interest of animal health protection, public health protection and compliance with hygiene requirements related to products of animal origin pursuant to Article 3,
bz) fails to observe the obligations laid down pursuant to this Act or ordered by the veterinary administration authority, fails to ensure the prevention, control and eradication of animal diseases
according to Article 46 or fails to submit the results of examinations to the competent veterinary administration authority,
ca) fails to comply with obligations to ensure the prevention, control and eradication of animal diseases according to Article 46 and to demonstrate the results of examinations to the competent veterinary administration authority,
cb) fails to notify any changes, closure or termination of the establishment’s activity according to Article 37 paragraph 1 letter a), Article 39 paragraph 12, Article 40 paragraph 6 and Article 41 paragraph 13,
cc) issues a pet passport, if he/she is not a private veterinary surgeon authorized for issuing pet passports according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter g),
cd) fails to accept being an operator of an approved assembly centre or collection centre upon trade the placing of animals ordered by veterinary inspector according to Article 14 paragraph 2 letter a)
ce) fails to submit upon the veterinary control, if a subject of enterprise is purchase, sale, mediation of the sale, transport or assembly of dogs and cats in movement of dogs and cats exclusively in the territory of the Slovak Republic a document on the registration of transporter, a certificate on professional competence of a person performing transport of animals or a certificate of technical capability of the means of transport for transportation of animals.
cf) being a private veterinary surgeon fails to fulfil the obligations according to Article 13,
cg) fails to fulfil the obligations according to Article 29,
ch) falsifies or alters trade documents or official documents or health certificates related to processing or disposal of animal-by-products,
ci) falsifies an animal identity of falsifies documents related to identification and registration of animals,
cj) fails to provide the competent veterinary administration authority during the transportation the documents, authorizations and certificates for animal transportation.

Article 51

(1) The competent veterinary administration authority shall impose on a natural person-entrepreneur or a legal person a penalty of up to
a) from 10 000 SKK to 100 000 SKK, if he commits an administrative delict according to Article 50 letter a), c), f), i), j), m), s), t), aa), aj), al), am), an), ar), at), aw), ay), av), ba), cd) and cj),
b) from 100 000 SKK to 500 000 SKK, if he commits and administrative delict according to Article 50 letter b), d), k), l), n), o), ag), ai), az), bd), bi), cc), ce), cf), cg) and ch),
c) from 500 000 SKK to 1 000 000 SKK, if he commits an administrative delict according to Article 50 letter e), u), x), y), ac), ad), ae), ah), ak), au), ao), ap), as), ax), bb), bc), be), bf), bg), bh), bk), bl), bm), bn), bo), bp), br), bs), bt), bu), bv), bx), by), bz), ca), cb) and ci),
d) from 1 000 000 SKK to 5 000 000 SKK, if he commits an administrative delict according to Article 50 letter g), h), p), r), v), w), z), ab), af) and bj).
(2) In the decision on imposing a penalty, the veterinary administration authority may also set a time limit for removing the ascertained deficiencies; if the deficiencies are not removed within this time limit, the veterinary administration authority shall impose a penalty from 50 000 SKK to 5 000 000 SKK.
(3) If obligations in respect to which a penalty has been imposed according to paragraph 1 are again violated within one year of the effective date of the decision on the imposition of a penalty, the veterinary administration authority may impose a penalty of up to double the amounts referred to in paragraph 1.
(4) When imposing a penalty, in particular the relevance, manner, duration and possible consequences of the illegal action shall be taken into account. When assessing the relevance of the illegal action, the veterinary administration authority shall consider its nature, possible impact on animal health, human health or protection of animals, as well as other factors, mainly repeated violation of this Act.
(5) A penalty may be imposed within one year of the date when the competent veterinary administration authority ascertained the violation or failure to fulfil the obligations, but not later than within three years of the date of the act establishing the right to impose a penalty.
(6) Penalties imposed according to paragraphs 1- 3 shall be an income of the state budget.

PART SEVEN
COMMON, TRANSITORY AND FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 52

The general rules on administrative action shall not apply to
a) issuing lists according to or based on this Act,
b) ordering and lifting the measures according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter ad), Article 6 paragraph 5 letter j), Article 7 paragraph 2 letter l) and Article 8 paragraph 3 letter e),
c) announcing, approval and publishing of contingency plans,
d) information in systems for identification and registration of animals,
e) allocation of official numbers and approval numbers according to and on this Act,
f) specific labelling of products of animal origin with health marks and deciding on their fitness and acceptability for human consumption,
g) sampling,
h) extraordinary emergency measured ordered in the event of identifying the agents of animal diseases, zoonoses or in suspicion thereof or in the event of identifying other causes that may present a serious threat to animal health or human health and for lifting these measures according to Article 34 and Article 35 paragraph 9,
i) prohibition on entry of animals, hatching eggs, germinal products, products of animal origin and selected products of plant origin into the territory of the Slovak Republic as well as the ordering the quarantine, measures in case of the rejection of consignments upon imports from third countries or if there is a suspicion that the veterinary requirements are not observed upon the importation,
j) performing veterinary certification according to this Act, issuing official confirmations and documents on veterinary controls, inspections and other official acts according to and based on this Act,
k) authorizing official veterinarians according to this Act,
l) certificates and issued results of examinations, analyses, laboratory diagnoses, examinations and tests for residues,
m) ordering of measures according to Article 14 paragraph 2,
n) ordering of measures according to Article 6 paragraph 5 letter a) of second point,
o) review of guides according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter ac), deciding on a way of evidence according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter ag) and taking of measures according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter aj),
p) collection of fees and reimbursement of expenditures according to Article 47.

Article 53

The generally binding legal rule, issued by the Ministry, shall stipulate the details on
a) organization, way and forms of postgraduate education of veterinarians exercising state veterinary activities, requirements for qualifications and further education of persons with professional competence and further employees of the veterinary administration authorities and state veterinary laboratories,
b) protection of pet animals and requirements on quarantine stations and animal shelters,
c) protection of wildlife and requirements on lairage of wildlife.

Article 54

(1) Valid decisions of the veterinary administration authorities on authorization of establishments that process, pack, store or otherwise handle products of animal origin intended to be placed on the national market in the Slovak Republic, issued according to the present rules, shall remain valid until entering into force new decisions on approval or conditional approval of establishments or decisions on rejection of the application on approval according to Article 41, no later than till 31 December 2009.
(2) Valid decisions of the veterinary administration authorities on authorization or approval of establishments that process, store or otherwise handle foods containing both products of plant origin and also processed products of animal origin, ¹⁵³⁾ establishments that store products of animal origin not requiring temperature-controlled storage conditions and stores of products of animal origin performing wholesale activities limited only for transportation and storage, except for cool and frozen storage of meat,¹⁵⁴⁾ establishments for production of live fish from aquaculture intended for human consumption upon placing on the market, issued according to the present rules, shall remain in force till 30 June 2007.
(3) Valid decisions of the veterinary administration authorities on approval of dairy establishments for milk treatment and dairy establishments for milk processing that process less than two million litres of milk per year, pack, store or otherwise handle the milk and milk-based products intended to be placed on the market, and standardization centres and collection centres of raw milk in placing on the market, in export into the Member States and in the trade with the Member States, issued according to the present rules, shall remain valid until entering into force a decision on approval, conditional approval or decision on rejection of the application on approval according to Article 41, no later than till 31 December 2007.
4) Valid decisions of the veterinary administration authorities on approval of production farms for obtaining sheep milk, issued according to the present rules, shall remain valid till 31 December 2007.
(5) Valid decisions of the veterinary administration authorities on approval of animal transporters, issued according to the present rules, shall remain valid till 4 February 2007.
(6) Food business operators to whose establishments Article 41 paragraph 15 letter a) and c) shall apply, shall be obliged to ask for approval of an establishment till 31October 2007.
(7) Food business operators to whose establishments Article 41 paragraph 15 letter b) shall apply, shall be obliged to ask for approval of an establishment till 31 October 2009.
(8) Food business operators whose establishments shall subject to registration according to Article 40 and who performed their activity before effectiveness of this Act, shall be obliged to submit an application for registration according to Article 40 till 30 June 2007.
(9) An action on approval, suspension and withdrawal of the validity of establishment’s approval for products of animal origin commenced before 1 February 2007 by the State Veterinary and Food Administration shall complete the locally competent District Veterinary and Food Administration.
(10) The State Veterinary and Food Administration may designate non-accredited official laboratories till 31 December 2009, fulfilling the conditions laid down pursuant to special rule ¹⁵⁵⁾ for performance of analyses of official samples taken as a part of ante-mortem and post-mortem inspections¹⁵⁶⁾.
(11) The District Veterinary and Food Administration may authorize, in exceptional cases, till 31 December 2009, the testing of Trichinella in pig meat using trichinoscopic method according to special rule ¹⁵⁷⁾
(12) For purposes of keeping and publishing the lists according to Article 6 paragraph 2 letter l) the injured natural person ¹⁵⁸⁾ shall provide the veterinary administration authority with the following personal data:
a) name and surname,
b) date of birth,
c) legal residence.
(13) The competent veterinary administration authority may publish the personal data according to paragraph 12 for the purposes of providing information to public.

 

Article 55

By this Act the legal acts of the European Communities and the European Union referred to in Annex 8 shall be transposed.

Article 56

 

and the following :

1. Article I of Act No 488/2002 Coll. on veterinary care and on amendments to some laws as amended by Act No 245/2003 Coll., Act No 472/2003 Coll., Act No. 442/2004 Coll. and Act No 479/2005 Coll.,
2. Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 281/2003 Coll. on public health conditions for the production and marketing of fresh meat as amended by Ordinance No 490/2003 Coll., Ordinance No 283/2004 Coll. and Ordinance No 61/2005 Coll.,
3. Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 282/2003 Coll. on public health conditions for the production and placing on the market of fresh poultrymeat as amended by Ordinance No 398/2004 Coll.,
4. Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 729/2002 Coll. for the placing on the market of bovine somatotrophic hormone,
5. Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 317/2003 Coll. concerning the requirements for the production and placing on the market of minced meat and meat preparations as amended by Ordinance No 446/2004 Coll.

shall be repealed.

Article 57

This Act shall enter into force on 1 February 2007.

Ivan Gašparovič s.m.

Pavol Paška s.m.

Robert Fico s.m.

 

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1) Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (OJ L 139 dated 30/04/2004) as amended.
2) Article 2, paragraph 1, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption (OJ L 273 dated 10/10/2002) as amended.
3) Article 1, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare rules (OJ L 165 dated 30/04/2004) as amended.
4) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 320/2003 Coll. on monitoring of certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products as amended.
5) For example, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 (OJ L 204 dated 11/08/2000) as amended, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1825/2000 of 25 August 2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the labelling of beef and beef products (OJ L 216 dated 26/08/2000) as amended, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs (OJ L 139 dated 30/04/2004), Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals and amending Council Directive 92/65/EEC (OJ L 146 dated 16/06/2003) as amended, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ L 147 dated 31/05/2001) as amended, Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ L 5 dated 09/01/2004), Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 (OJ L 3 dated 05/01/2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073 of 15 November 2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs (OJ L 338 dated 22/12/2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down implementing measures for certain products under Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and for the organisation of official controls under Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, derogating from Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 (OJ L 338 dated 22/12/2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down specific rules on official controls for Trichinella in meat (OJ L 338 dated 22/12/2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005 of 5 December 2005 laying down transitional arrangements for the implementation of Regulations (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 (OJ L 338 dated 22/12/2005), Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 626/2004 Coll. on the monitoring zoonosis and zoonotic agents, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2065/2001 of 22 October 2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 as regards informing consumers about fishery and aquaculture products (OJ L 278 dated 23/10/2001) as amended, Council Regulation (EEC) No 1907/1990 of 26 June 1990 on certain marketing standards for eggs (OJ L 173 dated 06/07/1990) as amended.
6) Act No. 140/1998 Coll. on medicines and health aids, on amendment of trade licensing Act No. 455/1991 Coll. as amended, and on amendment and supplementation of the Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 220/1996 Coll. on advertising as amended.
7) Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Article 2 letter a) of Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 292/2002 Coll. concerning the details of veterinary checks applicable in intra-Community trade in animal products; Article 2 letter a) of Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 292/2003 Coll. concerning veterinary checks applicable in intra-Community trade in live animals and animal products; Article 2, paragraph 1, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption (OJ L 139 dated 30/04/2004) as amended.
8) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Article 1, paragraph 1, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
9) Article 3, paragraph 1 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31 dated 01/02/2002) as amended.
10) For example, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
11) Article 2, paragraph 16 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
12) Act No. 271/2005 Coll. on the manufacture, placing on the market and use of feedingstuffs (Act on Feedingstuffs).
13) Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Commission Regulation (EC) No 1825/2000.
14) Act No. 199/2004 Coll. – the Customs Act – and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws as amended.
15) For example, Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 42/1994 Coll. on civil protection of the population as amended.
16) Article 4, paragraph 3 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
17) Article 7, paragraph 1 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
18) Articles 41 to 43 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
19) Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
20) Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
21) Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
22) Article 5, paragraph 6 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
23) Article 5, paragraph 3 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
24) Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
25) Annex III, Section IV, Chapter I, and point 5 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
26) Act No. 523/2004 Coll. on budgetary rules for public administration and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws as amended.
27) Act No. 312/2001 Coll. on state service and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws as amended.
28) Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 10/1996 Coll. on inspection in state administration as amended.
29) Article 4, paragraph 6 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
30) Articles 54 and 55 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
31) Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
32) Article 3, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
33) Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005.
34) Annex IV to Commission Regulation (EC) No 136/2004 of 22 January 2004 laying down procedures for veterinary checks at Community border inspection posts on products imported from third countries.
35) Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Annex I, Section III, and Chapter IV of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
36) Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 152/1995 Coll. on foodstuffs as amended; Act No. 140/1998 Coll.; Act No. 271/2005 Coll.
37) Commission Decision of 26 November 2003 establishing a model passport for the intra-Community movements of dogs, cats and ferrets (OJ L 312 dated 27/11/2003).
38) For example, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 280/2003 Coll. on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine as amended by Ordinance No. 487/2003 Coll.; Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 302/2003 Coll. laying down the details of the protection of animals during transport as amended by Ordinance No. 145/2005 Coll.
39) Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
40) Article 8, paragraph 3 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
41) Article 5, paragraph 4 of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
42) Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
43) Article 3, paragraph 3 of Council Decision 90/424/EEC of 26 June 1990 on expenditure in the veterinary field (OJ L 224 dated 18/08/1990).
44) Article 34, paragraph 4 of Council Decision 90/424/EEC.
45) Article 35, paragraph 1 and 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No. 274/2003 Coll. on mutual assistance between the authorities of veterinary administration, the public administration authorities in the zootechnical field and the authorities of the Member States of the European Union and on cooperation between them and the European Commission to ensure the correct application of legislation on veterinary and zootechnical matters.
46) Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
47) Article 8, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
48) Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
49) Annex II, point B of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
50) Annex I, point 3.2. of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005.
51) Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
52) Act No. 515/2003 Coll. on regional and district offices and on amendments and supplements to certain laws as amended by the judgment of the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic No. 263/2006 Coll.
53) For example, Commission Decision of 16 October 2000 laying down the animal health requirements and the veterinary certification for the import of birds, other than poultry and the conditions for quarantine (OJ L 278 dated 31/10/2000); Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
54) Article 4, paragraph 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
55) Article 7, paragraph 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005.
56) Annex III, Section I, Chapter VII, point 3 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
57) Annex III, Section II, Chapter VI of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
58) Annex III, Section III of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
59) Annex III, Section VIII, Chapter VIII, point 2 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
60) Annex III, Section IX, Chapter I, point II.B.4., letter b) and Chapter II, point I.2., letter b) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
61) Annex I, Section I, Chapter III, point 7 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
62) Annex I, Section IV, Chapter IV, point A and Chapter V, point A of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
63) Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 1521995 Coll. as amended; Act No. 271/2005 Coll.
64) Annex III, Section IV of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
65) Article 2, paragraph 1, letter h) of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
66) Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Article 4 to 8 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
67) Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No. 1521995 Coll. as amended.
68) Article 14 of Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 280/2003 Coll.
69) Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
70) Commission Regulation (EC) No 92/2005 of 19 January 2005 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards means of disposal or uses of animal by-products and amending its Annex VI as regards biogas transformation and processing of rendered fats (OJ L 19 dated 21/01/2005).
71) Article 2, paragraph 6 of Act No. 271/2005 Coll.
72) Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
73) Annex III, Section XIV, Chapter I, point 5 and Section XV, Chapter I, point 5 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
74) For example, Annex II, Section II, point 2, letter c); Section III, point 7; Annex III, Section IX, Chapter I, point II.B.4., letter b) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
75) Regulation (EC) No 79/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 January 2005 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the use of milk, milk-based products and milk-derived products, defined as Category 3 material in that Regulation (OJ L 16 dated 20/01/2005).
76) Commission Regulation (EC) No 79/2005.
77) Annex III, Section V, Chapter III, point 2, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

78) Article 5, paragraph 5 of Annex I, Section III, Chapter II of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
79) Act No 442/2004 Coll. on private veterinary surgeons, on the Chamber of veterinarians of the Slovak Republic and on amendment and supplementation of Act No.488/2002 Coll. on veterinary care and on amendment of some laws as amended.
80) For example, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 735/2002 Coll. laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs as amended by Ordinance 325/2003 Coll., Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
81) Annex I, Section III, Chapter IV. B of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
82) Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
83) Act No 48/2002 Coll. on stay of aliens and on amendments and supplements to certain laws as amended.
84) Act No 131/2002 Coll. on universities and on amendment and supplementation to certain laws as amended.
85) Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No 270/1995 Coll. on the state language of the Slovak Republic as amended.
86) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 288/2003 Coll. on the notification of animal diseases as amended by Ordinance 295/2005 Coll.
87) For example, Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
88) Act No 271/2005 Coll.
89) Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
90) For example, Article 4, paragraph 7 and Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
91) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
92) Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
Act No 271/2005 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 41/2004 Coll. laying down the requirements for preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs.
93) Article 4, paragraph 7 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
94) Annex I, Section III, Chapter IV. A of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
95) Act No. 552/2003 Coll. on the performance of work in the public interest as amended.
96) Article 19, paragraph 1 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
97) Article 11, paragraph 5 and 6 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
98) Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
99) Commission Decision 98/139/EC of 4 February 1998, laying down certain detailed rules concerning on-the-spot checks carried out in the veterinary field by Commission experts in the Member States (OJ L 38, dated 12/02/1998).
100) For example, Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
101) For example, Act 634/1992 Coll. on consumer protection as amended, Act No 194/1998 Coll. on improvement and breeding of farm animals and on amendment and supplementation of trade licensing Act No. 455/1991 Coll. as amended,
102) For example, Article 17 - 20 of trade Act as amended by Act of the National Council of the Slovak Republic No 249/1994 Coll., Act No 241/2001 Coll. on the protection of classified information and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws as amended, Act No 428/2002 Coll. on protection of personal data as amended.
103) For example, Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1825/2000, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 305/2003 Coll. concerning the identification and registration of animals as amended by Ordinance No 429/2005 Coll.
104) For example, Regulation (EC) No. 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 291/2003 Coll. concerning animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of bovine animals as amended by Ordinance No 320/2006 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 290/2003 Coll. on the animal health requirements applicable to movement of semen of bovine species, exchange with Member States and imports from third countries as amended by Ordinance No 40/2005 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 296/2003 Coll. on the animal health requirements applicable to movement of semen of domestic animals of porcine species, its exchange with Member States and imports from third countries, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 294/2003 Coll. No. 294/2003 on requirements on the health of equidae at their movement, exchange with Member States and import from third countries as amended by Ordinance No 506/2005 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 297/2003 Coll. on health conditions at exchange of poultry and hatching eggs with Member States at their movement and import from third countries, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 313/2003 Coll. on veterinary requirements governing transport, exchange with Member States and imports from third countries of animals, semen, oocytes and embryos as amended by No 504/2005 Coll.
105) For example, Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 291/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 290/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 294/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 296/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 297/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 301/2003 Coll. concerning the principles affecting the organisation of veterinary checks of animals entering the territory of the Slovak Republic from third countries, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 303/2003 Coll. defining the animal health conditions governing the placing on the market of aquaculture animals and aquaculture products, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 313/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 505/2005 Coll. laying down the animal health rules for the import of live ungulates into the territory of the European Communities and their transit through the territory of the European Communities.
106) Act No 23/1962 Coll. on hunting as amended.
107) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
108) For example, Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 303/2003 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 307/2003 Coll. laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports of animal products not subject to other veterinary requirements as amended, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 41/2005 Coll. laying down animal health requirements concerning production, processing, distribution and placing on the market of products of animal origin intended for human consumption.
109) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 534/2004 Coll. concerning the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries as amended by Ordinance No. 564/2005 Coll.
110) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 319/2003 Coll. laying down the details of the prohibition on the use in stock farming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of ß-agonists as amended.
111) Council Decision 1999/879/EC of 17 December 1999 concerning the placing on the market and administration of bovine somatotrophin (BST) and repealing Decision 90/218/EEC (OJ L 331 dated 23. 12. 1999).
112) Article 18 of Act No 223/2001 Coll. on wastes and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws as amended.
113) Article 4 to 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
114) For example, Article 35, paragraph 7 of Act 543/2002 Coll. on nature and landscape protection, Article 28, paragraph 5 of Act No 15/2005 Coll. on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein and on amendment and supplementation of certain laws.
115) Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
116) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 41/2004 Coll.
117) Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005, Commission Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 438/2006 Coll. on undesirable substances in feedingstuffs and on other indicators of safety and usability of feedingstuffs, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 439/2006 Coll. on feed materials, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 440/2006 Coll. on compound feedingstuffs.
118) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 293/2003 Coll.
119) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 292/2003 Coll.
120) Article 40, paragraph 2 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
121) Commission Regulation (EC) No 745/2004 of 16 April 2004 laying down measures with regard to imports of products of animal origin for personal consumption (OJ L 122 dated 26. 04. 2004).
122) Article 12, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council; Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 745/2004.
123) Article 115 of Civil Code as amended by Act 509/1991 Coll.
124) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
125) Article 18, paragraph 2 and 3 and Article 19, paragraph 1 and 3 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament an of the Council on the hygiene of foodstuffs, Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
126) For example, Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Act No 271/2005 Coll., Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 41/2004 Coll.
127) Annex II, Chapter XII of Regulation (EC) 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
128) Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
129) Article 3, point 17 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
130) Article 2, paragraph 1, letter b) of Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
131) Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
132) Article 4, paragraph 1, letter a) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
133) Article 4, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
134) Article 31, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
135) Annex III, Section VIII of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
136) For example, Annex III, Sections VII and VIII of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
137) Act No 71/1967 Coll. on administrative proceedings (the Code of Administrative Procedure) as amended.
138) Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council,
Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
139) Article 4, paragraph 5, letter b) of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
140) Article 31, paragraph 2, letter f) of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
141) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2295/2003 of 23 December 2003 introducing detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1907/90 on certain marketing standards for eggs (OJ L 340 dated 24. 12. 2003).
142) Article 7, paragraph 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005.
143) Article 7, paragraph 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005.
144) Article 32, 35, 37, 43c, 43d and 76 of Act No 50/1976 Coll. on territorial planning and the construction code (construction law) as amended.
145) Article 140a, paragraph 1, letter a) of Act No 50/1976 Coll. as amended by Act No 479/2005 Coll.
146) For example, Commission Decision 2005/225/EC of 14 March 2005 amending Decision 2003/526/EC, as regards classical swine fever control measures in Germany, France, Luxemburg and Slovakia (OJ L 71 dated 17. 03. 2005), Commission Decision 2005/226/EC of 14 March 2005 amending Decision 2005/59/EC as regards areas where the plans for the eradication of classical swine fever in feral pigs and the emergency vaccination of feral pigs against classical swine fever are to be implemented in Slovakia (OJ L 71 dated 17. 03. 2005), Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 275/2003 Coll. laying down provisions for the control and eradication of bluetongue, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 276/2003 Coll. on measures for the control of classical swine fever, Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 309/2003 Coll. laying down measures to combat African horse sickness,
Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 116/2005 Coll. on measures for the control of foot and mouth disease.
147) Article 8, paragraph 2 of Act 523/2004 Coll. as amended by Act No 584/2005 Coll.
148) Ordinance of the Government of the Slovak Republic No 71/2004 Coll. laying down the details of the fees for the performance of veterinary inspections and veterinary controls as amended by Ordinance No 513/2004 Coll.
149) For example, Regulation (EC) No 396/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 February 2005 on maximum residue levels of pesticides in or on food and feed of plant and animal origin and amending Council Directive 91/414/EEC (OJ L 70 dated 16. 03. 2005), Commission Regulation (EC) No 466/2001 of 8 March 2001 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs (OJ L 77 dated 16. 03. 2001) as amended, Council Regulation (EC) No 2377/90 of 26 June 1990 laying down a Community procedure for the establishment of maximum residue limits for veterinary medicinal products in foodstuffs of animal origin. (OJ L 224 dated 18. 08. 1990) as amended, Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
150) Article 28 of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Annex I, Section II, Chapter II and point 5 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
151) Article 19 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
152) Slovak National Council Act No. 372/1990 Coll. on offences as amended.
153) Article 1, paragraph 2 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
154) Annex III, Section I, Chapter VII of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
155) Article 18 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005.
156) Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council.
157) Article 16 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005.
158) Article 4, paragraph 5 of Act No 428/2002 Coll.

 

Annex No. 1
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

DISEASES SUBJECT TO COMPENSATION OF LOSSES AND COSTS

Foot and mouth disease
Rinderpest (cattle plague)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Blue tongue
Swine vesicular disease
Classical swine fever
African swine fever
Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis
Avian influenza
African horse sickness
Vesicular stomatitis
Peste des petits ruminants
Rift Valley Fever
Lumpy skin disease
Sheep and goat pox
Hemorragic disease of deer
Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis
BSE
Scrapie

 

 

Annex No. 2
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

SEATS OF VETERINARY AND FOOD ADMINISTRATIONS

Bratislava region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Bratislava - Town having its seat in Bratislava for the territorial area of the districts of Bratislava I, Bratislava II, Bratislava III, Bratislava IV, and Bratislava V.
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Senec having its seat in Senec for the territorial area of the districts of Senec, Pezinok, and Malacky

Trnava region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Trnava having its seat in Trnava for the territorial area of the districts of Trnava, Hlohovec, and Piešťany
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Dunajská Streda having its seat in Dunajská Streda for the territorial area of the district of Dunajská Streda
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Galanta having its seat in Galanta for the territorial area of the district of Galanta
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Senica having its seat in Senica for the territorial area of the districts of Senica and Skalica

Trenčín region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Trenčín having its seat in Trenčín for the territorial area of the districts of Trenčín and Bánovce nad Bebravou
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Nové Mesto nad Váhom having its seat in Nové Mesto nad Váhom for the territorial area of the districts of Nové Mesto nad Váhomd and Myjava
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Púchov having its seat in Púchov for the territorial area of the districts of Púchov, Považská Bystrica, and Ilava
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Prievidza having its seat in Prievidza for the territorial area of the districts of Prievidza and Partizánske

Nitra region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Nitra having its seat in Nitra for the territorial area of the districts of Nitra and Zlaté Moravce
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Topoľčany having its seat in Topoľčany for the territorial area of the district of Topoľčany
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Nové Zámky having its seat in Nové Zámky for the territorial area of the district of Nové Zámky
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Komárno having its seat in Komárno for the territorial area of the district of Komárno
5. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Levice having its seat in Levice for the territorial area of the district of Levice
6. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Šaľa having its seat in Šaľa for the territorial area of the district of Šaľa

Žilina region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Žilina having its seat in Žilina for the territorial area of the districts of Žilina and Bytča
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Čadca having its seat in Čadca for the territorial area of the districts of Čadca and Kysucké Nové Mesto
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Dolný Kubín having its seat in Dolný Kubín for the territorial area of the districts of Dolný Kubín, Tvrdošín, and Námestovo
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Martin having its seat in Martin for the territorial area of the districts of Martin and Turčianske Teplice
5. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Liptovský Mikuláš having its seat in Liptovský Mikuláš for the territorial area of the districts of Liptovský Mikuláš and Ružomberok

Banská Bystrica region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Banská Bystrica having its seat in Banská Bystrica for the territorial area of the districts of Banská Bystrica and Brezno
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Lučenec having its seat in Lučenec for the territorial area of the districts of Lučenec and Poltár
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Veľký Krtíš having its seat in Veľký Krtíš for the territorial area of the district of Veľký Krtíš
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Rimavská Sobota having its seat in Rimavská Sobota for the territorial area of the districts of Rimavská Sobota and Revúca
5. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Zvolen having its seat in Zvolen for the territorial area of the districts of Zvolen, Detva, and Krupina
6. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Žiar nad Hronom having its seat in Žiar nad Hronom for the territorial area of the districts of Žiar nad Hronom, Žarnovica, and Banská Štiavnica

Prešov region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Poprad having its seat in Poprad for the territorial area of the districts of Poprad, Kežmarok, and Levoča
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Prešov having its seat in Prešov for the territorial area of the districts of Prešov and Sabinov
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Bardejov having its seat in Bardejov for the territorial area of the district of Bardejov
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Vranov nad Topľou having its seat in Vranov nad Topľou for the territorial area of the district of Vranov nad Topľou
5. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Svidník having its seat in Svidník for the territorial area of the districts of Svidník and Stropkov
6. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Humenné having its seat in Humenné for the territorial area of the districts of Humenné, Medzilaborce, and Snina
7. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Stará Ľubovňa having its seat in Stará Ľubovňa for the territorial area of the district of Stará Ľubovňa

Košice region
1. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Košice - Town having its seat in Košice for the territorial area of the districts of Košice I, Košice II, Košice III, and Košice IV
2. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Košice - Neighborhood having its seat in Košice for the territorial area of the districts of Košice - Neighborhood
3. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Michalovce having its seat in Michalovce for the territorial area of the districts of Michalovce and Sobrance
4. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Rožňava having its seat in Rožňava for the territorial area of the district of Rožňava
5. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Spišská Nová Ves having its seat in Spišská Nová Ves for the territorial area of the districts of Spišská Nová Ves and Gelnica
6. Regional Veterinary and Food Administration Trebišov having its seat in Trebišov for the territorial area of the district of Trebišov

 

Annex No. 3
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

DISEASES SUBJECT TO THE NOTIFICATION

Foot and mouth disease
Rinderpest (cattle plague)
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
Blue tongue
Swine vesicular disease
Classical swine fever
African swine fever
Porcine enterovirus encephalomyelitis
Avian influenza
Newcastle disease
African horse sickness
Vesicular stomatitis
Peste des petits ruminants
Rift Valley Fever
Lumpy skin disease
Sheep and goat pox
Infectious Hematopoetic Necrosis
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

 

 

Annex No. 4
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

DISEASES SUBJECT TO THE , NOTIFICATION PREVENTION AND CONTROL IN TRADE

(a) Bovine diseases
- Foot and mouth disease
- Rabies
- Tuberculosis
- Brucellosis
- Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia
- Enzootic bovine leukosis
- Anthrax
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopaty(BSE)
(b) Swine diseases
- Rabies
- Brucellosis
- Classical swine fever
- African swine fever
- Foot and mouth disease
- Swine Vesicular Disease
- Anthrax
(c) Sheep and goat diseases
- Foot and mouth disease
- Brucellosis (B. melitensis)
- Contagious epididymitis (B. ovis)
- Anthrax
- Rabies
- Scrapie
(d) Equine diseases
- Dourine
- Glanders
- Contagious encephalomyelitis (all types)
- Infectious anaemia
- Rabies
- Anthrax
- African horse sickness
- Vesicular stomatitis
(e) Avian diseases
- Avian influenza
- Newcastle disease
(f) Fish diseases
- Infectious salmon anemia (ISA)
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar)
- Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia (VHS)
Salmonid species
Grayling (Thymallus thymallus)
Whitefish (Coregonus spp.)
Pike (Esox lucius)
Turbots (Scophthalmus maximus)
- Infectious Hematopoietic Necrosis (IHN)
Salmonoids
Pike (Esox lucius)
(g) Molluscs diseases
- Bonamiosis (Bonamia ostreae)
Flat oyster (Ostrea edulis)
- Marteilla refringens
Flat oyster (Ostrea edulis)
(h) Other animal diseases
- Newcastle disease
Birds
- Avian influenza
Birds
- Psittacosis
Psittacidae
- American foulbrood
Bees
- Foot and mouth disease
Ruminants
- Brucellosis (Brucella spp.)
Suidae
- Tuberculosis
Suidae
- Classical swine fever
Suidae
- African swine fever
Suidae
- Foot and mouth disease
Suidae
- Rabies
All susceptible species

 

Annex No. 5
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

DISEASES SUBJECTED TO NOTIFICATION WHICH MAY BE INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL ERADICATION SCHEME

(a) Bovine diseases
- Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis
- Paratuberculosis
(b) Swine diseases
- Aujeszky's disease
- Brucellosis (B. suis)
- Transmissible gastro- eneteritis
(c) Sheep and goat diseases
- Contagious agalactia
- Paratuberculosis
- Caseous lymphadenitis
- Pulmonary adenomatosis
- Maedi visna
- Caprine arthritis/encephalitis
(d) Fish diseases
- Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN)
- Spring Viraemia of Carp (SVC)
- Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD) (Renibacterium salmonidarum)
- Furunculosis in salmon (Aeromonas salmonicida)
- Enteric redmouth (ERM) (Yersinia ruckeri)
- Gyrodactylosis
(e) Crustaceans
- Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
(f) Other animal diseases
- Viral enteritis
Mink
- Aleut disease
Mink
- European foulbrood
Bees
- Varroasis and acariasis
Bees
- Tuberculosis
Apes and felides
- Tuberculosis
Ruminants
- Myxomatosis
Lagomorphs
- Viral hemorragic fever
- LagomorphsTularemia
Lagomorphs

 

 

Annex No. 6
to Act No. 39/20072
Coll.

Part A
STUDY PLAN FOR VETERINARY SURGEONS

 

The study plan leading to the diploma, certificate or other evidence of formal qualifications in veterinary medicine shall include at least these subjects:

A. Basic subjects
- physics
-chemistry
- animal biology
- plant biology
- biomathematics

B. Special subjects
Group 1: Basic sciences
- anatomy (including histology and embryology)
- physiology
- biochemistry
- genetics
- pharmacology
- pharmacy
- toxicology
- microbiology
- immunology
- epidemiology
- professional ethics

Group 2: Clinical sciences
- obstetrics
- pathology (including pathological anatomy)
- parasitology
- clinical medicine and surgery (including anaesthesiology)
- clinical lectures on various domestic animals, poultry and other animal species
- preventive medicine
- radiology
- reproduction and reproductive disorders
- state veterinary medicine and health care
- veterinary legislation and forensic medicine
- therapeutics
- propedeutics to specialisation

Group 3: Animal production
- animal production
- animal nutrition
- agronomy
- rural economics
- animal breeding
- veterinary hygiene
- etology/animal behaviour and their protection

Group 4: Food hygiene
- inspection and control of animal foodstuffs or foodstuffs of animal origin
- food hygiene and technology
- practice (including practice during animal slaughter and foodstuffs processing)

The practical education may be in the form of education term with the proviso that this term is daily and under the direct control of the competent authority and does not exceed six months within a coherent five-years’ study period.

The distribution of the theoretical and practical teaching into different groups shall be balanced and coordinated so that it is possible to acquire the listed knowledge and skills in a way that shall adequately make it possible to veterinary surgeons to pursue all their activities.

 

Part B
FIELDS OF THE KNOWLEDGE PREREQUISITED TO BE AWARDED A DIPLOMA, CERTIFICATE OR OTHER EVIDENCE OF REQUIRED EDUCATION FOR A VETERINARY SURGEON

 

Knowledge:
a) in scientific disciplines which constitute the basis of activities of veterinary surgeon,
b) on the anatomy and functions of healthy animals, their breeding, reproduction and hygiene as a whole, as well as their feeding including the technology of food production and storage of foodstuffs corresponding to their needs,
c) on animal behaviour and protection,
d) on the causes, nature, course, consequences, diagnostics and treatment of animal diseases considered either individually or in groups including special knowledge of diseases that are transmissible to human,
e) on preventive medicine,
f) on the hygiene and technology of production, processing and distribution of foodstuffs for animals or foodstuffs of animal origin intended for human consumption,
g) on laws, regulations and implementation of provisions relating to the above subjects,
h) clinical and other practical skills under appropriate supervision.

 

 

Annex No. 7
to Act No. 39/2007 Coll.

Titles of diplomas, certificates and

other evidence of formal qualifications in veterinary surgery

 

Country	Title of qualification	Awarding body	Certificate accompanying qualification
1. Belgium	- Diploma van dierenarts - Diplôme de docteur en médecine vétérinaire	1. De universiteiten/les universités 2. De bevoegde Examencommissie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap/le Jury compétent d'enseignement de la Communauté française
2. Cyprus	Πιστοποιητικό Εγγραφής Κτηνιάτρου	Kunsill tal-Kirurgi Veterinarji
3. Czech Republic	1.  Diplom o ukončení studia ve studijním programu veterinární lékařství (doktor veterinární medicíny, MVDr.) 2.  Diplom o ukončení studia ve studijním programu veterinární hygiena a ekologie (doktor veterinární medicíny, (MVDr.)	Veterinární fakulta univerzity v České republice
4. Denmark	Bevis for bestået kandidateksamen i veterinærvidenskab	Kongelige Veterinær- og Landbohøjskole
5. Estonia	Diplom: täitnud veterinaarmeditsiini őppekava	Eesti Pőllumajandusülikool
6. Finland	Eläinlääketieteen lisensiaatin tutkinto / veterinärmedicine licentiatexamen	Helsingin yliopisto / Helsingfors universitet
7. France	Diplôme d'Etat de docteur vétérinaire
8. Greece	Πτυχίο Κτηυιατρκής	Παυεπιοτήιο Θεσσαλοίκης και Θεσσαλίας
9. Netherlands	Getuigschrift van met goed gevolg afgelegd diergeneeskundig / veeartsenijkundig examen
10. Ireland	1. Diploma of Bachelor in/of Veterinary Medicine (MVB) 2. Diploma of Membership of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons(MRCVS)
11. Iceland	Diplomas, certificates and other titles awarded in another state, for which this directive is applicable, and which are enlisted in this annex, documented by certificate of completed practical professional education issued by competent authorities
12. Liechtenstein	Diplomas, certificates and other titles awarded in another state, for which this directive is applicable, and which are enlisted in this annex, documented by certificate of completed practical professional education issued by competent authorities
13. Lithuania	Veterināārāārsta diploms	Latvijas Lauksaimniecības Universitāte
14. Latvia	Aukštojo mokslo diplomas (veterinarijos gydytojo (DVM))	Lietuvos Veterinarijos Akademija
15. Luxemburg	Diplôme d'Etat de docteur en médecine vétérinaire	Jury d'examen d'Etat
16. Hungary	Állatorvos doktor oklevél – dr. med. vet.	Szent István Egyetem Állatorvos-tudományi Kar
17. Malta	Lićenzja ta’ Kirurgu Veterinarju	Kunsill tal-Kirurgi Veterinarji
18. Germany	Zeugnis über das Ergebnis des Dritten Abschnitts der Tierärztlichen Prüfung und das Gesamtergebnis der Tierärztlichen Prüfung	Der Vorsitzende des Prüfungsausschusses für die Tierärztliche Prüfung einer Universität oder Hochschule
19. Norway	Eksamensbevis utstedt av Norges veterinćrhřgskole for bestĺtt veterinćrmedisinsk embetseksamen	Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine
20. Poland	Dyplom lekarza weterynarii	1.  Szkoła Glówna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie 2. Akademia Rolnicza we Wrocławiu 3. Akademia Rolnicza w Lublinie 4. Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
21. Portugal	Carta de curso de licenciatura em medicina veterinária	Universidade
22. Austria	1. Diplom-Tierarzt 2. Magister medicinae veterinariae	Universität	1. Doktor der Veterinärmedizin 2. Doctor medicinae veterinariae 3. Fachtierarzt
23. Slovenia	Diploma, s katero se podeljuje strokovni naslov “doctor veterinarske medicine / doktorica veterinarske medicine”	Univerza	Spričevalo o opravljenem državnem izpitu s področja veterinarstva
24. Spain	Titulo de Licenciado en Veterinaria	Ministerio de Educación y Cultura / El rector de una Universidad
25. Switzerland	Diplomas, certificates and other titles awarded in another state, for which this directive is applicable, and which are enlisted in this annex, documented by certificate of completed practical professional education issued by competent authorities
26. Sweden	Veterinärexamen	Sveriges Landbruksuniversitet
27. Italy	Diploma di laurea in medicina veterinaria	Università	Diploma di abilitazione all'esercizio della medicina veterinaria
28. Great Britain	1. Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) 2. Bachelor of Veterinary Science (BVSc) 3. Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BvetMB) 4. Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) 5. Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) 6. Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine (BvetMed)	1. University of Bristol   2. University of Liverpool   3. University of Cambridge   4. University of Edinburgh   5. University of Glasgow   6. University of London

 

 

Annex No. 8
to Act No. 39/2007
Coll.

By this act the following Directives are fully transposed:1)
1. Council Directive 78/1°026/EEC of December 18, 1978, concerning the mutual recognition of diplomas, certificates and other evidence of formal qualifications in veterinary medicine, including the measures to facilitate the effective exercise of the right of establishment and freedom to provide services (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 362, December 23, 1978, p. 1-6) as amended by Council Directive 81/1057/EEC (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 385, December 31, 1981, p. 25-26), Directive of European Parliament and Council 2001/19/EC (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 206, July 31, 1978, p. 1-51),
Council Directive 89/594/EEC of October 30, 1989 (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 341, November 23, 1989, p. 19-29).
2. Council Directive 78/1027/EEC of December 18, 1978, concerning the coordination of provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in respect of the activities of veterinary surgeons (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 362, December 23, 1978, p. 7-9) as amended by Directive of the European Parliament and Council 2001/19/EC (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 206, July 31, 1978, p. 1-51),
Council Directive 89/594/EEC of October 30, 1989 (Official Journal of the European Communities, L 341, November 23, 1989, p. 19-29).

1) The Council Directives have been translated into Slovak language; the official translation in Slovak language is available for inspection at the Institute for Approximation of Law of the Office of Government of the Slovak Republic, Námestie slobody 1/29, Bratislava.”.