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the duties of the national central veterinary office
Head: Chief Veterinary Officer
Functions:
• Preparation of veterinary legislation and transposition of EU directives into national law,
• Supervision and coordination of the activities of the veterinary services at regional and
district levels
• Decision-making in emergency situations
• The coordination and cooperation with the network of diagnostic laboratories,
according to contingency plans,
• Negotiations with the Third Countries and national representative to various international
organisations, e.g. OIE, FAO and WHO.
Duties of the regional & district veterinary office:
• animal health
• vet public health
- animal welfare
Animal health/animal welfare section - duties
execute the veterinary controls and check
relating to surveillance and notification of
certain animal diseases in the district.
organise instant measures when notifiable
diseases are suspected and confirmed and
to implement measures to control, prevent
and eliminate notifiable diseases according
to contingency plans.
organise monitoring for certain contagious
diseases, to arrange the elimination of
infected animals and herds and to institute
preventive vaccination or other treatments of
animals according to EU approved national
disease control and eradication schemes.
carry out epidemiologic investigations in order to
trace sources of infections and contagious contacts
to other animals and holdings in relation to
appearance of various infectious or contagious
diseases in the district.
supervise and check when relevant movement of
animals and certain animal products in order to
identify animal health risks.
issuing animal health certificates signed by official
veterinarians in accordance with the EU criteria.
supervise the veterinary practitioners in the area with
special regard to cooperation and advice in case of
apparition of notifiable diseases or suspicion thereof
and in relation to use of certain veterinary medicinal
products for treatment of diseases or for growth
promotion purposes in livestock holdings within the
area.
supervise veterinary surgeons who are
accredited to carry out statutory work in the
area, i.e. tuberculin testing and other
diagnostic work related to systematic disease
eradication schemes and provisions for back
up documentation for issuing animal health
certificate in relation to trade.
List the duties of the veterinary public health section
enforce veterinary surveillance and checks on
products, and notification of consumer health
hazards including zoonoses in the district.
organise instant measures when consumer health
hazards are suspected and confirmed, and to
control, prevent and eliminate consumer health
hazards according to emergency plans
supervise and coordinate the veterinary meat
inspection services at slaughterhouses and
meat product plants in the district, and to
supervise veterinary surgeons who are
appointed to carry out supervision of food
and inspection of meat in the area.
supervise the official veterinarians issuing
hygiene certificates in accordance with the
EU criteria
supervise and check movement of products
of animal and fish origin in order to verify the
identity and origin.
supervise the use of certain veterinary
medicinal products for treatment of diseases
or for growth promotion purposes in livestock
holdings within the area, and to organise the
sampling of animals and food submitted to
analytical checks
Six examples of common veterinary legislations
The single market Import from third countries Animal Health certificates Reporting and recording of animal diseases Preventive and control measures for the contagious animal diseases National eradication plans
Sanctions of the official veterinary office
official restrictions exclusion from state compensation fine: animal health/animal welfare infringment criminal offence
cruelty to animals definition
Any
person who is engaged in the unjustified abuse or unjustified
mistreatment of vertebrate animals resulting in permanent damage
to the animal’s health or in the animal’s destruction
or who abandons , dispossess or expels a domesticated
vertebrate animal or a dangerous animal is guilty of a
misdemeanor .
The
penalty for a felony shall be higher , if the criminal offense is
carried out in a manner to cause undue suffering to the animal , or
results in permanent damage to several animals or in the
destruction of more than one animal