preventive medicine and epidemiology,

preventive medicine,

With the purpose of development and cooperation in the field of veterinary medicine and with a special stress on preventive activities in controlling infectious diseases and in preventing their spread, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia and the Government of the Republic of Bulgaria (hereinafter: Contracting Parties) agree on the following:

Hygiene, health education, preventive medicine, early diagnosis of diseases

The objectives of health cooperation shall be to strengthen activities in the fields of research, pharmacology, preventive medicine and contagious diseases such as AIDS.

Measures to attain this aim could include technical assistance concentrating on vocational training, the administration and improvement of social services, job creation, improvement of housing and preventive medicine.

Any mixture of a veterinary medicinal product or products and feed or feeds which is ready prepared for marketing and intended to be fed to animals without further processing, because of its curative or preventive properties or other properties as a medicinal product covered by point 2.

For the purposes of this Annex, somatic cell therapy medicinal products shall mean the use in humans of autologous (emanating from the patient himself), allogeneic (coming from another human being) or xenogeneic (coming from animals) somatic living cells, the biological characteristics of which have been substantially altered as a result of their manipulation to obtain a therapeutic, diagnostic or preventive effect through metabolic, pharmacological and immunological means.

Preventive medicine,

hygiene: - preventive medicine,

adequate knowledge of preventive medicine;

Elements of preventive medicine, notably individual and collective hygiene, and elements of possible prophylactic measures.

Paragraph 1 shall not apply where processing of the data is required for the purposes of preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, the provision of care or treatment or the management of health-care services, and where those data are processed by a health professional subject to the obligation of professional secrecy or by another person also subject to an equivalent obligation of secrecy.

the use of allopathic chemically synthesised medicinal products for preventive treatments is prohibited;

The preventive use of chemically-synthesised allopathic medicinal products is not permitted in organic farming;

Paragraph 1 shall not apply where processing of the data is required for the purposes of preventive medicine, medical diagnosis, the provision of care or treatment or the management of health-care services, and where those data are processed by a health professional subject under national law or rules established by national competent bodies to the obligation of professional secrecy or by another person also subject to an equivalent obligation of secrecy.

The use of chemically synthesised allopathic veterinary medicinal products or antibiotics for preventive treatments is prohibited;

Medicated feedingstuffs: Any mixture of a veterinary medicinal product or products and feed or feeds which is ready prepared for marketing and intended to be fed to animals without further processing, because of its curative or preventive properties or other properties as a medicinal product covered by point 2.

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Veterinary Use (CVMP) concluded that the benefits of Zactran exceeded the risks for the therapeutic and preventive treatment of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) associated with Mannheimia haemolytica, Pasteurella multocida and Histophilus somni, (the presence of the disease in the herd should be established before preventive treatment) and recommended that Zactran should be given a marketing authorisation.