table eggs can leave the holding after adequate disinfection or can be sent directly to an installation where they receive an adequate heat treatment;

Declarations on liquid milk, pigmeat and eggs

All hens, which have started to lay, are included, whether the eggs are for consumption or for breeding.

laying chicks: chicks intended to be raised with a view to the production of eggs for consumption,

A registration of the establishments under distinguishing numbers is a condition for tracing eggs placed on the market for human consumption.

Member States shall ensure that the register of establishments established pursuant to paragraph 1 is accessible to the competent authority of the Member State for the purpose of tracing eggs put on the market for human consumption.

Article 7 of Directive 1999/74/EC requires that every establishment covered by the scope of that Directive shall be registered by the competent authority of the Member State and given a distinguishing number, which will be the medium for tracing eggs placed on the market for human consumption.

Utility females for laying

chicks intended to be raised with a view to the production of eggs for consumption,

Those programmes include specific measures for laying hens, namely productive poultry reared with a view to producing eggs for consumption.

The Decision also includes specific control measures such as movement restrictions on live poultry, hatching and table eggs for intra-Community trade.

No table eggs derived from poultry vaccinated against avian influenza and originating from the area described in Annex I, shall be dispatched from Italy.

'productive poultry' shall mean poultry 72 hours old or more, reared for the production of meat and /or eggs for consumption (or for restocking supplies of game);

Only disposable packaging material, or packaging material which can be effectively washed and disinfected, is used for the collection, storage and transport of table eggs.

Laying hens, namely productive poultry reared with a view to producing eggs for consumption, to be sent to Finland and Sweden shall be subject to a microbiological test, effected by sampling in the flock of origin.

The restrictions on movements of live birds, hatching eggs, table eggs and fresh poultry meat into, out of and within the area described in Annex I shall apply as laid down in the vaccination programme referred to in Article 1.

I, the undersigned, official veterinarian, certify that the laying hens (productive poultry reared with a view to producing eggs for consumption) have been tested with negative results according to the rules laid down in Commission Decision 2004/235/EC of 9 March 2004 establishing additional guarantees regarding salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of laying hens fn (productive poultry reared with a view to producing eggs for consumption).

All means of transport used for transporting poultry, hatching eggs, table eggs and poultry feedstuff must be cleaned and disinfected immediately before and after each transport with disinfectants in accordance with the methods of use approved by the competent authority.

Future Community legislation on hygiene rules for food of animal origin should provide a similar procedure in respect of meat and table eggs.

table eggs laid during the presumed incubation period which have been moved from the holding shall whereever possible be traced and destroyed, unless they have previously been properly disinfected;

table eggs laid during the presumed incubation period which have been moved from the holding shall wherever possible be traced and destroyed, unless they have previously been properly disinfected;

With effect from 72 months after entry into force of this Regulation, eggs must not be used for direct human consumption (as table eggs) unless they originate from a commercial flock of laying hens subject to a national programme established under Article 5 and not under official restriction.

All hens which have started to lay are included, whether the eggs are for consumption or for breeding.

At least 30 % of samples must be collected from packing centres which represent the most significant proportion of eggs supplied for human consumption.

The number of samples to be taken each year must be at least equal to 1 per 1 000 tonnes of the annual production of consumption eggs, with a minimum of 200 samples.

As regards the production of table eggs, it is important to establish specific measures concerning the placing on the market of products originating from flocks that have not been tested free of relevant salmonella.