Aquatic Animal Health Code

Aquatic Animal Health Code
(2015)

Contents

	Foreword
	User’s guide
	Glossary
SECTION 1.	Notification, diseases listed by the OIE and surveillance for aquatic animals
Chapter 1.1.	Notification of diseases, and provision of epidemiological information
Chapter 1.2.	Criteria for listing aquatic animal diseases
Chapter 1.3.	Diseases listed by the OIE
Chapter 1.4.	Aquatic animal health surveillance
Chapter 1.5.	Criteria for listing species as susceptible to infection with a specific pathogen
SECTION 2.	Risk analysis
Chapter 2.1.	Import risk analysis
SECTION 3.	Quality of Aquatic Animal Health Services
Chapter 3.1.	Quality of Aquatic Animal Health Services
Chapter 3.2.	Communication
SECTION 4.	Disease prevention and control
Chapter 4.1.	Zoning and compartmentalisation
Chapter 4.2.	Application of compartmentalisation
Chapter 4.3.	General recommendations on disinfection
Chapter 4.4.	Recommendations for surface disinfection of salmonid eggs
Chapter 4.5.	Contingency planning
Chapter 4.6.	Fallowing in aquaculture
Chapter 4.7.	Handling, disposal and treatment of aquatic animal waste
Chapter 4.8.	Control of pathogenic agents in aquatic animal feed
SECTION 5.	Trade measures, importation/exportation procedures and health certification
Chapter 5.1.	General obligations related to certification
Chapter 5.2.	Certification procedures
Chapter 5.3.	OIE procedures relevant to the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures of the World Trade Organization
Chapter 5.4.	Criteria to assess the safety of aquatic animal commodities
Chapter 5.5.	Control of aquatic animal health risks associated with transport of aquatic animals
Chapter 5.6.	Aquatic animal health measures applicable before and at departure
Chapter 5.7.	Aquatic animal health measures applicable during transit from the place of departure in the exporting country to the place of arrival in the importing country
Chapter 5.8.	Frontier posts in the importing country
Chapter 5.9.	Aquatic animal health measures applicable on arrival
Chapter 5.10.	Measures concerning international transport of aquatic animal pathogens and pathological material
Chapter 5.11.	Model health certificates for international trade in live aquatic animals and products of aquatic animal origin
SECTION 6.	Antimicrobial use in aquatic animals
Chapter 6.1.	Introduction to the recommendations for controlling antimicrobial resistance
Chapter 6.2.	Principles for responsible and prudent use of antimicrobial agents in aquatic animals
Chapter 6.3.	Monitoring of the quantities and usage patterns of antimicrobial agents used in aquatic animals
Chapter 6.4.	Development and harmonisation of national antimicrobial resistance surveillance and monitoring programmes for aquatic animals
Chapter 6.5.	Risk analysis for antimicrobial resistance arising from the use of antimicrobial agents in aquatic animals
SECTION 7.	Welfare of farmed fish
Chapter 7.1.	Introduction to recommendations for the welfare of farmed fish
Chapter 7.2.	Welfare of farmed fish during transport
Chapter 7.3.	Welfare aspects of stunning and killing of farmed fish for human consumption
Chapter 7.4.	Killing of farmed fish for disease control purposes
SECTION 8.	Diseases of amphibians
Chapter 8.1.	Infection with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Chapter 8.2.	Infection with ranavirus
SECTION 9.	Diseases of crustaceans
Chapter 9.1.	Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci)
Chapter 9.2.	Infection with yellow head virus
Chapter 9.3.	Infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis
Chapter 9.4.	Infectious myonecrosis
Chapter 9.5.	Necrotising hepatopancreatitis
Chapter 9.6.	Taura syndrome
Chapter 9.7.	White spot disease
Chapter 9.8.	White tail disease
SECTION 10.	Diseases of fish
Chapter 10.1.	Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis
Chapter 10.2.	Infection withAphanomyces invadans (Epizootic ulcerative syndrome)
Chapter 10.3.	Infection with Gyrodactylus salaris
Chapter 10.4.	Infection with infectious salmon anaemia virus
Chapter 10.5.	Infection with salmonid alphavirus
Chapter 10.6.	Infectious haematopoietic necrosis
Chapter 10.7.	Koi herpesvirus disease
Chapter 10.8.	Red sea bream iridoviral disease
Chapter 10.9.	Spring viraemia of carp
Chapter 10.10.	Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia
SECTION 11.	Diseases of molluscs
Chapter 11.1.	Infection with abalone herpesvirus
Chapter 11.2.	Infection with Bonamia exitiosa
Chapter 11.3.	Infection with Bonamia ostreae
Chapter 11.4.	Infection with Marteilia refringens
Chapter 11.5.	Infection with Perkinsus marinus
Chapter 11.6.	Infection with Perkinsus olseni
Chapter 11.7.	Infection with Xenohaliotis californiensis

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