' That is not necessarily so. To use hogs as an example, the regulations that a large hog operator must meet are quite stringent.

In order to have an overview of the disease situation, to facilitate a rapid reaction in the case of a suspicion of disease and to protect farms or mollusc farming areas having a high animal health standard, a risk-based animal health surveillance should be applied in all such farms and mollusc farming areas.

The only difference is in the collection and monitoring of the raw materials, those for the manufacture of bio-gelatine being derived only from pigs reared under monitored ecological conditions, with all the regulations applicable to ecological rearing observed and complied with.

(8) Whereas gelatine is prepared from bones, farmed ruminant and wild game hides and skins, pig and poultry skins, tendons and sinews and fish skins and bones; whereas supervided hygienic slaughtering of cattle in a slaughterhouse prevents contamination of hides with material presenting risks as regards transmissible spongiform encephalopathies; whereas it is appropriate that these raw materials originate from healthy animals and are dealt with hygienically when being collected, transported stored and handled; whereas in order to guarantee traceability of these raw materials it is appropriate to require collection centres and tannerie ...[+++]s which intend to supply these materials ot be authorised and registered, whereas, furthermore, it is appropriate to lay down a model of commercial document which should accompany these raw materials during transportation a time of delivery in the collection centres and in the tanneries and in the gelatine processing plants;

Whereas during the implementation of the national serosurveillance programme no antibodies against classical swine fever virus were detected in pigs kept in the provinces of Segovia, Madrid and Toledo; whereas therefore it appears justified that pigs for breeding and production can be sent from these provinces to the rest of Spain if measures are enforced to prevent the spread of disease;