Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (Revised in 2015)
Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (Revised in 2015)
Law of the People's Republic of China on Animal Epidemic Prevention (Revised in 2015)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 24
April 24, 2015
(Adopted at the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress on July 3, 1997; revised at the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on August 30, 2007; amended for the first time according to Decision on Amending 12 Laws including the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China passed at the 3rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on June 29, 2013; and amended for the second time at the Decision on Revising Six Laws including the Electric Power Law of the People's Republic of China passed at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on April 24, 2015)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemics
Chapter III Report, Notification and Announcement of Animal Epidemic Situation
Chapter IV Control and Elimination of Animals Epidemics
Chapter V Quarantine of Animals and Animal Products
Chapter VI Diagnosis and Treatment of Animal Diseases
Chapter VII Supervision and Control
Chapter VIII Guarantee Measures
Chapter IX Legal Liability
Chapter X Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted for the purpose of strengthening the administration of animal epidemic prevention, preventing, controlling and eliminating animal epidemics, promoting the development of the breeding industry, protecting human health, and maintaining public health and safety.
Article 2 This Law is applicable to animal epidemic prevention as well as supervision and control in this respect within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
The quarantine of animals and animal products for enter or exit shall be governed by the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants.
Article 3 For the purposes of this Law, animals include livestock and poultry and other animals that are raised by man or are legally captured.
Animal products include animals' meat, rawhides, raw wool, down, viscera, fat, blood, semen, spawn, embryos, bones, hoofs, heads, horns and tendons as well as milk and eggs which are liable to cause the spread of animal epidemics.
Animal epidemics are infectious and parasitic animal diseases.
Animal epidemic prevention means the prevention, control and elimination of animal epidemics as well as the quarantine of animals and animal products.
Article 4 On the basis of the harmfulness of animal epidemics to the breeding industry and to human health, the epidemics under control as prescribed by this Law are classified in the following three categories:
1. Category I includes epidemics which menace human beings and animals to such a serious degree that emergency and rigorous mandatory measures need to be taken to prevent, control and eliminate them;
2. Category II includes epidemics which are liable to cause major financial losses and call for strict measures to control and eliminate them, and to prevent them from spreading; and
3. Category III includes epidemics which are common and frequently-occurring, are liable to cause heavy economic losses and need to be controlled and for which decontamination is necessary.
The catalogues of the specific diseases under Categories I, II and III of animal epidemics mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be compiled and published by the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council.
Article 5 The State applies the principle of putting prevention first to animal epidemics.
Article 6 People's governments at or above the county level shall improve their unified leadership over animal epidemic prevention, organize strong teams for animal epidemic prevention at the grassroots, establish sound systems for animal epidemic prevention, and work out, and organize the implementation of programs for animal epidemic prevention and control.
People's governments at the township level and the neighborhood offices in cities shall get the people organized to help make a success of animal epidemic prevention and control in the areas under their jurisdiction respectively.
Article 7 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention nationwide.
The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention in their respective administrative areas.
The other departments under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, within the limits of their respective duties, make a success of animal epidemic prevention.
The functioning departments for animal health supervision in the Army and the Armed-Police Force shall be in charge of epidemic prevention among the animals in active service and the animals raised for their own use.
Article 8 The animal health supervision institutions set up by the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in compliance with the provisions of this Law, be responsible for quarantine of animals and animal products and for supervision, administration and law enforcement with regard to animal epidemic prevention.
Article 9 People's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the regulations of the State Council and on the basis of the principle of overall planning, rational geographical distribution and integrated arrangement, establish institutions for prevention and control of animal epidemics, which shall undertake the tasks of monitoring, detection, diagnosis, epidemiological investigation, reporting on epidemic situation and other technical work in respect of epidemic prevention and control.
Article 10 The State supports and encourages scientific research and international cooperation and exchange in animal epidemics, in order to promote the wide use of advanced and applicable findings of scientific research, disseminate scientific knowledge about animal epidemic prevention, and help raise the scientific and technical level of animal epidemic prevention and control.
Article 11 People's governments and the departments concerned shall give awards to the units and individuals that have scored successes or made contributions in, animal epidemic prevention and in scientific research in this field of endeavor.
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemics
Article 12 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall conduct risk assessment of animal epidemic conditions and, on the basis of the results of assessment, formulate appropriate measures for prevention and control of animal epidemics.
The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall, in light of the animal epidemic situations at home and abroad and the need of protecting the production of the breeding industry and human health, draw up and publish, in a timely manner, the technical specifications for animal epidemic prevention and control.
Article 13 The State implements mandatory immunization against animal epidemics that seriously harm production of the breeding industry and human health. The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall determine the specific kinds of animal epidemics and areas that are subject to mandatory immunization and shall, jointly with the departments concerned under the State Council, formulate national plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics.
The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, on the basis of the national plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics, formulate plans for mandatory immunization in their respective administrative areas; and they may have more kinds of animal epidemics and areas subject to mandatory immunization, depending on the spread of animal epidemics in their respective administrative areas, do so upon approval by the people's governments at the same levels, and report to the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council for the record.
Article 14 The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize the implementation of the plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics. The people's governments at the township level and the neighborhood offices in cities shall make arrangements for the units and individuals that raise animals in the areas under their respective jurisdiction to make a success of mandatory immunization.
The units and individuals that raise animals shall perform their duties in accordance with law in mandatory immunization against animal epidemics and do a good job in this respect, as required by the administrative departments for veterinary medicine.
Files on the animals that have received mandatory immunization shall be kept in accordance with the regulations of the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council, and the livestock and poultry shall have labels attached to them so that they can be traced for control.
Article 15 People's governments at or above the county level shall set up a sound network for animal epidemic monitoring, and improve such monitoring.
The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall formulate the national plan for animal epidemic monitoring. The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, on the basis of the national plan for animal epidemic monitoring, formulate plans for animal epidemic monitoring in their respective administrative areas.
The institutions for prevention and control of animal epidemics shall, according to the regulations of the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council, conduct monitoring of the outbreak and spread of animal epidemics. The units and individuals engaged in animal raising, slaughtering, marketing, isolation and transportation and in animal product manufacturing, marketing, processing and storing shall not reject or obstruct such monitoring.
Article 16 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council and the administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in a timely manner, issue early warnings against animal epidemics on the basis of the outbreak and trend of spread of animal epidemics they have detected.
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Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 24
April 24, 2015
(Adopted at the 26th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress on July 3, 1997; revised at the 29th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 10th National People's Congress on August 30, 2007; amended for the first time according to Decision on Amending 12 Laws including the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China passed at the 3rd Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on June 29, 2013; and amended for the second time at the Decision on Revising Six Laws including the Electric Power Law of the People's Republic of China passed at the 14th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress on April 24, 2015)
Table of Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemics
Chapter III Report, Notification and Announcement of Animal Epidemic Situation
Chapter IV Control and Elimination of Animals Epidemics
Chapter V Quarantine of Animals and Animal Products
Chapter VI Diagnosis and Treatment of Animal Diseases
Chapter VII Supervision and Control
Chapter VIII Guarantee Measures
Chapter IX Legal Liability
Chapter X Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted for the purpose of strengthening the administration of animal epidemic prevention, preventing, controlling and eliminating animal epidemics, promoting the development of the breeding industry, protecting human health, and maintaining public health and safety.
Article 2 This Law is applicable to animal epidemic prevention as well as supervision and control in this respect within the territory of the People's Republic of China.
The quarantine of animals and animal products for enter or exit shall be governed by the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Quarantine of Importing and Exporting Animals and Plants.
Article 3 For the purposes of this Law, animals include livestock and poultry and other animals that are raised by man or are legally captured.
Animal products include animals' meat, rawhides, raw wool, down, viscera, fat, blood, semen, spawn, embryos, bones, hoofs, heads, horns and tendons as well as milk and eggs which are liable to cause the spread of animal epidemics.
Animal epidemics are infectious and parasitic animal diseases.
Animal epidemic prevention means the prevention, control and elimination of animal epidemics as well as the quarantine of animals and animal products.
Article 4 On the basis of the harmfulness of animal epidemics to the breeding industry and to human health, the epidemics under control as prescribed by this Law are classified in the following three categories:
1. Category I includes epidemics which menace human beings and animals to such a serious degree that emergency and rigorous mandatory measures need to be taken to prevent, control and eliminate them;
2. Category II includes epidemics which are liable to cause major financial losses and call for strict measures to control and eliminate them, and to prevent them from spreading; and
3. Category III includes epidemics which are common and frequently-occurring, are liable to cause heavy economic losses and need to be controlled and for which decontamination is necessary.
The catalogues of the specific diseases under Categories I, II and III of animal epidemics mentioned in the preceding paragraph shall be compiled and published by the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council.
Article 5 The State applies the principle of putting prevention first to animal epidemics.
Article 6 People's governments at or above the county level shall improve their unified leadership over animal epidemic prevention, organize strong teams for animal epidemic prevention at the grassroots, establish sound systems for animal epidemic prevention, and work out, and organize the implementation of programs for animal epidemic prevention and control.
People's governments at the township level and the neighborhood offices in cities shall get the people organized to help make a success of animal epidemic prevention and control in the areas under their jurisdiction respectively.
Article 7 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention nationwide.
The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall be in charge of animal epidemic prevention in their respective administrative areas.
The other departments under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, within the limits of their respective duties, make a success of animal epidemic prevention.
The functioning departments for animal health supervision in the Army and the Armed-Police Force shall be in charge of epidemic prevention among the animals in active service and the animals raised for their own use.
Article 8 The animal health supervision institutions set up by the local people's governments at or above the county level shall, in compliance with the provisions of this Law, be responsible for quarantine of animals and animal products and for supervision, administration and law enforcement with regard to animal epidemic prevention.
Article 9 People's governments at or above the county level shall, according to the regulations of the State Council and on the basis of the principle of overall planning, rational geographical distribution and integrated arrangement, establish institutions for prevention and control of animal epidemics, which shall undertake the tasks of monitoring, detection, diagnosis, epidemiological investigation, reporting on epidemic situation and other technical work in respect of epidemic prevention and control.
Article 10 The State supports and encourages scientific research and international cooperation and exchange in animal epidemics, in order to promote the wide use of advanced and applicable findings of scientific research, disseminate scientific knowledge about animal epidemic prevention, and help raise the scientific and technical level of animal epidemic prevention and control.
Article 11 People's governments and the departments concerned shall give awards to the units and individuals that have scored successes or made contributions in, animal epidemic prevention and in scientific research in this field of endeavor.
Chapter II Prevention of Animal Epidemics
Article 12 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall conduct risk assessment of animal epidemic conditions and, on the basis of the results of assessment, formulate appropriate measures for prevention and control of animal epidemics.
The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall, in light of the animal epidemic situations at home and abroad and the need of protecting the production of the breeding industry and human health, draw up and publish, in a timely manner, the technical specifications for animal epidemic prevention and control.
Article 13 The State implements mandatory immunization against animal epidemics that seriously harm production of the breeding industry and human health. The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall determine the specific kinds of animal epidemics and areas that are subject to mandatory immunization and shall, jointly with the departments concerned under the State Council, formulate national plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics.
The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, on the basis of the national plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics, formulate plans for mandatory immunization in their respective administrative areas; and they may have more kinds of animal epidemics and areas subject to mandatory immunization, depending on the spread of animal epidemics in their respective administrative areas, do so upon approval by the people's governments at the same levels, and report to the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council for the record.
Article 14 The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the local people's governments at or above the county level shall organize the implementation of the plans for mandatory immunization against animal epidemics. The people's governments at the township level and the neighborhood offices in cities shall make arrangements for the units and individuals that raise animals in the areas under their respective jurisdiction to make a success of mandatory immunization.
The units and individuals that raise animals shall perform their duties in accordance with law in mandatory immunization against animal epidemics and do a good job in this respect, as required by the administrative departments for veterinary medicine.
Files on the animals that have received mandatory immunization shall be kept in accordance with the regulations of the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council, and the livestock and poultry shall have labels attached to them so that they can be traced for control.
Article 15 People's governments at or above the county level shall set up a sound network for animal epidemic monitoring, and improve such monitoring.
The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council shall formulate the national plan for animal epidemic monitoring. The administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, on the basis of the national plan for animal epidemic monitoring, formulate plans for animal epidemic monitoring in their respective administrative areas.
The institutions for prevention and control of animal epidemics shall, according to the regulations of the administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council, conduct monitoring of the outbreak and spread of animal epidemics. The units and individuals engaged in animal raising, slaughtering, marketing, isolation and transportation and in animal product manufacturing, marketing, processing and storing shall not reject or obstruct such monitoring.
Article 16 The administrative department for veterinary medicine under the State Council and the administrative departments for veterinary medicine under the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, in a timely manner, issue early warnings against animal epidemics on the basis of the outbreak and trend of spread of animal epidemics they have detected.
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