Republic of Serbia Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management

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Republic of SerbiaMinistry of Agriculture,
Forestry and Water Management

• General presentation of the Veterinary
  Directorate
• Dr. Miroslav MARINKOVIC, CVO

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COMPETENT AUTHORITY

• The MAFWM
• - Minister - Dr Slobodan Milosavljevic
• Within the Ministry
• - the Veterinary Directorate
• Miroslav Marinkovic, Dr.vet.med.spec.

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COMPETENCES

• Animal health
• Animal welfare
• Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety
• Protection and improvement of environment and
  nature

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Organigramme

• DIRECTOR
• 5 Departments
• Animal Health and Welfare
• Veterinary Public Health
• Veterinary Inspection
• Border Veterinary Inspection
• International Trade and Cooperation
• 3 Units 1 Centre
• Veterinary Services
• Legal and General Affairs
• Finance and Administration
• Centre for Control and Prevention of Particularly
  Dangerous Diseases

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Personnel Veterinary Directorate
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STRUCTURE OF VETERINARY ORGANIZATIONS

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Personnel Veterinary Service
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PRIVATIZATION OF THE PUBLIC STATIONS

• Law on Privatization
• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Decision of Government of Republic of Serbia
• method and manner of privatization
• Law on Public Auction (tender sale is not
  possible because a small estimation of capital
  funds)
• Regulation on Public Auction
• Regulation on Capital Fund Estimation
• Cooperation between competent Ministry and
  Veterinary
• Directorate in order to protect veterinary
  service and
• provide continuity and quality of veterinary
  activity.

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PUBLIC AUCTION

• Sale of capital fund at a public auction
• Carried out by Agency for Privatization
• decision
• materials at the expense of firm
• public call
• auction

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PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC STATION

• started in December 2007
• 25 public veterinary stations have been
  privatized
• Auction for 31 veterinary station is schedule
  until the end of June 2008
• Privatization of all veterinary station until the
  end of 2008
• Most expensive veterinary station - sold for
  1.100.000
• Average 100.000-150.000

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PRIVATIZATION

• Public and Private Veterinary Stations are equal
• Renounce of activities prescribed by Animal
  Health Protection Measures Program according to
  the public auction, announced by the Ministry of
  Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
• Commission carry out a contest
• Minister makes a Decision

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE VETERINARY ACTIVITIES AND
THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Legal entity shall be established as
• veterinary practice
• veterinary station
• veterinary clinic
• veterinary pharmacy
• animal breeding and artificial insemination
  centres and
• laboratory

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE VETERINARY ACTIVITIES AND
THEIR ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• A licensed veterinarian that is not otherwise
  employed may establish
• veterinary practice if the requirements relating
  to facilities, premises and equipment for
  establishing a veterinary practice are
  fulfilled
• 2) veterinary pharmacy if the requirements
  relating to facilities, premises and equipment
  for establishing a veterinary pharmacy are
  fulfilled.

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REGISTRY

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Legal entity shall be registered in
• Registry of business operators
• Registry of Legal entities, which is kept by the
  Ministry
• If fulfil the requirements related to
• qualified personnel,
• premises (facility),
• technical conditions
• related equipment.

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REGISTRY

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Registration
• Registration is carried out on the basis of the
  request that a legal
• Entity files with the Ministry and a decision of
  the Minister
• confirming compliance with the Requirements for
  performing
• veterinary activities.
• Removal from the Registry
• A legal entity shall be removed from the Register
  if it, on its own
• decision, ceases performing veterinary
  activities, or if it ceases to
• comply with the stipulated veterinary
  requirements.

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VETERINARY PROFESSIONALS

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Veterinarian professionals are
• veterinarians - who has obtained a diploma of the
  VII degree of professional education and who has
  passed the experts exam may perform veterinary
  activities. Total number - 3722
• veterinary technicians - who has obtained a high
  school diploma of the IV degree of professional
  education and has passed the experts exam
  assists veterinarians
• performs activities under veterinarian
  supervision and
• may, under special circumstances, independently
  carry out certain surgical procedures (castration
  of swine).
• Veterinary technicians shall not
• carry out surgical procedures,
• make diagnoses,
• prescribe treatment
• not use medicines without supervision.

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VETERINARY PROFESSIONALS

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• INTERSHIP
• Veterinarians and veterinary technicians shall
  not carry out veterinary activities
• independently before they have served a
  veterinary internship and passed the
• experts exam.
• The internship period shall last for
• veterinarians - one year
• veterinary technicians - 6 months
• Veterinarians and veterinary technicians upon the
  completion of internship and
• before they complete the experts exam up to one
  year, shall be allowed to carry out
• certain veterinary activities under the direct
  supervision of a veterinarian.
• EXPERTS EXAM
• Upon the completion of the internship,
  veterinarians and veterinary technicians shall
• pass the experts exam within a period of 1
  year.
• Veterinarians and veterinary technicians shall
  take the experts exam in the presence

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Measures for Preventing Outbreaks of Infectious
  Diseases of
• Animals
• In order to protect animal and human health from
  animal diseases
• that can be transmitted to humans and to improve
  then activities
• related to the protection of animal health,
  documents for planning
• shall be designed.
• Planning documents referred to in paragraph 1 of
  this Article are
• Long-term strategy for animal health protection
• Programme of measures for protection of animal
  health
• Special animal health protection programmes.

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Long-term Strategy for Animal Health Control
• The Government shall bring the Long-term strategy
  for animal
• health control for a period of 5 years.
• The Long-term strategy shall stipulate the scope
  of measures for
• animal health protection an diagnostic methods
  for infectious
• disease for protection of animals against
  infectious diseases that can
• be transmitted to humans, stipulate the financial
  resources for its
• implementation that shall be provided from the
  budget of the
• Republic.

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Special Animal Health Protection Programmes
• Special animal health protection programmes shall
  be established in
• the case of outbreaks of extremely dangerous
  infectious and exotic
• diseases and for the prevention of the spread of
  endemic diseases.

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• PROGRAMME OF MEASURES FOR PROTECTION OF ANIMAL
  HEALTH
• In order to prevent the occurrence, early
  detection, spreading, monitoring,
• suppression and eradication of contagious animal
  diseases the Minister shall
• prescribe the Programme of Measures for Animal
  Health Protection at the latest
• by the end of January of the current year.
• The Programme of Measures shall stipulate
• the concrete measures,
• deadlines,
• modes of implementation,
• operators that shall implement the measures,
• source sand disposal of funds
• mode of control of the implementation of
  measures.
• Protection of humans against infectious diseases
  that can be transmitted from
• animals to humans shall be organised and
  implemented in cooperation with the

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Tender for the implementation of the Programme of
  Measures
• The Programme of Measures for Animal Health
  Protection related activities, defined as a
  matter
• of public interest, shall be offered to legal
  entities through a tender procedure launched by
  the
• Ministry and published in Official Gazette of
  the Republic of Serbia.
• Tender procedures shall not be launched for the
  following
• duties performed by the National Laboratory
• duties performed by public veterinary practices
  or veterinary stations referred to in Article 15
  of this Law
• duties performed by the veterinary service
• vaccination of dogs and cats against rabies.
• The Public Tender referred to in paragraph 1 of
  this Article shall include
• the type of public matters for which the tender
  shall be launched for
• implementation timeframe
• proof of compliance with requirements related to
  experience, results, and previous meeting of
  deadlines
• deadline for making and publishing a decision on
  selection of legal entity
• mode of communicating the results of the tender
  procedure.
• The tender referred to in paragraph 1 of this
  Article shall be managed by a Commission formed

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DISEASE SURVEILANCE

• Law on Veterinary Matters
• Contracts on Businesses of Public Interest
• Following the decision on selection, the Ministry
  shall conclude the contract
• with the legal entity authorised to implement the
  related businesses of
• public interest defining the following
• businesses of public interest that are subject of
  the contract
• area of implementation of businesses of public
  interest
• veterinarians that shall perform the related
  activities
• methods, modes, and procedures for implementation
  of businesses of public interest
• mutual rights, duties, and responsibilities
• office hours and the method of providing
  continual protection of animal health
• contract validity period
• sources of financing of businesses of public
  interest.

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PROGRAM OF MEASURESFOR THE ANIMAL HEALTH
PROTECTION 2008

• Identification and registration of animals,
  holdings and entering data in Central data base
• Zoo-sanitary and bio-safety measures
• Active surveillance
• Immune prophylaxis measures
• - vaccination CSF, ND, Rabies
• Diagnostic testing
• - highly contagious diseases and
  zoonoses
• - bovine animals for Brucellosis,
  Tuberculosis, Enzootic Bovine Leucosis and
• Blue Tongue disease
• - ovine and caprine for Brucellosis
  and Blue Tongue disease
• - Trichinelosis, Salmonelosls, Fowl
  Typhoid, Avian influenza, Avian
• Chlamidiosis, Equidae infectious
  anemia, Leptospirosis, Q
• fever, fish disease and bee disease
  and infection of bovine and ovine caused
• by aerobe and anaerobe
• Abortus program
• Diagnostic testing in centers for artificial
  insemination
• - bovine and pigs and diagnostic
  testing of breeding bulls and boars, intended
• for natural mating.

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PROGRAM OF MEASURESFOR THE ANIMAL HEALTH
PROTECTION FOR THE YEAR 2008

• 10. PLAN ON UNDERTAKING THE IMMUNE PROPHYLAXIS
  MEASURES AND DIAGNOSTIC CHECKS
• Undertaking of the activities according to the
  Program of Measures shell is carried
• out by Veterinary organizations contracted by the
  Ministry, with the exception of
• vaccination of dogs and cats which can be carried
  out by all veterinary organization
• according to the law.
• Veterinary Services shall conduct the Program of
  Measures for their own animal
• husbandry.
• Before conducting of immune prophylaxis measures
  and diagnostic checks veterinary
• organizations and veterinary services have to
  prepare plan and deliver it to the
• competent veterinary inspector. One copy of the
  plan verified by the authorized
• person from the veterinary organization and
  veterinary inspector have to be
• submitted to the competent institute. Institute
  compiles all received reports and
• report verified by signature and seal of the
  authorized person in the Institute and by
• Chief of veterinary inspection submits to the
  Ministry.

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ANIMAL HEALT CONTROL - 2008

• Animal Health CTRL program continous education
• Written procedures/instructions for every program
  (per species)
• Trainning of trainners (central level)
• Chief of regional vet. inspection
• Epizootiologists
• Local trainnings
• Headed by Chief of regional vet. inspection
• Vet. Stations
• Vet. Institutes
• Vet. inspectors
• Distribution of instructions
• Hands outs
• CD
• Internet
• V.I.M.S./LEGISLATIVE

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• Poultry
• Avian Influenza
• Approximation of legislative (2005/95/EC),
• Contingency Plan/Manual
• Strengthening of field activities (equipment,
  mobile teams for monitoring/eradication)
• Surveillance/Monitoring programs (poultry, wild
  birds, migratory birds)
• Diagnostic capacity building (3 labs with real
  time RT-PCR, 2 with BS L3)
• Rapid response (eradication) specialized teams
• awareness campaign
• Crisis management and communication

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• Poultry
• Newcastle Disease
• November 2006-June 2007 8 outbreaks
• 2008 NO outbreaks
• Compulsory vaccination
• Farms (holdings with more than 350 animals)
• Holdings (State budget, free for owners)
• New procedures
• Document management
• Registration of holdings
• Central data base (VIMS)

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• PIGS
• SCF new strategy for eradication
• stage 1 vaccination policy on 2006/07/08
• New legislation in preparation
• Sustainable financing
• Control of vaccination (traceability, laboratory
  investigation holdings, farms, slaughterhouses)
• Improvement of biosecurity measures on farms
• Movement control
• Awareness campaign
• Wildlife control
• stage 2 non vaccination policy
• New legislation,
• Full correspondence with EU rules

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• PIGS
• vaccination policy on 2006/07/08
• Financed from the budget of Republic of Serbia
• 2007 4.901.764 pigs (636.248.967 dinars)
• 2008 1.617.723 (209.980.445 dinars)
• Effects
• Significant decreasing of No of outbreaks
• Start of 2006 15 weekly (backyard holdings)
• Vend of 2006 1-2 weekly (backyard holdings)
• 2007 2-4 per month in total 17
• 2008 NO cases of outbreaks

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CSF Information Management

• Web based unique SW application (ORACLE)
• Data entered by authorized field vets
• condition for invoicing!!! ?
• Document management
• 1. Vaccination of pigs
• 4.664.405 (11. June 2007 TODAY 2.00. P.M.)
• 2. Identification of pigs
• New legislation
• 4.258.266 (11. June 2007 TODAY 2.00. P.M.)
• 3. Registration of holdings
• Simultaneously
• 250.093 holdings (11. June 2007 TODAY 2.00.
  P.M.)

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• Cattle
• Identification/Registration
• 2006/2007 finished first tagging campaign
• Until now
• 1.735.248 identified animals,
• N542.215 holdings
• Central Data Base fully operational
• Movement Management within CDB - implemented
• 2007-May training /instructions
• 2007/June - start
• 2007/August-december full implementation
  (Program of measures)

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAM IN 2008

• Cattle
• Animal Health Control program
• Implementation of Regulation 64/432/EEC
• Brucellosis
• Bovine tuberculosis
• Bovine leucosis
• Mastitis
• FMD free status (OIE, May 2006 confirmed in May
  2007)
• Rinderpest free status
• Blue tongue
• eradication/control program free status
  recognized (2004, 2005, 2006)
• Serological
• Virological
• Entomological investigation (sentinel farm, light
  traps)
• National legislative
• Rule book
• New regulation (drafted) approximation of EU
  legislation
• Free status in progress (2008)
• CBPP

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROJECT IN 2008

• Sheep and Goats
• Identification and registration of small
  ruminants September 2006 May 2008 (2.136.172)
• IR conducted along with the health control
  (sampling/testing on Brucelosis)
• Individual ear tags and sampling for every animal
  older than 6 months
• Central data base holds the data of the health
  control

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ANIMAL HEALTH PROJECT IN 2008

• Rabies
• Oral vaccination of foxes
• feasibility study,
• action plan
• Vaccination of dogs and cats (obliged)
• Identification (micrichips/tatoo) (obliged)
• Procurement of 300.000 vaccine
• Procurement of 200.000 microchips
• Passport (2003/803/EC, C(2003)4359)
• Central data base

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COMPULSORY NOTIFICATION OF ANIMAL DISEASES
Veterinary Directorate
SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL
REPORTING AND AUDIT
Contract
VETERINARIANS
FARMERS
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Animal Health Status
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Animal Health Status
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TRAINING 2008

• Disease No of outbreaks
• 2006 2007 (I-V) 2008

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VETERINARY DIRECTORATE

• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION