FMD: Policy and legislation

Contingency plan

Defra's revised Contingency Plan for Exotic Animal Diseases was laid before Parliament on 13 December 2007. The plan covers arrangements for dealing with a range of exotic animal diseases, including Foot and Mouth Disease, Avian Influenza and, for the first time, Rabies and Bluetongue. Further information...

Methods of Disease Control

Legislation

The legislation to deal with future outbreaks of FMD is as follows:

EU Directive

A EU Directive on measures to control foot-and-mouth disease was adopted at Agriculture Council on 29 September 2003.

Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) of Foot and Mouth Disease Control

The CBA Report investigates costs and benefits of a variety of FMD control strategies. Risk Solutions carried out the project in consultation with Defra. The Cost Benefit Analysis Report looks at a series of possible scenarios and analyses the financial impacts of a variety of responses to them.
Supporting CBA documents

Exercise Hornbeam

The primary purpose of Exercise Hornbeam was to test Defra’s current Contingency Plans for an outbreak of FMD. A series of tabletop exercises focussing on particular stages of disease progression was held prior to a real-time two-day national exercise that specifically considered decisions to be taken at days 7 and 8 of an outbreak. The final exercise built on decisions taken at the earlier exercises which looked at the initial disease phases of suspicion, confirmation and regional spread of FMD.

A report on Exercise Hornbeam - A series of linked exercises testing Government’s Foot and Mouth Disease emergency preparedness, January - June 2004 (PDF 1.67 MB - Please note this is a large file).

 

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