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
- Movement Restrictions and Treatments
Required Under the FMD Directive
(38 KB). - FMD Emergency vaccination - Question and Answer brief
- The role of vaccination
in a future outbreak of FMD (95 KB).
- Emergency FMD Vaccination Project
Board - Foot-and-Mouth Disease Control Policy Communications Strategy (122 KB)
- Emergency Vaccination Protocol (60 KB)
- Vaccination (97 KB)
- Disease control slaughter protocol
- Derogation for Zoos & Wildlife Parks
- Movement controls on livestock and
marketing conditions for meat and milk (30 KB)
Legislation
The legislation to deal with future outbreaks of FMD is as follows:
- The Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Regulations 2007 (36 KB)
- The Export and Movement Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.2) Regulations 2007 (94 KB)
- The Export and Movement Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Regulations 2007 (100 KB)
- The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.6) Regulations 2007 (93 KB)
- The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.5) Regulations 2007 (167 KB)
- The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.4) Regulations 2007 (167 KB)
- The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.3) Regulations 2007 (66 KB)
- The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export Restrictions) Regulations 2007 (122 KB)
- Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (No 2) Regulations 2007 (117 KB)
- Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) Regulations 2007 (108 KB)
- The Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 2005
- The
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (England) Order 2006 (Link to OPSI website)
- The
Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) (England) Regulations
2006 (Link to OPSI website)
- Explanatory
Memorandum to AHA 1981(Amendment) Regulations (Link to OPSI website)
- Explanatory
Memorandum to FMD Order and Vacc Regs (Link to OPSI website)
- Regulatory Impact Assessment (89 KB)
- England Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) Regulations 2007 (70 KB)
EU Directive
A EU Directive on measures to control foot-and-mouth disease was adopted at Agriculture Council on 29 September 2003.
- EU Commission Decision 2007/554/EC (82 KB) - Concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and
repealing Decision 2007/552/EC (9 August 2007).
- FMD Directive Q & A (32 KB)
- Foot and mouth disease: scientific
problem and recent progress 2nd annual report (2004) prepared for Defra,
Science Directorate (161 KB)
- Definition of “Farm Animal Genetic Resources” to meet requirements under the new EU foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) Directive.
- EU Directive on FMD –
Background (88 KB)
- Council Directive on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease (Link to EU website).
- Foot-and-mouth disease: scientific
problems and recent progress 1st annual report (2003) prepared for Defra,
Science Directorate (456 KB).
- Defra Introduction to IAH Report on FMD
Science (65 KB)
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.- Cost Benefit Analysis of FMD Report (2.2 MB) - Please note: this is a very large file.
Supporting CBA documents
- FMD CBA Epidemiological Model Specification
and Description (1.25 MB)
- Economic consequences Model: Input
data and modelling assumptions (536 KB)
- CBA of Foot and Mouth Disease
Control Strategies: Environmental Impacts (1005 KB)
- CBA of Foot-and-Mouth
Disease Control Strategies: Tourism Damage and Disruption of Countryside
Pursuits
(1.81 MB) - Cost-Benefit Analysis of
Foot-and_Mouth Disease Control Strategies: Wider Economic Costs (592 KB)
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 (1.67 MB - Please note this is a large file).
See also
- International trade - Customer Information Notes and Importer Information Notes.
- Table of Exotic Notifiable Disease Investigations.
- FMD Expert Group
- Stakeholder Engagement - Progress on discussions with Stakeholders in the food chain on FMD Control strategies.
- Modelling Exercise
Page last modified:
14 January, 2008