Regulations of Hubei Province on Animal Epidemic Prevention (202 1 Revision)

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to strengthen the management of animal epidemic prevention activities, prevent, control, purify and eliminate animal epidemics, promote the development of aquaculture, prevent and control zoonotic infectious diseases, and ensure public health and human health and safety, these Regulations are formulated in accordance with the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on Animal Epidemic Prevention and other laws and administrative regulations, combined with the actual situation of this province. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to animal epidemic prevention and its supervision and management activities within the administrative area of this province.

Other laws and regulations shall apply to the quarantine of entry and exit animals and animal products and the epidemic prevention of experimental animals. Article 3 Animal epidemic prevention shall follow the principle of combining prevention with control, purification with elimination, and establish a working mechanism of government leading, industry self-discipline and social co-governance. Article 4 The people's governments at or above the county level shall exercise unified leadership over the animal epidemic prevention work within their respective administrative areas, establish and improve the animal epidemic prevention system and public service institutions for animal epidemic prevention, strengthen the construction of animal epidemic prevention teams, formulate and organize the implementation of animal epidemic prevention plans, and incorporate the animal epidemic prevention work into the assessment of the target responsibility system.

The people's governments at or above the county level shall incorporate the prevention and control of infectious diseases of people and livestock into the public health system, and plan, construct and implement them simultaneously.

Township people's governments and neighborhood offices shall, with the assistance of villagers' committees and residents' committees, organize animal feeding and compulsory immunization surveys in their respective areas, as well as harmless treatment of dead animals and sick animal products, and assist in the emergency response and control of animal epidemics. Fifth people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the overall coordination, service guidance, supervision and management of animal epidemic prevention work within their respective administrative areas.

The development and reform, public security, finance, ecological environment, urban management, transportation, commerce, health, market supervision and management, wildlife protection and other departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall do a good job in animal epidemic prevention within their respective functions and duties. Sixth animal health supervision institutions of the people's governments at or above the county level shall be responsible for the quarantine of animals and animal products and related supervision and management.

Animal disease prevention and control institutions of the people's governments at or above the county level shall undertake the technical work of prevention and control of animal diseases, such as monitoring, detection, diagnosis, epidemiological investigation and epidemic report; To undertake the technical work of purifying and eliminating animal diseases. Article 7 Units and individuals engaged in animal breeding, slaughtering, management, isolation, transportation, diagnosis and treatment, and the production, management, processing, storage and transportation of animal products shall, in accordance with laws, regulations and relevant provisions of the state, do a good job in immunization, disinfection, detection, isolation, purification, elimination, harmless treatment, epidemic reporting and relevant information recording, and undertake relevant animal epidemic prevention responsibilities. Article 8 The agricultural and rural departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen their support, guidance and services to animal epidemic prevention-related industry organizations.

Industry organizations related to animal epidemic prevention should strengthen industry self-discipline, improve industry norms, guide members to engage in animal epidemic prevention, diagnosis and treatment, production and operation of animals and animal products according to law, and promote the construction of industry integrity. Ninth people's governments at all levels and relevant departments should strengthen the publicity and popularization of laws, regulations and knowledge related to animal epidemic prevention, and support units and individuals to participate in animal epidemic prevention publicity and education, epidemic report, voluntary service and donation activities. Chapter II Prevention of Animal Diseases Article 10 People's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen the construction of animal disease monitoring network system, and improve the working mechanisms of animal disease monitoring information network direct reporting, emergency response, prevention and control cooperation, etc.

The competent agricultural and rural departments of the provincial people's government shall, according to the national animal disease monitoring plan, scientifically arrange and reasonably set up monitoring points, formulate the animal disease monitoring plan of this province and organize its implementation.

Animal disease prevention and control institutions are responsible for assisting the competent agricultural and rural departments in organizing the implementation of animal disease monitoring plans, and collecting, analyzing, evaluating, consulting and reporting monitoring information in a timely manner; Relevant units and individuals shall cooperate with animal epidemic monitoring and shall not refuse or hinder it. Article 11 The competent agricultural and rural departments of the provincial people's government shall, jointly with health, ecological environment, wildlife protection and other departments and scientific research institutes, establish an animal disease risk assessment system, set up a major animal disease risk assessment expert group, and regularly carry out animal disease risk assessment.

Animal epidemic risk assessment shall analyze and study the epidemiological investigation, monitoring points, laboratory testing, epidemic prevention and quarantine work, judge the epidemic risk, and timely issue early warning of animal epidemic according to the prediction of the occurrence and epidemic trend of animal epidemic.

The people's governments at or above the county level and the relevant departments shall, according to the early warning of animal epidemics, timely implement corresponding measures to prevent, control, purify and eliminate animal epidemics. Twelfth provincial people's government departments in charge of agriculture and rural areas shall formulate the compulsory immunization plan of this province; According to the epidemic situation of animal diseases in this province, the diseases and areas of animal diseases that are subject to compulsory immunization will be increased, which will be implemented after the approval of the provincial people's government and reported to the competent agricultural and rural departments of the State Council for the record.

The competent agricultural and rural departments of the people's governments of cities (prefectures) and counties shall formulate the annual compulsory immunization implementation plan according to the annual compulsory immunization plan of the province, and be responsible for organizing the implementation and evaluating the implementation effect in accordance with the provisions.