EU legislation

Directive 2003/99/EC (OJ L 325, p31, 12/12/2003) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents, amending Council Decision 90/424/EEC and repealing Council Directive 92/117/EEC

Amended by

• Council Directive 2006/104/EC (OJ L 363, p352, 20/12/206) of 20 November 2006

Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 (OJ L 325, p1, 12/12/2003) of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the control of salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents

Amended by Directive 2003/99/EC

• Commission Regulation (EC) No 1003/2005 (no longer in force) (OJ L 170, P12, 01/07/2005) of 30 June 2005
• Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (no longer in force) (OJ L 363, P1, 20/12/2006) of 20 November 2006
• Commission Regulation (EC) No 1237/2007 (no longer in force) (OJ L 280, p5, 24/10/2007) of 23 October 2007

National legislation

European Communities (Monitoring of Zoonoses) Regulations 2004 (S.I. No. 154 of 2004)

Zoonosis are defined in Directive 2003/99/EC as meaning “any disease and/or infection which is naturally transmissible directly or indirectly between animals and humans”.

The principal objective of Directive 2003/99/EC is to ensure that zoonoses, zoonotic agents and related antimicrobial resistance are properly monitored, and that food-borne outbreaks receive proper epidemiological investigation, in order to enable the collection in the European Community of the information necessary to evaluate relevant trends and sources of zoonoses.

Directive 2003/99/EC sets out the requirements for:

• the monitoring of zoonoses and zoonotic agents;
• the monitoring of related antimicrobial resistance;
• the epidemiological investigation of food-borne outbreaks; and
• the exchange of information related to zoonoses and zoonotic agents