— take any other measures necessary to safeguard public health, which may include prohibiting animals from leaving the farm concerned or products from leaving the farm or establishment concerned for a set period;
— order that the operator takes appropriate action to address the causes of the non-compliance;
— perform additional official controls to verify that action taken by the operator, to address the cause of non-compliance is effective. This may include taking as many follow-up samples as considered necessary in relation to animals or products from the same farm or establishment.
2. In the event of repeated non-compliance by the same operator, the competent authority shall perform regular additional official controls, including sampling and analysis, on the animals and products from the operator concerned for a period of at least six months from the date on which the second non-compliance was established. It shall also order the operator to ensure that the concerned animals and the carcases, meat, offal, by-products, milk, eggs and honey from these animals are kept separate from other animals, that they do not leave the farm or establishment of origin and are not handed over to any other person without prior authorisation of the competent authority.
3. If the operator fails to take all necessary measures to comply with the orders of the competent authority in accordance with this Article, the competent authority shall take measures having the same effect, at the expense of the operator.
Article 6
Follow-up of illegal treatments and the possession of prohibited or unauthorised substances or products
1. Where substances within the scope of Directive 96/22/EC, prohibited or unauthorised substances or products are discovered in the possession of non-authorised persons, thereby creating a suspicion of illegal treatment, those substances or products shall be placed under official detention until the measures provided for under paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Article are taken by the competent authority, without prejudice to the subsequent destruction of the products and the possible imposition of penalties on the offender(s).
2. Where illegal treatment is established or where substances falling under the scope of Directive 96/22/EC, prohibited or unauthorised substances or products are discovered in the possession of non-authorised operators or persons, the competent authority shall:
— place or keep the livestock and the carcases, meat, offal and by-products of the animals concerned by the illegal treatment together with the milk, eggs and honey from those animals under official detention as provided for in Article 4(4)(b);
— take samples from all relevant batches of animals belonging to the farm.
— order the operator to kill the animal or animals for which illegal treatment has been established, and to dispose them as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;
— declare all carcases or products concerned by the illegal treatment unfit for human consumption and order the operator to dispose of them as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;
3. For the purposes of paragraph 2:
— all animals of the batch or batches from which one or more animals were confirmed to have been subject to an illegal treatment with prohibited or unauthorised substances shall be considered to have been also subject to an illegal treatment, unless the competent authority, at the request and at the expense of the operator, agrees to perform additional official controls on all animals of the relevant batch or batches to ascertain that no illegal treatment took place in relation to those animals.