The Law establishes fines of up to 1.2 million euros if the measures against bird flu are not complied with

Non-compliance or failure to cooperate with anti-bird flu measures may be punished with fines up to They range from 600 euros to 1.2 million eurosaccording to severity, as established by the Animal Health Law. Specifically, the legislation differentiates several types of fines according to the infractions: for very serious ones, range between 60,001 to 1,200,000 euros; for the serious ones, It is established between 3,001 and 60,000 euros; and for the lighter sanctions, between 600 and 3,000 euros or a warning. The rule adds that “the upper limit of the fines provided for in this article may be exceeded by up to double the benefit obtained by the offender, when said benefit exceeds the maximum amount of the fine.”

The Animal Health Law defines serious infractions, among others, lack of communication of the death of the production animalwhen said communication is required by the applicable regulations or the lack of notification by slaughterhouses of entries and sacrifices of animals from areas affected by an epizootic.

Concealment, false data…

Also considered serious is concealmentlack of communication, or its communication exceeding twice the established period, of animal diseases that are mandatory declaration or notificationas long as they do not have the character of special virulence, extreme severity and rapid diffusion, nor are they zoonoses.

Another serious violation is the declaration of false data about production animals or the failure to care for animals or lack of communication; the omission of screening tests. The sanction will be graduated depending on the circumstances of the person responsiblethe characteristics of the farm or the production system, the degree of fault, repetition, participation, the benefit obtained or expected to be obtained, the number of animals affected, the damage caused or the danger to the health of people or the health of animals.