The Danish Transport Standard

The DANISH Transport Standard covers following:

• Hauliers of live cloven-hoofed animals
• Collection centres
• Exporters / DanBred vendors
• Cleaning and disinfection stations

To register the Declaration of Accession must be filled in and forwarded to the Certification body stated below and email to Baltic Control Certification, cert@balticcontrol.com. Telephone number +45 39 39 01 35.

The Certification body conducts an independent approval of the registered parties. Approved parties are registered on pigresearchcentre.dk/Standards/The-Danish-Transport-Standard

A DANISH-certificate is issued to approved parties. Furthermore, the Certification body will conduct inspections and monitor compliance with the requirements of the Standard on behalf of SEGES Pig Research Centre, Danish Agriculture & Food Council.

At all times the responsibility lies with the individual haulier to comply with the requirements in the Standard and to remain updated on any new requirements in the Standard.

All parties involved are independently liable, and in cases where several parties are involved, each party is individually liable. The latest standards and information can be found here.

Any queries as for the understanding of the Standard’s regulations, and any dispute shall be settled according to Danish law and at the Danish Agriculture & Food Council’s DBMC Arbitration.

25. januar 2021

For two years, the Belgian authorities have fought African Swine Fever with the result that Belgium now is free from the disease. According to the DANISH Transport Standard, the zones have been changed around Belgium. 

The changes for Belgium, France and Luxembourg are: 

Belgium

• Belgium is now green.

France

• France is now green.

Luxembourg 

• Luxembourg is now green.   

24. November 2020

For two years, the Belgian authorities have fought African Swine Fever with the resultat that Belgium now is free from the disease. According to the DANISH Tranportstandard, the zones have been changed around Belgium. The changes for Belgium, Holland, Germany and France are:

Belgium

There are no black zones left - but one red zone:

• Wallonien

Holland

Holland is again green.

Tyskland

These areas are green:

• Saarland
• Rheinland-Pfalz
• Regierungsbezirk Köln

Frankrig

No black zones - but these areas are red: 

• Meuse
• Meurthe et Moselle 
• Marne 
• Ardennes 
• Aisne

30. September 2020

A new case of ASF has occurred in Germany

Yesterday, on September 30, 2020, African swine fever was found in yet another dead wild boar close to Bleyen approx. 80 km north of the previous findings. The area is already a black zone in the DANISH Transport Standard.

Due to the new outbreak, the following areas have now been added as black zones:

• Uckemark
• Barnum
• Berlin

Black zones in Germany:

• Berlin

• Brandenburg, the following Kreise/counties:
  • Spree-Neiße
  • Märkisch-Oderland
  • Oder-Spree
  • Dahme-Spreewald
  • Cottbus
  • Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Elbe-Elster
  • Uckemark
  • Barnum

• Sachsen, the following Kreise/counties:
  • Görlitz
  • Meißen
  • Stadt Dresden
  • Bautzen
  • Sächsische Schweiz

10. September 2020

ASF has hit Germany

The German authorities have today confirmed that ASF has been detected in a wild boar near the German-Polish border in the Landkreis/county Oder-Spree in the state of Brandenburg. The area is already black in the DANISH Transport Standard. 

Due to the new outbreak, the following areas have now been added as black zones:

• Elbe-Elster
• Oberspreewald-Lausitz
• Meißen
• Stadt Dresden
• Bautzen
• Sächsische Schweiz

Black zones in Germany:

• Brandenburg, the following Kreise/counties:
  • Spree-Neiße
  • Märkisch-Oderland
  • Oder-Spree
  • Dahme-Spreewald
  • Cottbus
  • Frankfurt (Oder)
  • Elbe-Elster

• Sachsen, the following Kreise/counties:
  • Görlitz
  • Meißen
  • Stadt Dresden
  • Bautzen
  • Sächsische Schweiz

24. January 2020

Black zones:

• Brandenburg, the following districts/counties:
  • Spree-Neiße
  • Märkisch-Oderlan
  • Oder-Spree
  • Dahme-Spreewald
  • Cottbus
  • Frankfurt (Oder)

• Sachsen, the following districts/counties:
  • Görlitz

Red zones:

• All of Sachsen

• Brandenburg, the following districts/counties:
  • Barnim
  • Elbe-Elster
  • Havelland
  • Oberhavel
  • Oberspreewald-Lausitz
  • Potsdam-Mittelmark
  • Teltow-Fläming
  • Uckermark
  • Brandenburg an der Havel
  • Potsdam
  • Ostprignitz-Ruppin

• Mecklenburg-Vorpommerne:
  • Mecklenburgische Seenplatte
  • Vorpommern-Greifswald

• All of Berlin

• Sachsen-Anhalt, the following districts/counties:
  • Wittenberg

6. January 2020

Red zones in Germany

ZIP-codes 04, 02 and parts of 01 in Sachsen
ZIP-codes 03, 15 and parts of 16 in Brandenburg 
Parts of ZIP-code 17 in Vorpommern

4. December 2019

ASF moves closer to the German border

9 new outbreaks of ASF has been found in Poland – just around 40 km from the border to Germany. The outbreaks were found around the cities Nowgrod Bobrzanski and Zielona Góra.

The red zones in Germany, which were introduced on November 16th 2019, are still effective.

There are no changes in the risk map of DANISH Transport Standard.

Please see map below under 'Risk zones - an overview'.

16. November 2019 

Expanded black zones in Poland

The provinces Zachodnio-pomorskie, Lubiskie og Dolnoslaskie in the western Poland are with immediate effect BLACK ZONES.
ASF has jumped 300 km west and is now approx. 80 km from the German border. ASF has been found in a traffic-killed wild boar in the middle of Lubiskie province. The Polish authorities allegedly consider it as an isolated case with no direct connection to the outbreaks in eastern Poland. It is expected that human activity has caused the outbreak in Lubiskie.

Red zones in Germany

Because of the black zones in Poland, following zones in Germany are now RED ZONES:

• ZIP-code 02 in Sachsen
• ZIP-code 03 in Brandenburg
• ZIP-code 15 in Brandenburg
• ZIP-code 16 in  Brandenburg
• ZIP-code 17 in Vorpommern

Please see map below under 'Risk zones - an overview'.

14. August 2019

In relation to ASF outbreaks in Bulgaria, black zones have been introduced in North Macedonia and in following Greek regions: West Macedonia, Central Macedonia and Thrakia (see map below).

24. April 2019

Czech Republic confirms eradication of ASF. Therefore the black zone in Czech has been changed into red zone. 

5. December 2018

Risk zones in western Europe have been changed!

Black zones

• Belgium: Wallonia
• Luxembourg
• France: Nord, Meuse, Meurthe et Moselle, Marne, Ardennes, Aisne
• Serbia

Red zones

• Belgium: (Flanders, Bruxelles)
• Holland: Limburg
• Germany: Rheinland Pfalz, Saarland, Regierungsbezirk Köln in Nordhrein-Westfalen
• Frankrig: Vosges, Val d’Oise, Somme, Seine et Marne, Pas de Calais, Oise, Moselle, Haute Marne, Aube, Bas-Rhin

New green zones

• Switzerland
• Norway, Troms og Finnmark, stay red zones

To avoid outbreaks of African Swine Fever in Denmark, an increased state of alert has been introduced for vehicles arriving from abroad.

DANISH-approved hauliers and vehicles are not allowed to drive direct to Danish herds, if they have driven in black zones within the past seven days.

The first 7 days after having finished cleaning and disinfection at one of the DANISH-approved cleaning and disinfection stations, they can drive to DANISH-approved collection centres only.

For DANISH-approved hauliers and their vehicles, that have NOT driven inside black zones within the past 7 days the ordinary state of alert in the DANISH Transport Standard applies (see: quarantines for vehicles).

When moving animals between Danish herds, a minimum of 48 hours of quarantine even at green and yellow certificates must be respected.
During a period of increased alert there are three different standard quarantines related to direct exports from DANISH approved herds (collection centres excluded):
7 days → (black wash certificate)
48 hours → (red wash certificate)
12 hours → (yellow wash certificate)

Dynamic quarantines

If a new quarantine is obtained within an already imposed quarantine, the total quarantine will change and adapt to the new quarantine, in case the new one is longer than the previous.

Check the vehicle from mobile phone or tablet

You can check the cleaning and disinfection status of your vehicle from any given smartphone, tablet or computer.
Download the app from App Store or Google Play Store by typing "tjekvogn".

Cleaning and disinfection times by text message

In order to check the status of your vehicles transporting live animals, you can choose to receive a text message notifying you about the last time a vehicle has been cleaned and disinfected.

Simply send a text message to + 45 5129 1070 including the vehicle number, or number of the trailer and shortly after you will receive a reply informing you about the recent time of cleaning and disinfection of the vehicle. It makes no difference, whether you use space, or lower- and upper-case letters in the text message.

Example:
Send text message with the vehicle’s number: BEAK31 to +45 5129 1070
Answer: Latest wash for 'BEAK31':  01/06-2019, 07:22

A safety wash is defined by the DANISH Transport Standard as a combination of a soap wash plus subsequent cleaning and disinfection on a DANISH-approved soap, cleaning and disinfecting station.

A “safety wash” is limited to vehicles that have driven in high risk areas (red areas) and have been issued a red cleaning certificate. This as a starting point, safety cleaning may be performed whereby the quarantine is reduced from 48 to 12 hours for direct transports abroad. However, a minimum of 48-hours-quarantine applies for transports between Danish herds, or from Danish herds to collection centres or slaughterhouses.

An additional cleaning with soap and disinfection on critical parts of vehicle provides adequate safety that SPF-approved vehicles may have a shortened quarantine.

Due to the increased spreading of African Swine Fever (ASF) in for instance Poland and the Baltic countries, an increased state of alert (black area) was introduced to the DANISH Transport Standard on October 1, 2016.

This increased state of alert means, that vehicles which, within the last seven days, have driven in areas included in the increased state of alert, must comply with a seven-day-quarantine, if loading takes place directly from a herd. By an exterior soap wash, a wash certificate can be changed from black into red. 

Please observe that the individual cleaning and disinfecting stations will charge a fixed price for external soap cleanings.

DANISH-approved washing and disinfecting stations

Approved oxidizing materials for disinfection

Approved cleaning materials

General Personal Data Policy for the Danish Agriculture & Food Council (Landbrug & Fødevarer, L&F) is available here. 

Specific Personal Data Policy for the DANISH Transport Standard

Registered data

• The DANISH-approved cleaning and disinfection station registers the following data on a wash certificate:
• Vehicle registration number, country code and mileage of the truck, trailer, tractor unit and semi-trailer
• Name of haulier, address, phone number, email, number of authorization and QS status
• Name of driver
• CHR number or name of herd from which the vehicle consequently will collect animals
• Information on the subsequent freight
• Information on the service supplied, including the number of the certificate, time of cleaning and disinfection, time of quarantine, cleaning of boots, sorting panels, sorting paddles and wood shavings.

Additional registrations

• The haulier's CVR number, QS number, name of the exporter
• Transport details from the Pig movement database (svineflyttedatabasen) and the Cattle database (kvægdatabasen)
• GPS data from DANISH-approved hauliers who carry out national transports.
• Other hauliers who drive to DANISH-herds.

Use of data

The collected data is used by the Danish Agriculture & Food Council to secure the biosecurity in Danish agriculture and to comply with our legal obligations according to DANISH Transport Standard and DANISH Product Standard.

Correction of data

When contacting DANISH Transport Standard, you may have your data changed, your consent withdrawn or your agreement of being DANISH-certified terminated.

Storage of data

• Photographic data is stored up to 2 years
• GPS data is stored up to 2 years
• Cleaning and disinfecting certificates are stored according to legal requirements
• Data concerning the movement of animals is stored according to legal requirements
• Analysis of data regarding the movement of animals and data from the cleaning and disinfecting certificates are stored according to legal requirements.
• Data supply to third parties

In relation to our administrative procedures according to DANISH Transport Standard and DANISH Product Standard, we supply the relevant data to farmers, hauliers, exporters, slaughterhouses and collection centres as well as the Danish authorities (Fødevarestyrelsen) in order to secure the biosecurity in Danish agriculture.

Further information about the storage of personal data and your rights can be found under paragraph 7 and 8 here.

DANISH TRANSPORT STANDARD

Current version 

Corrigendum to DANISH Transport Standard

ANNEXES TO DANISH TRANSPORT STANDARD

Declaration of participation 

Declaration of participation - swine

Declaration of participation - cattle

Beitrittserklärung - Schwein

Beitrittserklärung - Rinder

Technical appendices

Increased alert - Technical appendix

Erhöhte Bereitschaft - Technik Info

Requirements for GPS-Reports

GPS requirements

Anforderungen an GPS-Rapporte 

Transporting living pigs

Important advice before transporting pigs

Picture library

Photo archive of clean and dirty transport vehicles

Video material

Follow the DANISH Youtube channel

General information about DANISH Transport Standard

DANISH Transport Standard vs. Danish Veterinary and Food Administration