certificate of origin and health requirements for importation of live carps cyprinus carpio and their gametes into thailand for culture purpose. as there were reports of herpesvirus infection in koi car and common car in many countries. recently koi herpesvirus khv outbreaks in indonesia and japan caused severe damages to common car aquaculture in both countries. scientific evidence indicated that koi car were also affected by khv. movement of un-certified live carps and their gametes can easily spread the disease. therefore the department of fisheries dof has established a strategy to control trans-boundary movement of aquatic animal diseases using quarantine measures on imports as follows - pre-importation facilities of thai aquatic animal farms or companies have to achieve the quarantine standard of the dof before receiving an import permit. - arrival of aquatic animals and their gametes at the port the imported animals and their gametes must be accompanied with certificate of origin and health. the fish will be subjected to quarantine at the certified quarantine areas of the importing farms or companies. - post-importation aquatic animals will be quarantined for at least 21 days. fish health inspectors will examine the animals for diseases listed in the oie koi herpesvirus and other contagious pathogens. certificate of origin and health shall certify as follows 1 a health certificate must be presented at the port of entry together with the aquatic animal shipment. the health certificate must be issued by competent authority or authorised laboratories and signed by veterinarian authorised officer or inspector. the certificate shall contain information as follows name and address of consignee name size and number scientific and common name of common car and koi car origin of the common car and koi car to be exported. the common car and koi car must come from a country a zone or a farm establishment where they are submitted to a health supervision set u to operate according to the procedures described in the diagnostic manual for aquatic animal diseases from office international des epizooties oie and that this country zone or farm establishment is recognized officially unaffected by the oie listed diseases. if the test methods of any diseases are not designated in most recent edition of the oie diagnostic manual the pcr technique shall be used and must be stated its reference in the certificate. the lots of fish or fish shipments designated for exportation must be tested for koi herpesvirus using nested pcr technique. the test shall be done in the competent laboratory university or authorized laboratory. fish movement document shall be attached to prove the origin of the fish. the exported animals must not come from the sources that had an un-usual mortality during the previous 3 months which the causation could not be explained. before exportation the common car and koi car must be quarantined for 7-10 days and treated with chemicals to remove all external parasites. the exported common car and koi car must certify as indicated in the following table spring viraemia of car virus koi herpesvirus disease a health certificate attached below is just for convenient. we would encourage all exporting countries to use the attached health certificate to certify the exported carps into thailand. however other models of health certificates are also accepted if contained or certified as the attached health certificate. health certificate for the importation of live carps cyprinus carpio and their gametes into the kingdom of thailand place of issue .. address ... . . tel no fax no ..e-mail ... aquaculture establishment origin fish examined farm .. address . . tel . fax manager owner . .. species