Chapter 5
5 Reviewing and Exercising the Plan
5.1 The Deputy Director for SG Rural Directorate's Animal Health and Welfare Division will be responsible for reviewing this plan on an annual basis, consulting as appropriate with SG partners, operational partners and stakeholders. Amendments will be made to the plan in the light of changes in policy, organisational structures, responsibilities and scientific knowledge.
5.2 In order to maintain a state of readiness, in the absence of disease, it is necessary to exercise the plan and train appropriate staff on a regular basis. The scale, nature and frequency of such exercises will depend on the organisational role and responsibilities and the levels of existing training and experience within any organisation which has a role to play in disease control. Under EU law there is a requirement to have a major National animal disease exercise involving all partners every two to three years in the absence of an actual disease outbreak. The lessons learnt from exercises or from dealing with outbreaks of disease will inform revisions to this plan.