Guidance for reporting 2024 surveillance data on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE)

This guidance is specifically aimed at guiding the reporting of information to EFSA under the framework of Regulation (EC) No 999/2001. The technical aspects for the reporting of surveillance data on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in bovine animals, scrapie and genotyping in small ruminants (sheep and goats) and chronic wasting disease in cervids are covered. The guidance explains the individual data elements of the Standard Sample Description version 2 (SSD2) model that are relevant for the data collection on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. This guidance is intended to support the reporting countries in data transmission using eXtensible Markup Language (XML) data file transfer through the Data Collection Framework according to the protocol described in the EFSA Guidance on Data Exchange version 2 (GDE2).