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  "long_title": "This Order (read with the Animal Health Act 1981) further implements Council Directive 92/40/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of avian influenza (O.J. No. L 167, 22.6.92, p.1) and Council Directive 92/66/EEC introducing Community measures for the control of Newcastle disease (O.J. No. L 260, 5.9.92, p.1) (“the Directives”). The Directives were previously implemented by the Diseases of Poultry Order 1994 (“the 1994 Order”) and the Diseases of Poultry (Amendment) Order 1997, both revoked by this Order. This Order, like the Directives, now applies to ratites.",
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