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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-437/annex/chapter-IV/division-8/division-8.F/division-8.23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-437/annex/chapter-IV/division-8/division-8.F/division-8.23.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/437",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 August 2006 approving a Diagnostic Manual for avian influenza as provided for in Council Directive 2005/94/EC (notified under document number C(2006) 3477) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/437/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-437",
  "path": "annex/chapter/IV/division/8/division/8.F/division/8.23",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "8.23",
  "heading": "Article 56(2)(i) — Preventive vaccination in poultry or other captive birds",
  "text": "Laboratory tests, as provided for in Chapter IX of Directive 2005/94/EC, must be performed on the vaccinated poultry or other captive birds using approved DIVA assays, where the field virus is known.\nWhen sentinel birds are used they must be present in each vaccinated flock, inspected clinically and be tested using the haemagglutination inhibition test (HI). For that purpose, 20 blood samples from the unvaccinated sentinels in each vaccinated holding must be taken at least every 60 days.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/437/annex/chapter/IV/division/8/division/8.F/division/8.23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:33.742537+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}