{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-590/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-590/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2007/590",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 27 August 2007 on introducing preventive vaccination against highly pathogenic avian influenza and related provisions for movements in the Netherlands (notified under document number C(2007) 3977) (Only the Dutch text is authentic) (2007/590/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-590",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Conditions for implementing the preventive vaccination plan",
  "text": "1. The Netherlands shall ensure that the preventive vaccination of backyard poultry and organic and free-range layers is carried out in accordance with the preventive vaccination plan with an inactivated heterologous vaccine of avian influenza subtype H5 or with a bivalent inactivated heterologous vaccine containing both avian influenza subtypes H5 and H7 authorised by that Member State or the Community in accordance with Directive 2001/82/EC or Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.\n2. The Netherlands shall ensure that intensive monitoring and surveillance, as set out in the preventive vaccination plan is carried out in the backyard poultry and flocks of organic or free-range layers where preventive vaccination is carried out.\n3. The Netherlands shall ensure that the preventive vaccination plan is implemented efficiently.",
  "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/2007/590/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:05.688231+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."
}