{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-896/annex/division-2/division-2.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-896/annex/division-2/division-2.1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/896",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 20 November 2008 on guidelines for the purpose of the risk-based animal health surveillance schemes provided for in Council Directive 2006/88/EC (notified under document number C(2008) 6787) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/896/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-896",
  "path": "annex/division/2/division/2.1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "2.1",
  "heading": "CHECKING OF RECORDS AND CLINICAL EXAMINATIONS",
  "text": "Each inspection of a farm or mollusc farming area should consist of an analysis of the records provided for in regulations 6(2) and 7(2) of the Aquatic Animal Health Regulations, with particular attention being paid to the mortality records, in order to enable an assessment to be made of the health status track-record of the farm or mollusc farming area.\nA representative selection of all epidemiological units should be inspected.\nIf available, a representative selection of recently dead and moribund aquaculture animals should be examined clinically, both externally and internally, for major pathological changes. That examination should, in particular, aim at detecting any infection with a disease listed in Annex 1A to Regulation 1251/2008 (a listed disease).\nIf the outcome of that examination leads to any suspicion of the presence of such a disease, the aquaculture animals in the farm or mollusc farming area should be subjected to laboratory examination.\nDetailed rules on actions to be taken in cases of suspicion and/or confirmation of a listed disease are laid down in Part 4 of the Aquatic Animal Health Regulations.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex para. 2.1 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(8)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex para. 2.1 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex para. 2.1 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 7(8)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/896/annex/division/2/division/2.1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:38.947389+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."
}