{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-177/article-2a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-177/article-2a.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2009/177",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 31 October 2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards surveillance and eradication programmes and disease-free status of Member States, zones and compartments (notified under document number C(2008) 6264) (Text with EEA relevance) (2009/177/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-177",
  "path": "article/2a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2a",
  "heading": "Non-exotic disease-free status for a constituent GB territory",
  "text": "(1.) The appropriate authority for a constituent GB territory may declare that territory free of one or more of the non-exotic diseases listed in Annex 1A to Regulation 1251/2008 if—\n(a) the conditions in paragraph 2 and, where applicable, paragraph 3 are met; and\n(b) the requirements for surveillance, buffer zones, sampling and diagnostic methods set out in Decision (EU) 2015/1554 have been met.\n(2.) The first condition is that—\n(a) none of the species susceptible to the disease in question are present in the constituent GB territory;\n(b) the pathogen is known not to be able to survive in the constituent GB territory and its water source; or\n(c) the conditions in Part 1 of Annex 5 to Directive 2006/88/EC are met.\n(3.) Where adjoining constituent GB territories or water catchment areas shared with a neighbouring constituent GB territory are not declared disease-free, the second condition is that appropriate buffer zones have been established to protect the disease-free territory from passive introduction of the disease.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Arts. 2a-2d inserted (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), 9(5)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}