# 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), Article 2a: Non-exotic disease-free status for a constituent GB territory


(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—
(a) the conditions in paragraph 2 and, where applicable, paragraph 3 are met; and
(b) the requirements for surveillance, buffer zones, sampling and diagnostic methods set out in Decision (EU) 2015/1554 have been met.
(2.) The first condition is that—
(a) none of the species susceptible to the disease in question are present in the constituent GB territory;
(b) the pathogen is known not to be able to survive in the constituent GB territory and its water source; or
(c) the conditions in Part 1 of Annex 5 to Directive 2006/88/EC are met.
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/177/article/2a (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-177/article-2a
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