Division 2.1 Risk-Based Surveillance (RBS)
United Kingdom
RBS shall be the preferred method for the carrying out of surveillance for avian influenza in a targeted and resource efficient way.
F1The appropriate Minister choosing that method shall specify the relevant risk pathways for infection of poultry flocks and the sampling frame for poultry holdings identified as being at a higher risk of becoming infected with avian influenza.
The criteria and risk factors listed in Section 4.1 are not exhaustive, but give an indication of how to target sampling and testing of poultry species and poultry production categories in different husbandry systems. Depending of the individual animal health situation F2..., they may need to be weighted differently.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Words in Annex 1 para. 2.1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 16(7)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
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Words in Annex 1 para. 2.1 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 16(7)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Notes on Division 2
Textual amendments
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Words in Annex 1 para. 2 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 16(7)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 25(13)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)