{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2003-85/article-60",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2003-85/article-60.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2003/85",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2003/85/EC of 29 September 2003 on Community measures for the control of foot-and-mouth disease repealing Directive 85/511/EEC and Decisions 89/531/EEC and 91/665/EEC and amending Directive 92/46/EEC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2003-85",
  "path": "article/60",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "60",
  "heading": "Recovery of status following eradication of foot-and-mouth disease without emergency vaccination",
  "text": "1. A Member State or region of a Member State regionalised in accordance with Article 45 shall recover its previous foot-and-mouth disease and infection free status following the control and eradication of one or more outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease without vaccination under the following conditions:\n(a) all the measures provided for in Articles 36 and 44 have been completed, and\n(b) at least one of the following conditions applies:\n(i) the relevant recommendations in the foot-and-mouth disease Chapter, as last amended, of the Animal Health Code of the OIE are met;\n(ii) at least three months have elapsed after the last recorded outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease and clinical and laboratory surveillance carried out in accordance with Annex III has confirmed the absence of infection with the foot-and-mouth disease virus in the Member State or region concerned.\n2. Decisions on recovering a foot-and-mouth disease and infection-free status shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to Article 89(3).",
  "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/eudr/2003/85/article/60",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:52.569704+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."
}