{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-94/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-94/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2005/94",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2005/94/EC of 20 December 2005 on Community measures for the control of avian influenza and repealing Directive 92/40/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2005-94",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Census and visits by the official veterinarian and surveillance",
  "text": "The competent authority shall ensure that the following measures are applied in protection zones:\n(a) a census of all the holdings is made as soon as possible;\n(b) all commercial holdings are visited by an official veterinarian as soon as possible for a clinical examination of the poultry and other captive birds and, if necessary, the collection of samples for laboratory tests in accordance with the diagnostic manual; a record of such visits and the findings thereof shall be kept; non-commercial holdings are visited by an official veterinarian before the lifting of the protection zone;\n(c) additional surveillance is immediately implemented in accordance with the diagnostic manual in order to identify any further spread of avian influenza in the holdings located in the protection zone.",
  "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/2005/94/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:39.248195+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."
}