{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2006/88",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2006/88/EC of 24 October 2006 on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "National notification",
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that:\n(a) when there are any reasons to suspect the presence of a disease listed in Part II of Annex IV, or the presence of such disease is confirmed in aquatic animals, the suspicion and/or the confirmation is immediately notified to the competent authority;\nand\n(b) when increased mortality occurs in aquaculture animals, the mortality is immediately notified to the competent authority or a private veterinarian for further investigations.\n2. Member States shall ensure that the obligations to notify the matters referred to in paragraph 1 are imposed on:\n(a) the owner and any person attending aquatic animals;\n(b) any person accompanying aquaculture animals during transport;\n(c) veterinary practitioners and other professionals involved in aquatic animal health services;\n(d) official veterinarians, senior staff of veterinary or other official or private laboratories;\nand\n(e) any other person with an occupational relationship to aquatic animals of susceptible species or to products of such animals.",
  "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/2006/88/article/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:33.340146+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."
}