{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88/article-39",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88/article-39.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/39",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Containment measures",
  "text": "In the case of confirmation of a non-exotic disease listed in Part II of Annex IV in a Member State, zone or compartment not declared free of that disease, the Member State concerned shall take measures to contain the disease.\nThose measures shall at least consist of:\n(a) declaring the farm or mollusc farming area to be infected;\n(b) establishing a containment area appropriate to the disease in question, including a protection zone and surveillance zone around the farm or mollusc farming area declared infected;\n(c) restricting the movement of aquaculture animals from the containment area to the effect that such animals may only be:\n(i) introduced into farms or mollusc farming areas in accordance with Article 12(2);\nor\n(ii) harvested and slaughtered for human consumption in accordance with Article 33(1);\n(d) the removal and disposal of dead fish and crustaceans, under the supervision of the competent authority in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, in an appropriate timeframe taking into account the type of production and the risk such dead animals pose for further spread of the disease.",
  "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/39",
    "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."
}