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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-88/article-49",
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  "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/49",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": "Disease-free Member State",
  "text": "1. A Member State shall be declared free of one or more of the non-exotic diseases listed in Part II of Annex IV in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 62(2), if paragraph 2 of this Article is complied with and:\n(a) none of the species susceptible to the disease(s) in question is present in its territory;\nor\n(b) the pathogen is known not to be able to survive in the Member State, and in its water source;\nor\n(c) the Member State meets the conditions laid down in Part I of Annex V.\n2. Where neighbouring Member States, or water catchment areas shared with neighbouring Member States, are not declared disease-free, the Member State shall establish appropriate buffer zones in its territory. The demarcation of buffer zones shall be such that they protect the disease-free Member State from passive introduction of the disease.\n3. The specific requirements for surveillance, buffer zones, sampling and diagnostic methods that shall be used by Member States to declare disease-free status in accordance with this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 62(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to 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 (Official Journal of the European Union L 328 of 24 November 2006)."
    }
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2006/88/article/49",
    "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."
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