{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/annex-I/division-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/annex-I/division-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2007/1266",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 of 26 October 2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266",
  "path": "annex/I/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Bluetongue monitoring and surveillance programmes aimed at determining the seasonally vector free period (entomological surveillance)",
  "text": "Entomological surveillance to determine the seasonally vector-free period as referred to in Annex V, shall meet the following requirements:\n(a) it must consist of at least an active annual programme of vector catching by means of permanently sited aspiration traps intended to determine the population dynamics of the vector;\n(b) aspiration traps equipped with ultraviolet light must be used in accordance with pre-established protocols; the traps must be operated throughout the night and operate at a rate of at least:\none night per week during the month before the expected beginning and during the month before the expected end of the seasonally vector-free period,\none night per month during the seasonally vector-free period.\nOn the basis of the evidence obtained in the three first years of the operation of the aspiration traps, the frequency of operation of those traps may be adjusted;\n(c) at least one aspiration trap must be placed in each epidemiologically relevant area all over the bluetongue seasonally free zone. A proportion of the midges collected in the aspiration traps must be sent to a specialised laboratory capable of counting and identifying the suspected vector species.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 456/2012 of 30 May 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/1266/annex/I/division/4",
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  },
  "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."
}