# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for surveillance, eradication programmes, and disease-free status for certain listed and emerging diseases (Text with EEA relevance), Division 2: An animal or a group of animals must be considered, by the competent authority, as a confirmed case of infection with LPAIV when:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a) the disease agent responsible for infection with LPAIV, excluding vaccine strains, has been isolated in a sample from an animal or from a group of animals;
(b) nucleic acid specific to the disease agent for infection with LPAIV, that is not a consequence of vaccination, has been identified in a sample from an animal or from a group of animals; or
(c) positive result to an indirect diagnostic method, that is not a consequence of vaccination, has been obtained in a sample from a kept animal or from a group of kept animals showing clinical signs consistent with the disease or epidemiologically linked to a suspected or confirmed case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/annex/I/section/2/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-I/section-2/division-2
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