# 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), Section 2: Maintenance of the status

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

The status free from infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis without vaccination of an establishment keeping bovine, ovine or caprine animals may only be maintained if:
(a) the requirements set out in points (a), (b), (d), (e) and (f) of point 1 of Section 1 continue to be fulfilled; and
(b) serological testing is carried out with negative results on samples taken from:
(i) all entire bovine animals over 12 months of age and all entire ovine or caprine animals over 6 months of age at appropriate intervals of not more than 12 months determined by the competent authority, taking into account the type of production, the situation of the disease and the identified risk factors; or
(ii) entire bovine animals over 12 months of age and entire ovine or caprine animals over 6 months of age kept in establishments located in a Member State or in a zone free from infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis, in accordance with a testing regime set up by the competent authority, taking into account the type of production and the identified risk factors.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/annex/IV/chapter/1/section/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-IV/chapter-1/section-2
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