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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-V/chapter-3",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/689",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689",
  "path": "annex/V/chapter/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Vector protected establishment",
  "text": "The status of vector protected establishment may only be granted to an establishment if:\n(a) it has appropriate physical barriers at entry and exit points;\n(b) openings must be vector screened with mesh of appropriate gauge which must be impregnated regularly with an approved insecticide according to the manufacturers’ instructions;\n(c) vector surveillance and control must be carried out within and around the vector protected establishment;\n(d) measures must be taken to limit or eliminate breeding sites for vectors in the vicinity of the vector protected establishment; and\n(e) standard operating procedures must be in place, including descriptions of back-up and alarm systems, for operation of the vector protected establishment and transport of animals to the place of loading.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/annex/V/chapter/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:38.010272+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."
}