{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-V/chapter-5/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-V/chapter-5/division-1.json",
  "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/5/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "The seasonally BTV-free status may only be established in a Member State or zone thereof if:",
  "text": "(a) the beginning and the end of the vector-free period and therefore of the seasonally BTV-free period has been demonstrated based on entomological surveillance in accordance with Section 5 of Chapter 1; and\n(b) the cessation of the transmission of BTV has been demonstrated by:\n(i) the implementation of surveillance in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 1 at least for the past 12 months including one full vector activity season; and\n(ii) the absence of new cases of infection with any of the serotypes 1-24 of BTV since the end of the vector activity season.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/annex/V/chapter/5/division/1",
    "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."
}