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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-V/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-V/section-2.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/section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Maintenance of the status of a Member State or zone free from infestation with varroa spp.",
  "text": "The status free from infestation with Varroa spp. granted to the relevant honeybee population of a Member State or of a zone may only be maintained if:\n(a) the competent authority maintains a surveillance that:\n(i) demonstrates the absence of infestations with Varroa spp. annually on a representative sample of kept honeybees of the free area;\n(ii) enables the early detection of infestation with Varroa spp. in apiaries and beehives;\n(iii) takes into consideration specifically target areas with higher likelihood of introduction of or infestation with Varroa spp., based on a risk assessment;\n(b) all the suspected cases have been investigated and no case of infestation with Varroa spp. has been confirmed, either in kept or in wild honeybee colonies;\n(c) either there is no wild self-sustaining population of the species of the genus Apis or there is an ongoing surveillance programme in the wild population which demonstrates no evidence of infestation with Varroa spp.; and\n(d) the honeybees in any stage of their lifecycle, including honeybee brood, are only moved into the free area when:\n(i) they come from a Member State or zone thereof or from a third country or territory with disease-free status regarding infestation with Varroa spp.; and\n(ii) they are protected from infestation with Varroa spp. during transport.",
  "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/section/2",
    "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."
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