# 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 1: The status free from infection with Bonamia ostreae may only be granted to a Member State, a zone or a compartment with an unknown health status with regard to infection with Bonamia ostreae if all establishments or groups of establishments keeping listed species within the Member State, zone or compartment and where required, sampling points in wild populations, have been subject to the following 3-year scheme:

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

(a) the establishments and groups of establishments keeping listed species have been subject to health visits and sampled for a minimum period of 3 consecutive years as laid down in Table 5.A;
(b) during that 3-year period, the testing of all samples using the diagnostic methods set out in point 2 of Section 5 have produced negative results for Bonamia ostreae and any suspicion of Bonamia ostreae has been ruled out in accordance with the diagnostic methods set out in point 3 of Section 5;
(c) when Ostrea edulis sourced from a Member State, zone or compartment of disease-free status are to be included in the sample, they must have been introduced into the establishment or group of establishments at least one year before the scheme is carried out.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/annex/VI/chapter/5/section/2/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/annex-VI/chapter-5/section-2/division-1
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