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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-10",
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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",
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  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Criteria for and contents of Union surveillance programmes",
  "text": "1. A category E disease shall be subject to a Union surveillance programme in accordance with Article 28 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 if it meets all of the following criteria:\n(a) it poses a particular threat to animal and possibly human health on the whole Union territory with possible serious economic consequences for the farming community and the wider economy;\n(b) it is susceptible to an evolution of the disease profile, in particular with regard to the risk for human health and animal health;\n(c) infected wild animals pose a particular threat for the introduction of the disease into a part or the whole of the Union territory;\n(d) it is fundamental to obtain, through surveillance, regularly updated information on the evolution of its circulation and on the characterisation of the disease agent, to assess those risks and adapt risk mitigating measures accordingly.\n2. The competent authority shall implement Union surveillance programmes for the relevant disease in accordance with the contents set out in Annex II.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/10",
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  "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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