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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-12.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": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Disease control strategy for the eradication of category B and C diseases of terrestrial animals",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall, when establishing a compulsory eradication programme for a category B disease or an optional eradication programme for a category C disease of terrestrial animals, base those programmes on a disease control strategy that includes for each disease:\n(a) the territory and animal population covered by the eradication programme as provided for in Article 13(1);\n(b) the duration of the eradication programme as provided for in Article 15, including its final and intermediate targets as provided for in Article 14; and\n(c) the disease specific requirements laid down:\n(i) in Articles 16 to 31 for infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis, infection with MTBC, EBL, IBR/IPV, infection with ADV and BVD;\n(ii) in Articles 32 to 36 for infection with rabies virus (RABV);\n(iii) in Articles 37 to 45 for infection with BTV.\n2. The competent authority may include in the eradication programme coordinated measures at its common land or coastal border with other Member States or third countries to ensure that the objectives of the programme are achieved and that the results will last.\nWhere such coordination has not been established, the competent authority shall include in the eradication programme, if feasible, effective risk mitigating measures, including intensified surveillance.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/12",
    "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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