{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-16.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/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Disease control strategy based on the disease-free status at establishment level",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall design the disease control strategy of an eradication programme with respect to the targeted animal population kept in establishments for the following diseases of terrestrial animals:\n(a) infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis;\n(b) infection with MTBC;\n(c) EBL;\n(d) IBR/IPV;\n(e) infection with ADV;\n(f) BVD.\n2. Disease control strategies of eradication programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be based on:\n(a) the implementation of disease specific measures laid down in Articles 18 to 31 until all relevant establishments reach disease-free status;\n(b) the granting, suspension and withdrawal by the competent authority of the disease-free status of all relevant establishments;\n(c) the implementation of biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures;\n(d) the optional implementation of vaccination programmes.",
  "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/article/16",
    "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."
}