# 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), Article 16: Disease control strategy based on the disease-free status at establishment level

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

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:
(a) infection with Brucella abortus, B. melitensis and B. suis;
(b) infection with MTBC;
(c) EBL;
(d) IBR/IPV;
(e) infection with ADV;
(f) BVD.
2. Disease control strategies of eradication programmes referred to in paragraph 1 shall be based on:
(a) the implementation of disease specific measures laid down in Articles 18 to 31 until all relevant establishments reach disease-free status;
(b) the granting, suspension and withdrawal by the competent authority of the disease-free status of all relevant establishments;
(c) the implementation of biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures;
(d) the optional implementation of vaccination programmes.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-16
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