{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-21.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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Disease control measures in the event of suspicion of certain diseases",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall, when it suspects a case of the relevant disease, conduct investigations, initiate an epidemiological enquiry and suspend the disease-free status of the establishment where the suspected case occurred until the investigations and the epidemiological enquiry are concluded.\n2. Pending the outcome of the investigations and the epidemiological enquiry referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authority:\n(a) shall prohibit movement of animals from the relevant targeted animal population out of the establishment unless it has authorised their immediate slaughter in a designated slaughterhouse;\n(b) shall, when it considers it necessary for the control of the risk of spreading the disease:\n(i) where technically possible, order the isolation of the suspected cases in the establishment;\n(ii) restrict the introduction of animals from the relevant targeted animal population into the establishment;\n(iii) restrict the movement of products from the relevant targeted animal population from or to the establishment.\n3. The competent authority shall maintain the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 until the presence of the disease has been ruled out or confirmed.",
  "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/21",
    "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."
}