# 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 22: Extension of disease control measures in the event of suspicion of certain diseases

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

1. The competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, extend the measures laid down in Article 21 to:
(a) relevant additional animal populations kept in the establishment;
(b) any establishment which has an epidemiological link with the establishment where the suspected case occurred.
2. If the presence of the disease is suspected in wild animals, the competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, extend to the establishments that are at risk of infection the measures laid down in Article 21.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-22
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