# 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 33: Targeted animal population for eradication programmes for infection with RABV

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

1. The competent authority shall apply the eradication programme for infection with RABV to the following targeted animal population: kept and wild animals of species of the following families: Carnivora, Bovidae, Suidae, Equidae, Cervidae and Camelidae.
2. The competent authority shall address the measures in the eradication programme primarily to wild foxes, being the main reservoir of RABV.
3. The competent authority shall subject other targeted animal populations than wild foxes to the measures of the eradication programme when it considers that such animals pose a significant risk.
4. The competent authority may include wild animals of species of the order Chiroptera in the targeted animal population relevant to surveillance referred to in Article 4.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/33 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-33
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