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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-34.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/34",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Obligations of the competent authority in the context of eradication programmes for infection with RABV",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall:\n(a) conduct surveillance of infection with RABV for the purposes of:\n(i) early detection of the infection; and\n(ii) follow up of the trend in the number of infected animals, which shall include, according to a risk-based approach, the collection and testing of wild foxes and other wild carnivores found dead;\n(b) carry out disease control measures in the event of suspicion or confirmation of infection with RABV as laid down in Articles 35 and 36;\n(c) apply, if necessary, risk mitigating measures to prevent the spread of RABV by movements of dogs, cats and ferrets.\n2. The competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, order:\n(a) vaccination, and the monitoring of the effectiveness of vaccination, in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Part I of Annex V of wild foxes and, if relevant, of other animals referred to in Article 33(3);\n(b) the identification and registration of dogs, cats and ferrets;\n(c) movement restrictions of relevant kept animals of species referred to in Article 33(3) that are not vaccinated against infection with RABV in accordance with Section 1 of Chapter 1 of Part I of Annex V;\n(d) the measures provided for in Article 35 when an animal of a listed species wounded a person or an animal without an understandable reason and in contradiction with its normal behaviour or presented an unexplained change in behaviour followed by death within 10 days.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/34",
    "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."
}