# 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 34: Obligations of the competent authority in the context of eradication programmes for infection with RABV

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

1. The competent authority shall:
(a) conduct surveillance of infection with RABV for the purposes of:
(i) early detection of the infection; and
(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;
(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;
(c) apply, if necessary, risk mitigating measures to prevent the spread of RABV by movements of dogs, cats and ferrets.
2. The competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, order:
(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);
(b) the identification and registration of dogs, cats and ferrets;
(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;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/34 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-34
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