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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-37.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/37",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Disease control strategy of eradication programmes for infection with BTV",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall, when establishing an optional eradication programme for infection with BTV, base the programme on a disease control strategy that includes:\n(a) surveillance of infection with BTV in accordance with the requirements set out in Chapter 1 of Part II of Annex V;\n(b) vaccination of the relevant targeted animal population for eradicating the disease by means of regular vaccination campaigns to be implemented, as relevant, in accordance with a long-term strategy;\n(c) movement restrictions of the targeted animal population in accordance with the requirements laid down in Articles 43 and 45;\n(d) risk mitigating measures to minimise transmission of infection with BTV through vectors.\n2. The competent authority shall implement the eradication programme taking into account that:\n(a) it shall detect and eradicate all the serotypes 1-24 present in the territory covered by the eradication programme;\n(b) the territory covered by the eradication programme shall be:\n(i) the whole territory of the Member State; or\n(ii) a zone or zones that include a territory within at least a 150-km radius of each infected establishment.\n3. By way of derogation from point (b)(ii) of paragraph 2, the competent authority may adapt the zone(s) covered by the eradication programme in accordance with:\n(a) the geographical situation of the infected establishment(s) and the boundaries of the corresponding administrative units;\n(b) the ecological and meteorological conditions;\n(c) the abundance, activity and distribution of the vectors present in the zone(s);\n(d) the BTV serotype involved;\n(e) the results of the epidemiological enquiry provided for in Article 42;\n(f) the results of the surveillance activities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/37",
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  },
  "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."
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