Article 46 Disease control strategy for the eradication of category B and C diseases of aquatic animals
United Kingdom
The competent authority shall, when establishing a compulsory eradication programme for a category B disease or an optional eradication programme for a category C disease of aquatic animals, base those programmes on a disease control strategy that includes for each disease:
the type of surveillance requirements necessary to achieve the conditions for granting and maintaining disease-free status taking into account point (b)(ii) of Article 3(2);
the territory and animal population covered by the eradication programme as provided for in Articles 47 and 51;
the duration of the eradication programme provided for in Article 49 including its final and intermediate targets as provided for in Article 48;
the disease specific preventive and control measures laid down in Articles 55 to 65.
The competent authority may include in the eradication programme coordinated measures at its common land or coastal border with other Member States or third countries to ensure that the objective of the programmes are achieved and will last.
Where such coordination has not been established, the competent authority shall include in the eradication programme, if feasible, effective risk mitigating measures including intensified surveillance.