# 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 5: Exclusion of certain kept terrestrial animals from the targeted animal population

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

1. By way of derogation from point (a) of Article 4(1), the competent authority may limit the targeted animal population for the surveillance of a disease other than a category A disease to the categories of kept animals of listed species that are subject, for that disease, to:
(a) Union surveillance programmes;
(b) compulsory or optional eradication programmes or surveillance necessary for the granting or maintenance of a disease-free status; or
(c) surveillance-based animal health requirements for the movements within the Union or the entry into the Union.
2. The categories of kept animals referred to in paragraph 1 may be based on the animals’ age, their sex, the location and type of production.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-5
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