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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-50",
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  "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/50",
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  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Minimum requirements for an eradication programme",
  "text": "The competent authority shall base the eradication programme for a specific category B or C disease in a Member State, zone, or compartment on:\n(a) the determination of the health status of the Member State, zone or compartment by ascertaining the health status of all establishments where animals from the listed species are kept;\n(b) the implementation of disease control measures in all establishments where suspected and confirmed cases are detected;\n(c) the implementation of biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures to reduce the risk of the listed species in an establishment becoming infected;\n(d) in certain cases, vaccination, as part of the eradication programme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/50",
    "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."
}