# 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 50: Minimum requirements for an eradication programme

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

The competent authority shall base the eradication programme for a specific category B or C disease in a Member State, zone, or compartment on:
(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;
(b) the implementation of disease control measures in all establishments where suspected and confirmed cases are detected;
(c) the implementation of biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures to reduce the risk of the listed species in an establishment becoming infected;
(d) in certain cases, vaccination, as part of the eradication programme.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/50 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-50
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