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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-55.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/55",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Disease control measures in the event of suspicion of certain diseases",
  "text": "1. The competent authority shall, when it suspects a case of the relevant disease in an establishment, conduct the necessary investigation.\n2. Pending the outcome of the investigation referred to in paragraph 1, the competent authority shall:\n(a) prohibit the introduction of animals or products of animal origin into the establishment;\n(b) where technically possible, order the isolation of units in the establishment where suspected animals are kept;\n(c) prohibit the movement of animals and products of animal origin out of the establishment unless authorised by the competent authority for the purpose of immediate slaughter or processing in a disease control aquatic food establishment, or for direct human consumption in the case of molluscs or crustacea which are sold live for that purpose;\n(d) prohibit the movement of equipment, feed and animal by-products from the establishment unless authorised by the competent authority.\n3. The competent authority shall maintain the measures referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 until the presence of the disease has been ruled out or confirmed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/55",
    "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."
}