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Article 56 Extension of disease control measures in the event of suspicion of certain diseases

United Kingdom

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1.

The competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, extend the measures laid down in Article 55 to:

(a)

any establishment which due to hydrodynamic conditions, has an increased risk of contracting the disease from the suspected establishment;

(b)

any establishment which has a direct epidemiological link with the suspected establishment.

2.

If the presence of the disease is suspected in wild aquatic animals, the competent authority shall, when it considers it necessary, extend the measures laid down in Article 55 to the concerned establishments.