# 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 57: Derogation from disease control measures in the event of suspicion of disease

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

1. By way of derogation from point (c) of Article 55(2) the competent authority may authorise the movement of aquaculture animals to an establishment under its official supervision provided that the following requirements are complied with:
(a) only animals showing no symptoms of disease are moved;
(b) the health status of aquaculture animals at the establishment of destination or aquatic animals enroute to that establishment is not jeopardised by the movement;
(c) in the establishment of destination they have no contact with aquaculture animals of a higher health status with respect to the relevant disease; and
(d) the animals are kept in the establishment of destination for a maximum period of time to be determined by the competent authority.
2. When making use of the derogation laid down in paragraph 1, the competent authority shall:
(a) re-classify the health status of the establishment of destination, if relevant, in accordance with the criteria laid down in Article 52(1), until the end of the investigation referred to in Article 55(1);
(b) prohibit the movement of animals from the establishment of destination until the end of the investigation, unless it has authorised their transport to a disease control aquatic food establishment for immediate slaughter or processing or for direct human consumption, in the case of molluscs or crustacea which are sold live for that purpose.
3. The competent authority may use the derogation provided for in paragraph 1 only if operators of establishments of origin and of destination and transporters of the animals that are subject to the derogation:
(a) apply appropriate biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures necessary to prevent the spread of the disease;
(b) provide the competent authority with guarantees that all the necessary biosecurity and other risk mitigating measures have been taken; and
(c) provide the competent authority with guarantees that animal by-products as defined in point (1) of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 from the aquatic animals referred to in paragraph 1(c) of this Article are processed or disposed of as Category 1 or Category 2 material in accordance with Articles 12 or 13 of that Regulation.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/57 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-57
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