# 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 59: Epidemiological enquiry and investigations in case of confirmation of certain diseases

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

1. When the disease is confirmed, the competent authority shall:
(a) conduct an epidemiological enquiry;
(b) conduct investigations and apply the measures laid down in Article 55(2) in all epidemiologically linked establishments;
(c) adapt the surveillance to the identified risk factors, taking into account the conclusions of the epidemiological enquiry.
2. The competent authority shall consider the need to conduct an investigation on wild animals where the epidemiological enquiry reveals epidemiological links between kept and wild animals.
3. The competent authority shall as soon as possible inform:
(a) operators and relevant authorities from the Member State concerned by the epidemiological links with the confirmed case; and
(b) the competent authorities from other Member States or third countries that may be concerned by the epidemiological links with the infected establishment(s).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-59
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