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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-68",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-68.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/68",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "68",
  "heading": "Disease-free status based on the disease agent’s incapacity to survive",
  "text": "1. The criteria to recognise the disease-free status of a Member State or of a zone because of the disease agent’s incapacity to survive are as follows:\n(a) the general criteria laid down in points (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of Article 66 have been fulfilled for an eligibility period of at least 5 years and the disease was not detected;\n(b) the disease has never been reported or, if reported, it has been demonstrated that the disease agent did not survive;\n(c) the value of at least one critical environmental parameter that is not compatible with the survival of the disease agent is reached;\n(d) the disease agent is exposed to that critical environmental parameter for a period of time that is sufficient to destroy it.\n2. The Member State shall provide the following evidence to substantiate the fulfilment of the criteria in paragraph 1:\n(a) with respect to the fulfilment of the criteria set out in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, documentary evidence;\n(b) with respect to the fulfilment of the criteria set out in points (c) and (d) of paragraph 1, scientific evidence.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/68",
    "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."
}