{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-69",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-69.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/69",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "69",
  "heading": "Disease-free status of terrestrial animals based on the incapacity to survive of listed vectors for listed diseases of terrestrial animals",
  "text": "1. The criteria to recognise the disease-free status of a Member State or of a zone because of the incapacity to survive of listed vectors for that listed disease 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 has not been transmitted;\n(c) the transmission of the disease agent is entirely dependent on the presence of listed vectors and no other mode of natural transmission is known to occur;\n(d) the listed vectors are not naturally present in the Member State or zones thereof;\n(e) the accidental or intentional introduction of listed vectors is unlikely to have occurred in the past or to occur in the future;\n(f) the value of at least one critical environmental parameter that is not compatible with the survival of the listed vectors is reached;\n(g) the listed vectors are 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) to (g) of paragraph 1, scientific evidence.\nIf the disease has occurred, the Member State shall provide documentary evidence that surveillance has demonstrated with a 95 % level of confidence that the prevalence rate of the disease was lower than 1 %.",
  "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/69",
    "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."
}