# 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 75: Disease-free status based on the disease agent’s incapacity to survive

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

1. The criteria to recognise the disease-free status of a compartment keeping aquaculture animals because of the disease agent’s incapacity to survive are as follows:
(a) the general criteria laid down in points (a)(i) and (a)(ii) of Article 73(1) have been fulfilled for an eligibility period of at least 5 years and the disease was not detected;
(b) the disease has never been reported or if reported, it has been demonstrated that the disease agent did not survive;
(c) the value of at least one critical environmental parameter that is not compatible with the survival of the disease agent is reached;
(d) the disease agent is exposed to that critical parameter during a sufficient period of time to destroy it.
2. The Member State shall provide the following evidence to substantiate the fulfilment of the criteria in paragraph 1:
(a) with respect to the fulfilment of the criteria set out in points (a) and (b) of paragraph 1, documentary evidence;
(b) with respect to the fulfilment of the criteria set out in points (c) and (d) of paragraph 1, scientific evidence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/75 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-75
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