Article 77 Disease-free status based on eradication programmes
United Kingdom
The criteria to recognise the disease-free status of a compartment keeping aquaculture animals based on eradication programmes are:
the competent authority has been running an approved eradication programme as referred to in Article 46; and
the competent authority has completed the eradication programme and submitted to the Commission the final report that demonstrates that the disease specific requirements laid down in Article 78 are complied with.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where a compartment covers less than 75 % of the territory of a Member State and the water catchment supplying the compartment is not shared with another Member State or third country, disease-free status may be achieved in accordance with Article 83.