# 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 8: Criteria for official confirmation of listed diseases, other than category A diseases, and certain emerging diseases and subsequent confirmation of outbreaks

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

1. The competent authority shall, on suspicion of listed diseases, other than category A disease, or of an emerging disease, conduct an investigation to confirm or to rule out the presence of that disease when:
(a) there is a need to determine the health status of the Member State, zone or compartment thereof; or
(b) there is a need to collect necessary information on the occurrence of the disease for any of the following purposes:
(i) to implement measures to protect animal or human health;
(ii) to implement animal health requirements for movements of animals or products; or
(iii) to comply with the requirements laid down in a Union surveillance programme.
2. The competent authority shall confirm an outbreak of any of the diseases referred to in paragraph 1 when it has classified an animal or a group of animals as a confirmed case of these diseases in accordance with Article 9(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-8
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