# 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 82: Suspension, withdrawal and restoration of disease-free status

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

1. If the disease has been confirmed and therefore the conditions for maintaining the disease-free status of a Member State, a zone or compartment thereof are not fulfilled, the competent authority shall:
(a) apply without delay the relevant disease control measures;
(b) conduct specific surveillance to assess the extent of the outbreak;
(c) order any necessary risk mitigating measures.
2. If the disease has not been confirmed, but there has been a breach of one of the conditions for maintaining the disease-free status of a Member State, a zone or compartment thereof, the competent authority shall take the appropriate corrective measures and assess the risk that the health situation has changed.
3. The competent authority may where necessary, as a transitional measure, suspend the disease-free status of the Member State, a zone or compartment thereof rather than the Commission withdrawing the disease-free status. During that suspension, the competent authority shall:
(a) adopt all necessary prevention, surveillance and control measures to manage the situation;
(b) inform without delay the Commission and the other Member States about the measures adopted; and
(c) inform regularly the Commission and the other Member States about the evolution of the situation, of its position as regards the restoration of the disease-free status, the prolongation of its suspension or its withdrawal by the Commission.
4. Subject to compliance with the provisions of paragraph 3 the competent authority may restore the disease-free status of the Member State, zone or compartment thereof by lifting the suspension.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/689/article/82 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-689/article-82
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.