# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/691 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of Council as regards rules for aquaculture establishments and transporters of aquatic animals (Text with EEA relevance), Division 1: The requirements in relation to biosecurity measures of groups of aquaculture establishments where aquaculture animals are kept with a view to being moved therefrom as referred to in point (b) of Article 8, shall be the following:

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

(a) operators shall implement a biosecurity plan in accordance with Article 5, and in developing their biosecurity plan, the operators must take the following elements into consideration:
(i) disinfection points must be installed at critical locations in each aquaculture establishment in the group;
(ii) where the following functional units exist within the same aquaculture establishment, they must be separated using appropriate hygiene barriers:
hatchery units,
fattening units,
processing units,
dispatch centre;
(iii) work clothing and footwear for personnel must be kept solely for use at each aquaculture establishment and cleaned and disinfected regularly;
(iv) equipment must not be shared between aquaculture establishments but where this is unavoidable, an appropriate protocol for cleaning and disinfection of the equipment must be followed;
(v) visitors to the aquaculture establishment must be controlled where they pose a disease risk; these visitors must either:
wear protective clothing and footwear provided at each aquaculture establishment, or
clean and disinfect any protective clothing and footwear they bring onto the aquaculture establishment on arrival and in the case of non-disposable clothing and footwear, on departure;
(vi) dead aquaculture animals must be removed from all production units at a frequency that ensures infective pressure is kept to a minimum but which is practicable given the production method used, and disposed of in compliance with Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009;
(vii) as far as possible, equipment in each aquaculture establishment must be cleaned and disinfected at the end of each production cycle;
(viii) where aquaculture establishments receive fertilised eggs from other establishments, and where biologically feasible, these eggs must be disinfected appropriately on arrival and all packaging must be disinfected or disposed of in a biosecure manner;
(ix) the cleaning and disinfection records of transporters must be verified before aquaculture animals are loaded or unloaded at the aquaculture establishment;
(b) responsibility for the implementation of the measures set out in the biosecurity plan shall be with:
(i) the operator of each individual aquaculture establishment in a group of aquaculture establishments approved in accordance with point (a) of Article 177 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429;
(ii) the operator of a group of aquaculture establishments approved in accordance with point (b) of Article 177 of Regulation (EU) 2016/429.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/691/annex/I/part/2/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-691/annex-I/part-2/division-1
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