# 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), Article 5: Requirement for approved aquaculture establishments and groups thereof to have a biosecurity plan

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

The competent authority shall only approve aquaculture establishments referred to in Article 7 and Articles 9 to 19, or groups of aquaculture establishments referred to in Article 8, if their operators have developed and documented a biosecurity plan, which complies with the following requirements:
(a) it identifies the routes whereby a disease agent can enter the aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments, spread within it and transfer from it to the environment or to other aquaculture establishments;
(b) it takes account of the specificities of the individual aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments and identifies risk-mitigation measures for each biosecurity risk which has been identified;
(c) it considers or takes into account, where appropriate, the elements set out in point 1(a) of Parts 1 to 7 and Parts 9 to 12, and in point 1(b) of Part 8 of Annex I, when this plan for the aquaculture establishment or group of aquaculture establishments is being developed.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/691/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-691/article-5
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