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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-692/annex-XIX/division-4",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/692",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692 of 30 January 2020 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for entry into the Union, and the movement and handling after entry of consignments of certain animals, germinal products and products of animal origin (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-692",
  "path": "annex/XIX/division/4",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The animal health requirements in relation to personnel, as referred to in Article 56, are as follows:",
  "text": "(a) the person responsible for the establishment must have adequate ability and knowledge;\n(b) the operator responsible for the establishment must secure, by contract or other legal instrument, the services of a veterinarian approved by and under the control of the competent authority of the third country or territory, who:\n(i) ensures that appropriate disease surveillance and control measures in relation to the disease situation of the third country or territory concerned are approved by the competent authority and applied in the establishment; such measures must include the following:\nan annual disease surveillance programme including appropriate zoonoses control of the animals,\nclinical, laboratory and post-mortem testing of animals suspected to be affected by diseases,\nvaccination of susceptible animals against diseases as appropriate, in conformity with the Terrestrial Animal Health Code and the Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals of the OIE;\n(ii) ensures that any suspect deaths or the presence of any other symptoms indicative of highly pathogenic avian influenza, infection with Newcastle disease virus or avian chlamydiosis is notified without delay to the competent authority of the third country or territory;\n(iii) ensures that animals entering the establishment have been isolated as necessary and in accordance with the requirements of paragraph 1(b) and with the instructions, if any, given by the competent authority of the third country or territory.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/692/annex/XIX/division/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:36.901874+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}