Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1798 of 10 July 2023 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 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)
Amendments to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689
Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 is amended as follows:
(1)
in Article 4, the following paragraph 3 is added:
‘3. The competent authority shall include in the targeted animal population kept or wild animals of species that are not listed for the purpose of the relevant listed disease when the competent authority considers that they constitute a risk for animal and human health.’
;
(2)
in Article 70 paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 are deleted.
(3)
in Article 76, paragraphs 3 and 4 are deleted.
(4)
Annexes II and V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Supplementary provisions
ANNEXSupplementary provisions
ANNEX
Annexes II and V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 are amended as follows:
(1)
in Annex II, Part I is amended as follows:
(a)
the heading is replaced by the following:
‘PART I
AVIAN INFLUENZA SURVEILLANCE IN ANIMALS
’;
(b)
in Section 1, point 1 is replaced by the following:
‘1. TERRITORIAL SCOPE
Surveillance must be implemented in all Member States’;
(c)
the heading of Section 2 is replaced by the following:
‘
Section 2
Objectives for Surveillance
’;
(d)
the following Section 10 is added after Section 9:
‘
Section 10
Surveillance in species that are not listed for HPAI
HPAI surveillance must include surveillance activities in kept and wild animals of species not listed when the epidemiological situation indicates that those species may constitute a risk for animal and human health.’;
(2)
in Annex V, in Part IV, in Section 2, paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
‘2.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the status free from infection with NDV without vaccination granted to a Member State or to a zone may be maintained in the event of the confirmation of outbreaks of infection with NDV if:
(a)
the competent authority has only notified a limited number of primary outbreaks during a calendar year;
(b)
the competent authority has concluded that only a limited number of secondary outbreaks epidemiologically linked to each primary outbreak occurred; and
(c)
the disease control measures were applied for a duration not longer than three months for each primary outbreak and related secondary outbreaks.’.
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