: The notified Regulation supplements rules that are already laid down in the EU Animal Health Law (Regulation (EU) 2016/429) concerning surveillance, eradication programmes, and disease-free status in the European Union for certain listed and emerging diseases. In that regard it lays down:
(a) the rules and conditions for surveillance conducted by the competent authority to ensure the detection of listed diseases and, where relevant, of emerging diseases in the EU;
(b) the criteria used to determine which disease will require a Union surveillance programme and rules setting up the requirements for these Union surveillance programmes, to be implemented by competent authorities of the EU Member States;
(c) the rules setting out how competent authorities are to implement compulsory and optional eradication programmes in the EU for specific listed diseases focusing on their disease control strategies, their intermediate and final targets and their period of application;
(d) measures to be implemented by the competent authority and the operators in the EU under the compulsory and optional eradication programmes;
(e) the detailed rules for granting disease-free status to EU Member States, and zones and in case of aquatic animals, compartments;
(f) the detailed rules for surveillance and biosecurity measures to be implemented by competent authorities and operators in the EU for maintaining disease-free status of EU Member States, zones and compartments;
(g) supplementary rules for the suspension, withdrawal and restoration of disease-free status in the EU;
(h) rules necessary to ensure a smooth transition from the rules existing prior to the Animal Health Law.
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