Article 26

Member States shall ensure that: when there are any reasons to suspect the presence of a disease listed in Part II of Annex IV, or the presence of such disease is confirmed in aquatic animals, the suspicion and/or the confirmation is immediately notified to the competent authority; and when increased mortality occurs in aquaculture animals, the mortality is immediately notified to the competent authority or a private veterinarian for further investigations. Member States shall ensure that the obligations to notify the matters referred to in paragraph 1 are imposed on: the owner and any person attending aquatic animals; any person accompanying aquaculture animals during transport; veterinary practitioners and other professionals involved in aquatic animal health services; official veterinarians, senior staff of veterinary or other official or private laboratories; and any other person with an occupational relationship to aquatic animals of susceptible species or to products of such animals.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.