Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs.

This Regulation supplements the rules for the prevention and control of animal diseases transmissible to animals or to humans laid down in article 5(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 as regards movements within the European Union of kept terrestrial animals, wild terrestrial animals and hatching eggs. The scope of this Regulation encompasses: (a) kept and wild terrestrial animals and hatching eggs; (b) establishments where those animals and hatching eggs are kept or undergo assembly operations; (c) operators keeping those animals and hatching eggs; (d) operators transporting terrestrial animals and hatching eggs; (e) competent authorities of Member States.