The competent authority shall ensure that increased passive surveillance of wild bird populations and further monitoring for dead or sick birds is carried out in accordance with the guidelines on the implementation of surveillance programmes for avian influenza in wild birds set out in Annex II to Decision 2010/367/EU specifically paying attention to the list of target species for sampling and laboratory testing set out in that Decision and other wild bird species having shown to become infected with HPAI viruses.

The competent authority may target sampling and laboratory testing of wild birds on species and geographical areas previously unaffected by HPAI.