ABSTRACT: This report presents the results of surveillance on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) in cattle, sheep, goats, cervids and other species, and genotyping in sheep, carried out in 2020 by 27 Member States (MS, EU27), the United Kingdom (UK) and other seven non-EU countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia and Switzerland. In total, 1,122,671 cattle were tested by EU27 and the UK (-2.4%, compared with 2019), and 51,775 cattle by the other seven non-EU, with three cases of H-BSE in France, Ireland and Spain, and two L-BSE in France and Switzerland. In total, 332,579 sheep and 120,615 goats were tested in the EU27 and the UK (-1.6% and -16%, respectively). In sheep, 688 cases of scrapie were reported by 16 MS and the UK: 589 classical s
