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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-regulations-1998/schedule-3/paragraph-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/190",
  "legislation_title": "The Animals and Animal Products (Import And Export) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animals-and-animal-products-import-and-export-regulations-1998",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Poultry and hatching eggs",
  "text": "Council Directive 90/539/EEC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of poultry and hatching eggs;\nOJ No. L303, 30.10.90, p. 6 as amended by, and as read with:\nCouncil Directive 91/494/EEC (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 35);\nCouncil Directive 91/496/EEC (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 56);\nCouncil Directive 92/65/EEC (OJ No. L268, 14.9.92, p. 54);\nCommission Decision 92/340/EEC (OJ No. L188, 8.7.92, p. 34);\nCommission Decision 92/369/EEC (OJ No. L195, 14.7.92, p. 25);\nCouncil Directive 93/120/EEC (OJ No. L340, 31.12.93, p. 35);\nThe Decision on the conclusion of the Agreement on the European Economic Area between the European Communities, their Member States and the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden and the Swiss Confederation (OJ No. L1, 3.1.94, p. 1);\nThe Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Kingdom of Norway, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded (OJ No. C241, 29.8.94, p. 21);\nCommission Decision 95/160/EC (OJ No. L105, 9.5.95, p. 40);\nCommission Decision 95/161/EC (OJ No. L05, 9.5.95, p. 44);\nCouncil Decision 95/410/EC (OJ No. L243, 11.10.95, p. 25);\nCommission Decision 97/278/EC (OJ No. L110, 26.4.97, p. 77).\nRelevant provisions: Articles 6 to 11, 12.1, 15 to 17.\n(a) The official health certification accompanying breeding poultry exported from Great Britain to Finland or Sweden must contain the statement that they have been tested for salmonella with negative results in accordance with Commission Decision 95/160/EC of 21 April 1995.\n(b) The official health certification accompanying day-old chicks exported from Great Britain to Finland or Sweden must contain the statement that they come from flocks which have been tested for salmonella with negative results in accordance with Commission Decision 95/160/EC of 21 April 1995.\n(c) The official health certification accompanying laying hens exported from Great Britain to Finland or Sweden must contain the statement that they have been tested for salmonella with negative results in accordance with Commission Decision 95/161/EC of 21 April 1995.\n(d) The official health certification accompanying poultry for slaughter exported from Great Britain to Finland or Sweden must contain the statement that they have undergone microbiological testing with negative results in accordance with Council Decision 95/410/EC of 22 June 1995.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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