{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-572/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-572/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2000/572",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (notified under document number C(2000) 2533) (Text with EEA relevance) (2000/572/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2000-572",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n2. Each consignment of meat preparations shall be accompanied by an original, numbered health certificate, completed, signed and dated, composed of a single sheet in accordance with a certificate in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time.\n3. The certificates shall be drawn up in English and may also appear in other languages.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Deleted by Commission Decision of 6 January 2004 on Community health conditions on imports of animals and fresh meat including minced meat from third countries and amending Decisions 79/542/EEC, 2000/572/EC and 2000/585/EC (notified under document number C(2003) 5248) (Text with EEA relevance) (2004/212/EC)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 40(3)(a) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 40(3)(b) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2000/572/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:18:47.693383+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}