{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-168/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-168/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2006/168",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 4 January 2006 establishing the animal health and veterinary certification requirements for imports into the Community of bovine embryos and repealing Decision 2005/217/EC (notified under document number C(2005) 5796) (Text with EEA relevance) (2006/168/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2006-168",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Imports of in vitro produced embryos",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority shall authorise imports of embryos which are produced by in vitro fertilisation using semen from a third country listed in Annex 1 of Commission Implementing Decision 2011/630/EU and in respect of which the model veterinary certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, has been completed to the satisfaction of the appropriate authority.\n2. The appropriate authority must authorise imports of embryos which are produced by in vitro fertilisation using semen produced in approved semen collection centres or stored in semen storage centres in third countries which comply with the animal health requirements set out in a model veterinary certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, on condition that such embryos are implanted exclusively into female bovine animals present in the country of destination indicated in that certificate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 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), 46(4) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2006/168/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:41.527986+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."
}