{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-25/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-25/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2007/25",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 22 December 2006 as regards certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza and movements of pet birds accompanying their owners into the Community (notified under document number C(2006) 6958) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/25/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-25",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Veterinary checks",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority shall take the measures necessary to ensure that pet birds moved into Great Britain from a third country are subject to documentary and identity checks by the competent authority at the traveller’s point of entry ....\n2. The appropriate authority shall designate the authority referred to in paragraph 1 which is responsible for such checks ....\n3. The appropriate authority shall draw up a list of points of entry as referred to in paragraph 1 and forward it to the other appropriate authorities.\n4. Where such checks reveal that the animals do not meet the requirements laid down in this Decision, Article 35 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 ... shall apply.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) 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), 47(3)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) 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), 47(3)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 2(1) 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), 47(3)(a)(iii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 47(3)(a)(iv) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(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), 47(3)(b)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 2(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), 47(3)(b)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 47(3)(b)(iii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(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), 47(3)(c)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(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), 47(3)(c)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/2410 of 20 December 2017 amending Decisions 2006/415/EC and 2007/25/EC and Implementing Decision 2013/657/EU concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza (notified under document C(2017) 8969) (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 47(3)(d) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/25/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:17:17.697151+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."
}