{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-552/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2007/552",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (notified under document number C(2007) 3852) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/552/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-552",
  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Without prejudice to the measures taken by the United Kingdom within the framework of Council Directive 2003/85/EC, and notably the implementation of a temporary control zone in accordance with Article 7(1) and a movement ban as provided for in Article 7(3) of that Directive, the United Kingdom shall ensure that:\n1.. no live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates move between those parts of its territory listed in Annex I and Annex II;\n2.. no live animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates are dispatched from or moved through those parts of its territory listed in Annex I and Annex II;\n3.. without prejudice to the restrictions on movement of susceptible animals within and through Great Britain applied by the competent authorities of the United Kingdom, and derogating from the provisions in paragraph 2, the competent authorities may authorise the direct and uninterrupted transit of biungulate animals through the areas listed in Annex I and Annex II on main roads and railway lines.\n4.. the health certificates provided for in Council Directive 64/432/EEC accompanying live bovine and porcine animals and in Council Directive 91/68/EEC accompanying live ovine and caprine animals consigned from parts of the territory of the United Kingdom not listed in Annex I and Annex II to other Member States shall bear the following words:\n‘Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2007/552/EC of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protective measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom’.\n5.. the health certificates accompanying biungulates, other than those covered by the certificates mentioned in paragraph 4, consigned from parts of the territory of the United Kingdom not listed in Annex I and Annex II to other Member States shall bear the following words:\n‘Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2007/552/EC of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom’.\n6.. The movement to other Member States of animals accompanied by an animal health certificate referred to in paragraphs 4 or 5 shall only be allowed following three days advance notification dispatched by the local veterinary authority to the central and local veterinary authorities in the Member State of destination.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/552/article/1",
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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."
}