{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-161/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-161/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/161",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 22 February 2008 concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza in Israel and derogating Decision 2006/696/EC (notified under document number C(2008) 679) (Text with EEA relevance) (2008/161/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-161",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Derogations from Article 3(b) of this Decision",
  "text": "By way of derogation from Article 3(b), Member States shall authorise the importation of the products referred to in Article 3(b)(i), (ii) and (iii), which have been obtained from birds slaughtered or hunted before 12 December 2007.\nIn the veterinary certificates/commercial documents accompanying consignments of those products, the following words as appropriate to the species shall be included:\n‘Fresh meat/minced meat/mechanically separated meat of poultry, ratites, farmed or wild feathered game or meat preparations/meat products consisting of, or containing meat of poultry, ratites, farmed or wild feathered game or raw pet food and unprocessed feed material containing any parts of poultry, ratites, farmed or wild feathered game obtained from birds slaughtered or hunted before 12 December 2007 and in accordance with Article 4 of Commission Decision 2008/161/EC.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Delete as appropriate."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/161/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:55.124103+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."
}