{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-838/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-838/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2008/838",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 3 November 2008 concerning preventive vaccination against low pathogenic avian influenza in mallard ducks in Portugal and certain measures restricting the movements of such poultry and their products (notified under document number C(2008) 6348) (Only the Portuguese text is authentic) (2008/838/EC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2008-838",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Marking and restrictions on the movement and dispatch and disposal of vaccinated mallard ducks",
  "text": "The competent authority shall ensure that vaccinated mallard ducks on the holding referred to in Article 2(1) are:\n(a) marked individually;\n(b) not moved to other poultry holdings within Portugal or dispatched to other Member States.\nAfter their reproductive period, such ducks shall be killed humanely on the holding referred to in Article 2(1) and their carcases safely disposed of.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2008/838/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:16:39.926733+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."
}