{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-137/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-137/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2012/137",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 1 March 2012 on imports into the Union of semen of domestic animals of the porcine species (notified under document C(2012) 1148) (Text with EEA relevance) (2012/137/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2012-137",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Imports of semen",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority shall authorise the import of semen provided that it complies with the following conditions:\n(a) it comes from such third country listed in Annex 1, or a part thereof, as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article;\n(b) it comes from a semen collection centre listed in accordance with Article 2a;\n(c) it is accompanied by an animal health certificate , in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time;\n(d) it complies with—\n(i) any requirements specified in a document published under point (a); and\n(ii) any requirements set out in the animal health certificate referred to in point (c)\n2. Where specific animal health and certification conditions are laid down in bilateral agreements between Great Britain and third countries, those conditions shall apply instead of the conditions laid down in paragraph 1.",
  "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), 62(3)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(a) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 14(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(b) 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), 62(3)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(1)(c) 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), 62(3)(a)(iii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 2(1)(d) substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 45"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "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), 62(3)(b) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2012/137/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:15:30.745344+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."
}