{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-909/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-909/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2014/909",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision of 12 December 2014 concerning certain protective measures with regard to confirmed occurrences of the small hive beetle in Italy (notified under document C(2014) 9415) (Only the Italian text is authentic) (Text with EEA relevance) (2014/909/EU)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-909",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘beehive’ means:\n(i) a shelter built for honey bees;\n(ii) a container or colony of bumblebees (Bombus spp.);\n(b) ‘apiary’ means a group of beehives and the premises or facilities within a geographical location, in which this group of beehives are kept or have been kept;\n(c) ‘unprocessed apiculture by-products’ means honey, beeswax, royal jelly, propolis or pollen not intended for human consumption as defined in point 10 of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 which have not undergone any processing procedure as referred to in row 10 of column 4 of Table 2 set out in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to that Regulation;\n(d) ‘beekeeping equipment’ means used beehives, parts of beehives and utensils used in beekeeping activities.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 of 25 February 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and implementing Council Directive 97/78/EC as regards certain samples and items exempt from veterinary checks at the border under that Directive (OJ L 54, 26.2.2011, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2014/909/article/2",
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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."
}