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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-247/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-247/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2017/247",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247 of 9 February 2017 on protective measures in relation to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in certain Member States (notified under document C(2017) 1044) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2017-247",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "This Decision establishes at Union level the protection and surveillance zones to be established by the Member States listed in the Annex to this Decision, following an outbreak or outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in poultry or captive birds in accordance with Article 16(1) of Directive 2005/94/EC and the duration of the measures to be applied in accordance with Article 29(1) and Article 31 of Directive 2005/94/EC (‘the concerned Member States’).\nThis Decision also establishes at Union level the further restricted zones to be established in the concerned Member States, as referred to in Article 16(4) of Directive 2005/94/EC, following an outbreak or outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza, and the duration of the measures to be applied in those further restricted zones.\nThis Decision lays down rules concerning the dispatch of consignments of live poultry, day-old chicks and hatching eggs from the concerned Member States.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/1841 of 10 October 2017 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/247 on protective measures in relation to outbreaks of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in certain Member States (notified under document C(2017) 6886) (Text with EEA relevance)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2017/247/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:13:36.544852+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."
}