{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1723/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1723/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudn/2020/1723",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/1723 of 16 November 2020 on measures to prevent the introduction into the Union of the foot-and-mouth disease virus from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey (notified under document C(2020) 7661) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-1723",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Information to be provided by the operator or driver of a livestock vehicle or livestock vessel at the point of entry into the Union",
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that the operator or driver of a livestock vehicle or livestock vessel upon arrival in the Union from Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia or Turkey, either directly or after transiting through any other third country, provides the competent authority of the Member State at the point of entry into the Union with information showing that the livestock or loading compartment, where applicable the truck body, the loading ramp, the equipment which came into contact with the animals, the wheels and the driver’s cabin and any protective clothes and protective boots used during unloading have been cleansed and disinfected after the last unloading of the animals.\n2. The information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be included in a declaration completed in accordance with the model set out in Annex I or in any other equivalent format which includes at least the information set out in that model.\n3. The original of the declaration referred to in paragraph 2 shall be kept by the competent authority for a period of three years following its reception.",
  "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/2020/1723/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:12:05.276910+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."
}