{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1982-894/article-2",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1982/894",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 21 December 1982 on the notification of animal diseases within the Community (82/894/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1982-894",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive:\n(a) ‘holding’ means any establishment (agricultural or other) situated in the territory of a Member State, in which animals are reared or kept;\n(b) ‘case’ means the official confirmation of any of the dieseases listed in Annex I in any animal or carcase;\n(c) ‘outbreak’ means the holding or place situated in the territory of the Community where animals are assembled and where one or more cases has or have been officially confirmed;\n(d) ‘primary outbreak’ means an outbrake not epizootiologically linked with a previous outbreak in the same region of a Member State as defined in Article 2 of Directive 64/432/EEC or the first outbreak in a different region of the same Member State.",
  "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/eudr/1982/894/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:37.650842+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."
}