{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/annex-C/division-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/annex-C/division-1.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1988/407",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 14 June 1988 laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of deep-frozen semen of domestic animals of the bovine species (88/407/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407",
  "path": "annex/C/division/1",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Semen must be obtained from animals which:",
  "text": "(a) show no clinical signs of disease on the day the semen is collected;\n(b) (i) have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease during the 12 months prior to collection, or\n(ii) have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease during the 12 months prior to collection, in which case 5 % (with a minimum of five straws) of each collection shall be submitted to a virus isolation test for foot-and-mouth disease with negative results;\n(c) have not been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease within 30 days immediately prior to collection;\n(d) have been kept at an approved semen collection centre for a continuous period of at least 30 days immediately prior to the collection of the semen in the case of collections of fresh semen;\n(e) are not allowed to serve naturally;\n(f) are kept in semen collection centres which have been free from foot-and-mouth disease for at least three months prior to collection of the semen and 30 days after collection or, in the case of fresh semen, until the date of dispatch, and which are situated in the centre of an area of 10 kilometres radius in which there has been no case of foot-and-mouth disease for at least 30 days;\n(g) have been kept in semen collection centres which, during the period commencing 30 days prior to collection and ending 30 days after collection of the semen or, in the case of fresh semen, until the date of dispatch, have been free from those bovine diseases which are compulsorily notifiable in accordance with Annex E(I) to Directive 64/432/EEC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Directive 2003/43/EC of 26 May 2003 amending Directive 88/407/EEC laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1988/407/annex/C/division/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:31.306598+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."
}