{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/article-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/article-11.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": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Member States shall authorize the importation of semen only on submission of an animal health certificate drawn up and signed by an official veterinarian of the third country of collection.\nThis certificate must:\n(a) be drawn up in at least one of the official languages of the Member State of destination and one of those of the Member State where the import control provided for in Article 12 is carried out;\n(b) accompany the semen in the original;\n(c) be drawn up on a single sheet of paper;\n(d) be made out to a single consignee.\n2. The certificate must correspond to a specimen drawn up in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2).",
  "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/article/11",
    "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."
}