{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1988-407/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Each Member State shall ensure that only semen meeting the following general conditions is sent from its territory to the territory of another Member State;\n(a) it must have been collected and processed and/or stored if need be in a collection or storage centre or centres approved for the purpose in accordance with Article 5(1), with a view to artificial insemination and for the purposes of intra-Community trade;\n(b) it must have been collected from domestic animals of the bovine species whose health status complies with Annex B;\n(c) it must have been collected, processed, stored and transported in accordance with Annexes A and C;\n(d) it must be accompanied, during transport to the country of destination, by an animal health certificate complying with Article 6 (1).",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}