{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-556/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-556/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1989/556",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 25 September 1989 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species (89/556/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-556",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the definitions contained in Article 2 of Directive 64/432/EEC and Article 2 of Directive 72/462/EEC shall apply as necessary.\nMoreover:\n(a) ‘embryo’ means the initial stage of development of a domestic animal of the bovine species while it is capable of being transferred to a recipient dam;\n(b) ‘embryo collection team’ means an officially approved group of technicians or structure supervised by a team veterinarian competent to perform the collection, processing and storage of embryos according to the conditions set out in Annex A;\n(c) ‘team veterinarian’ means the veterinarian responsible for the supervision of an embryo collection team in accordance with the conditions laid down in Annex A;\n(d) ‘consignment of embryos’ means a quantity of embryos removed in one operation from a single donor and covered by a single certificate;\n(e) ‘country of collection’ means the Member State or third country in which embryos are produced, collected, processed and, where necessary, stored, and from which they are sent to a Member State;\n(f) ‘approved diagnostic laboratory’ means a laboratory situated in the territory of a Member State or third country approved by the competent veterinary authority to carry out the diagnostic tests laid down in this Directive;\n(g) ‘embryo production team’ means an officially approved embryo collection team for in vitro fertilization in accordance with the conditions laid down in the relevant Annex.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Directive 93/52/EEC of 24 June 1993 amending Directive 89/556/EEC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Inserted by Council Directive 93/52/EEC of 24 June 1993 amending Directive 89/556/EEC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1989/556/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:28.889726+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."
}