{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-556/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1989-556/article-3.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/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Each Member State shall ensure that embryos shall not be sent from its territory to that of another Member State unless they meet the following conditions:\n(a) they must have been conceived as a result of artificial insemination or in vitro fertilization with semen from a donor sire standing at a semen collection centre approved by the competent authority for the collection, processing and storage of semen or by semen imported in accordance with Directive 88/407/EEC .\nIn accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 18, the Commission may authorize trade in embryos of certain specific species conceived as a result of natural service by bulls whose health status complies with Annex B to that Directive;\n(b) they must have been collected from domestic animals of the bovine species whose health status complies with Annex B of this Directive;\n(c) they must have been collected, processed and stored by an embryo collection team approved in accordance with Article 5 (1);\n(d) they must have been collected, processed and stored by the embryo collection team in accordance with Annex A of this Directive;\n(e) they must be accompanied, during transport to the Member State 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 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": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 194, 22.7.1988, p. 10 . Directive as last amended by Directive 90/425/EEC ( OJ No L 224, 18.8.1990, p. 29 )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
}