{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-68/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-68/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1991/68",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 28 January 1991 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals (91/68/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1991-68",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Without prejudice to the additional guarantees that may be required in accordance with Articles 7 and 8, animals for breeding must furthermore meet the following requirements:\n(a) They must have been obtained from a holding and must only have been in contact with animals from such a holding:\n(i) in which the following diseases have not been clinically diagnosed:\nin the previous six months, contagious agalactia of sheep (Mycoplasma agalactiae) or contagious agalactia of goats (Mycoplasma agalactiae, M. capricolum, M. Mycoïdes var. mycoïdes‘large colony’),\nin the previous 12 months, paratuberculosis or caseous lymphadenitis,\nin the previous three years, pulmonary adenomatosis, Maedi Visna or caprine viral arthritis/encephalitis. However, this period shall be reduced to 12 months if the animals infected with Maedi Visna or caprine viral arthritis/encephalitis have been slaughtered and the remaining animals have reacted negatively to two tests recognized under the procedure set out in Article 15,\nor which, without prejudice to compliance with the requirements for other diseases, provides, for one or more of the abovementioned diseases, within the framework of a programme approved in accordance with Articles 7 and 8, health guarantees which are equivalent for the said disease or diseases;\n(ii) where no facts suggesting that the requirements of point (i) have not been met, have been brought to the attention of the official veterinarian responsible for issuing the health certificate;\n(iii) whose owner states that he has no knowledge of any such facts and, moreover, states in writing that the animal or animals intended for intra-Community trade comply with the criteria laid down in point (i);\n(b) . . . . .\n(c) whith regard to contagious epidydimitis (B. ovis), non castrated rams, for breeding, must:\ncome from a holding where no case of contagious epidydimitis (B. ovis) has been diagnosed in the preceding 12 months,\nhave been continuously kept on that holding for 60 days prior to dispatch,\nin the 30 days prior to dispatch have undergone, with negative results, a serological test carried out in accordance with Annex D or satisfy equivalent health guarantees to be recognized under the procedure laid down in Article 15;\n(d) the certificate corresponding to Model III of Annex E states that these requirements have been met.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Deleted by Directive 2001/10/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 amending Council Directive 91/68/EEC as regards scrapie."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1991/68/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:26.306210+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."
}