{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1992/119",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/119/EEC of 17 December 1992 introducing general Community measures for the control of certain animal diseases and specific measures relating to swine vesicular disease",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-119",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "By way of derogation from the conditions provided for in Articles 19 and 20 as regards the contingency measures to be adopted by the Member States and so as to take account of the natural, geographical constraints particular to the French Overseas Departments, the Azores and Madeira and their remoteness from the central part of the Community's territory, the Member State concerned shall be authorized to apply particular control measures specific to each of the diseases listed in Annex I to this Directive.\nThe Member State concerned shall, within the Standing Veterinary Committee, inform the Commission and the other Member States of the measures it has taken in this respect and in particular of the control measures implemented to ensure that animals from the territories in question or products from such animals are not dispatched to the other territories of the Community.\nFollowing the information procedure referred to in the second paragraph, Article 20 shall apply mutatis mutandis.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/119/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:20.111119+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."
}