{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-65/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-65/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1992/65",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A (I) to Directive 90/425/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1992-65",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that the animals, semen, ova and embryos covered by this Directive are imported into the Community only if they:\nare accompanied by a certificate to be drawn up by the official veterinarian.\nThe specimen certificate shall, depending on the species, be drawn up under the procedure laid down in Article 26,\nhave satisfied the checks required by Directives 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC,\nhave undergone, prior to shipment to Community territory, a check by an official veterinarian to ensure that the transport conditions specified in Directive 91/628/EEC have been complied with, in particular as regards watering and feeding,\nhave, in the case of the animals referred to in Articles 5 to 10, been quarantined before being placed on the market, in accordance with detailed rules to be established under the procedure laid down in Article 26.\n2. Pending the establishment of specific rules for this Article, the national rules applicable to imports from third countries for which such requirements have not been adopted at Community level shall continue to apply, provided they are not more favourable than those laid down in Chapter II.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the principles governing the organization of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries and amending Directive 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (OJ No L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Council Directive 91/628/EEC of 19 November 1991 on the protection of animals during transport and amending Directives 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC (OJ No L 340, 11.12.1991, p. 17)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1992/65/article/18",
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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."
}