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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-58/annex/division-8/division-18",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1998/58",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-58",
  "path": "annex/division/8/division/18",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "No other substance, with the exception of those given for therapeutic, or prophylactic purposes or for the purposes of zootechnical treatment as defined in Article 1(2)(c) of Directive 96/22/EEC, must be administered to an animal unless it has been demonstrated by scientific studies of animal welfare or established experience that the effect of that substance is not detrimental to the health or welfare of the animal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Council Directive 96/22/EC of 29 April 1996 concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and of beta-agonists (OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 3)."
    }
  ],
  "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."
}