{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-82/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-82/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2001/82",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 November 2001 on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2001-82",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. This Directive shall not apply to:\n(a) medicated feedingstuffs as defined in Council Directive 90/167/EEC of 26 March 1990 laying down the conditions governing the preparation, placing on the market and use of medicated feedingstuffs in the Community ;\n(b) inactivated immunological veterinary medicinal products which are manufactured from pathogens and antigens obtained from an animal or animals from a holding and used for the treatment of that animal or the animals of that holding in the same locality;\n(c) veterinary medicinal products based on radio-active isotopes;\n(d) any additives covered by Council Directive 70/524/EEC of 23 November 1970 concerning additives in feedingstuffs where they are incorporated in animal feedingstuffs and supplementary animal feedingstuffs in accordance with that Directive; and\n(e) without prejudice to Article 95, medicinal products for veterinary use intended for research and development trials.\nHowever, medicated feedingstuffs referred to in subparagraph (a) may be prepared only from pre-mixes that have been authorised under this Directive.\n2. Except for the provisions on the possession, prescription, dispensing and administration of veterinary medicinal products, this Directive shall not apply to:\n(a) any medicinal product prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with a veterinary prescription for an individual animal or a small group of animals, commonly known as the magistral formula; and\n(b) any medicinal product prepared in a pharmacy in accordance with the prescriptions of a pharmacopoeia and intended to be supplied directly to the end-user, commonly known as the officinal formula.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Directive 2004/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/82/EC on the Community code relating to veterinary medicinal products."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 92, 7.4.1990, p. 42 ."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 270, 14.12.1970, p. 1 . Directive as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1756/2002 ( OJ L 265, 3.10.2002, p. 1 )."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2001/82/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:59.567754+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."
}