{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-60/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-60/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2002/60",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2002/60/EC of 27 June 2002 laying down specific provisions for the control of African swine fever and amending Directive 92/119/EEC as regards Teschen disease and African swine fever (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2002-60",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "African swine fever notification",
  "text": "1. Member States shall ensure that the presence or the suspected presence of African swine fever is compulsorily and immediately notifiable to the competent authority.\n2. Without prejudice to existing Community provisions on notification of outbreaks of animal diseases, the Member State in whose territory African swine fever is confirmed shall:\n(a) give notification of the disease and provide information to the Commission and the other Member States in accordance with Annex I on:\nthe outbreaks of African swine fever which are confirmed in holdings,\nthe cases of African swine fever which are confirmed in a slaughterhouse or in means of transport,\nthe primary cases of African swine fever which are confirmed in feral pigs,\nthe results of the epidemiological inquiry carried out in accordance with Article 8;\n(b) provide information to the Commission and the other Member States on the further cases confirmed in feral pigs in an African swine fever infected area in accordance with Article 16(3)(a) and (4).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2002/60/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:55.777463+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."
}