{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-130/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-130/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2006/130",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Directive 2006/130/EC of 11 December 2006 implementing Directive 2001/82/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the establishment of criteria for exempting certain veterinary medicinal products for food-producing animals from the requirement of a veterinary prescription (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2006-130",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Veterinary medicinal products for food-producing animals may be exempted from the requirement to be dispensed only against veterinary prescription, if all of the following criteria are satisfied:\n(a) the administration of veterinary medicinal products is restricted to formulations requiring no particular knowledge or skill in using the products;\n(b) the veterinary medicinal product does not present a direct or indirect risk, even if administered incorrectly, to the animal or animals treated, to the person administering the product or to the environment;\n(c) the summary of product characteristics of the veterinary medicinal product does not contain any warnings of potential serious side effects deriving from its correct use;\n(d) neither the veterinary medicinal product nor any other product containing the same active substance has previously been the subject of frequent serious adverse reaction reporting;\n(e) the summary of product characteristics does not refer to contraindications related to other veterinary medicinal products commonly used without prescription;\n(f) the veterinary medicinal product is not subject to special storage conditions;\n(g) there is no risk for consumer safety as regards residues in food obtained from treated animals even where the veterinary medicinal products are used incorrectly;\n(h) there is no risk to human or animal health as regards the development of resistance to antimicrobials or anthelmintic substances even where the veterinary medicinal products containing those substances are used incorrectly.",
  "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/2006/130/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:29.535000+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."
}