{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-71/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-71/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2008/71",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2008/71/EC of 15 July 2008 on the identification and registration of pigs (Codified version)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-71",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of this Directive, the following definitions shall apply:\n(a) ‘animal’ means any animal of the Suidae family, excluding feral pigs as defined in Article 2(b) of Council Directive 2001/89/EC of 23 October 2001 on Community measures for the control of classical swine fever;\n(b) ‘holding’ means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place in which animals are held, kept or handled;\n(c) ‘keeper’ means any natural or legal person responsible, even on a temporary basis, for animals;\n(d) ‘competent authority’ means the central authority of a Member State competent to carry out veterinary checks or any authority to which it has delegated that competence for the purposes of implementing this Directive;\n(e) ‘trade’ means trade as defined in point (3) of Article 2 of Directive 90/425/EEC.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 316, 1.12.2001, p. 5. Directive as last amended by Commission Decision 2007/729/EC (OJ L 294, 13.11.2007, p. 26)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2008/71/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:19.571659+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."
}