{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-71/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2008-71/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Where the competent authority of the Member State of destination decides not to keep the identification mark allocated to the animal in the holding of origin all charges incurred as a result of replacing the mark shall be borne by that authority. Where the mark has been so replaced, a link shall be established between the identification allocated by the competent authority of the Member State of dispatch and the new identification allocated by the competent authority of the Member State of destination; that link shall be recorded in the register provided for in Article 4.\nThe option in the first subparagraph may not be invoked in the case of animals intended for slaughter which are imported under Article 8 without bearing a new mark in accordance with Article 5.\n2. Where the animals have been traded, the competent authority of the Member State of destination may, for the purposes of Article 5 of Directive 90/425/EEC, have recourse to Article 4 of Directive 89/608/EEC in order to obtain the information relating to the animals, their herd of origin and any movement to which they have been subject.",
  "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/2008/71/article/6",
    "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."
}