{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-158/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-158/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/2009/158",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive 2009/158/EC of 30 November 2009 on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of, poultry and hatching eggs (codified version) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2009-158",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The requirements of Articles 5 to 11 and 18 shall not apply to intra-Community trade in poultry and hatching eggs in respect of consignments comprising fewer than 20 units provided that they comply with paragraph 2 of this Article.\n2. Poultry and hatching eggs as referred to in paragraph 1 shall, at the time of consignment, have come from flocks which:\n(a) have been held in the Community since hatching or for at least three months;\n(b) present no clinical signs of a contagious poultry disease at the time of consignment;\n(c) satisfy the vaccination conditions in Annex III, if they have been vaccinated;\n(d) are not the subject of any animal health restrictions applicable to poultry;\n(e) are not located in an area which for animal health reasons is subject to restrictive measures in accordance with Community legislation as a result of an outbreak of disease to which poultry is susceptible.\nAll birds in the consignment shall have been found negative in serological tests for Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum antibodies, in accordance with Annex II, Chapter III, in the month preceding the consignment. In the case of hatching eggs or day-old chicks, the flock of origin shall be tested serologically for Salmonella pullorum and Salmonella gallinarum in the three months preceding the consignment at a level which gives 95 % confidence of detecting infection at 5 % prevalence.\n3. The provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 shall not apply to consignments containing ratites or hatching eggs of ratites.",
  "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/2009/158/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:22:04.009295+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."
}