{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1991/3254",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EEC) no 3254/91 of 4 November 1991 prohibiting the use of leghold traps in the Community and the introduction into the Community of pelts and manufactured goods of certain wild animal species originating in countries which catch them by means of leghold traps or trapping methods which do not meet international humane trapping standards",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1991-3254",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of Article 3, pelts are to be considered to originate from an approved country only where the designated competent authority of the country from which the pelts, or the goods into which the pelts has been incorporated, have been exported or re-exported to the UK has certified, in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 35/97 laying down provisions on the certification of pelts and goods covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91, that such pelts originate in—\n(a) an approved country; or\n(b) the United Kingdom.\nThe Secretary of State may, by regulations, amend Council Regulation (EC) No 35/97 laying down provision on the certification of pelts and goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 2(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1590, regs. 1(1)(b)(i), 4(2)(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/473), regs. 1, 10(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1991/3254/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:01:44.487661+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."
}