{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1997-1255/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/1997/1255",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97 of 25 June 1997 concerning Community criteria for control posts and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1997-1255",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/97\nof 25 June 1997\nconcerning Community criteria for control posts and amending the route plan referred to in the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC\nTHE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,\nHaving regard to Council Directive 91/628/EEC of 19 November 1991 on the protection of animals during transport and amending Directives 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC, and in particular Article 13 (2) and Article 14 thereof,\nHaving regard to the proposal from the Commission,\nWhereas Directive 91/628/EEC lays do wn, in order to improve the welfare of certain categories of transported animals, requirements concerning maximum journey times after which the animals are to be unloaded, fed and watered and rested for at least 24 hours before travelling further;\nWhereas such obligatory breaks in the long-distance transport of animals will take place at control posts;\nWhereas it is necessary to lay down criteria applicable throughout the Community to be met by control posts so as to ensure the optimum welfare conditions for the animals passing through them and also to provide for certain incidental animal health matters;\nWhereas, in order to facilitate the control of the operation of control posts and the vehicles and animals passing through them, it is necessary to provide for the keeping of records and certain other administrative matters;\nWhereas, in order to guarantee that the animals transported continue their journey under optimum welfare conditions, the competent authority should ascertain that they are fit to do so;\nWhereas, pending measures aimed at charging a Community fee for expenditure incurred by veterinary checks to ascertain whether animals are fit to continue their journey, it should be stipulated that Member States may, in compliance with the general rules of the Treaty, charge such expenditure to the operator concerned;\nWhereas to ensure compliance with certain rules applicable to staging posts, the route plan referred to in Chapter VIII of the Annex to Directive 91/628/EEC should be adjusted to the new provisions;\nWhereas it is important to establish as a first step the rules for control posts accommodating domestic solipeds and domestic animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species;\nWhereas the Scientific Veterinary Committee has recommended certain minimum requirements for control posts, which have been taken into account,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 of 22 December 2004 on the protection of animals during transport and related operations and amending Directives 64/432/EEC and 93/119/EC and Regulation (EC) No 1255/97."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 340, 11.12.1991, p. 17. Directive as last amended by Directive 95/29/EC (OJ No L 148, 30.6.1995, p. 52)."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}