{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865/article-52.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2006/865",
  "legislation_title": "Commission regulation (EC) No 865/2006 of 4 May 2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865",
  "path": "article/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "Use of labels",
  "text": "1. The labels referred to in Article 2(6) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 792/2012 shall be used only for the movement between duly registered scientists and scientific institutions of non-commercial loans, donations and exchanges of herbarium specimens, preserved, dried or embedded museum specimens and live plant material for scientific study.\n2. A registration number shall be attributed to the scientists and scientific institutions referred to in paragraph 1 by the management authority ....\nThat registration number shall contain five digits, the first two of which shall be the two-letter ISO country code for the United Kingdom and the last three a unique number assigned to each institution by the competent management authority.\n3. The scientists and scientific institutions concerned shall complete boxes 1 to 5 of the label and, by the return of the part of the label provided for that purpose, immediately inform the management authority with which they are registered of all details about the use of every label.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 791/2012 of 23 August 2012 amending, as regards certain provisions relating to the trade in species of wild fauna and flora, Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(53)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(53)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/865/article/52",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:53:41.823546+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."
}