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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865/article-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865/article-63.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/63",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Pre-issued certificates under Article 8(3) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97",
  "text": "1. For the purposes of Article 8(3)(d) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97, the management authority may make pre-issued certificates available to breeders approved by the management authority for that purpose, provided that they maintain breeding records and that they produce those records, on request, to the ... management authority.\nSuch certificates shall, in box 20, include the following statement:\n‘Certificate only valid for the following taxon/taxa: …’\n2. For the purposes of Article 8(3)(d) and (h) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97, the management authority may make pre-issued certificates available to persons who have been approved by the management authority to sell on the basis of such certificates dead captive-bred specimens and/or small numbers of dead specimens legally taken from the wild within Great Britain, provided that any such person meets the following requirements:\n(a) he maintains a record, which is produced on request to the ... management authority and which contains details of specimens/species sold, the cause of death if known, the persons from whom specimens were acquired and the persons to whom they were sold;\n(b) he submits an annual report to the ... management authority which contains details of sales during that year, the type and number of specimens, the species concerned and how the specimens were acquired.\n3. Pre-issued certificates shall only be valid once they have been completed and a copy of the certificate is transmitted to the issuing management authority by the applicant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(62)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(1) 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(62)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(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(62)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 63(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(62)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(2)(a) 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(62)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 63(2)(b) 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(62)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Inserted 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2006/865/article/63",
    "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."
}