{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/annex-III/division-B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/annex-III/division-B.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2007/1266",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 of 26 October 2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266",
  "path": "annex/III/division/B",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "B",
  "heading": "Semen of animals",
  "text": "Semen must have been obtained from donor animals which comply with at least one of the following conditions:\n(a)they have been kept outside a restricted zone for a period of at least 60 days before commencement of, and during, collection of the semen;\n(b)they have been protected against attacks by vectors in a vector protected establishment in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex II for a period of at least 60 days before commencement of, and during, collection of the semen;\n(c)they were kept during the seasonally vector-free period in a bluetongue seasonally-free zone, defined in accordance with Annex V, for a period of at least 60 days before commencement of, and during, collection of the semen and were subjected to an agent identification test according to the OIE Terrestrial Manual, with negative results, carried out not earlier than seven days before the date of commencement of collection of the semen.\nHowever, that agent identification test shall not be necessary ... where sufficient epidemiological data, obtained following the implementation of a monitoring programme during a period of not less than three years, substantiate the determination of the seasonally vector-free period, as defined in Annex V.\n...\n(d)they have been subjected to a serological test according to the OIE Terrestrial Manual to detect antibodies to the bluetongue virus group, with negative results, at least every 60 days during the collection period and between 21 and 60 days following the final collection of the semen to be consigned;\n(e)they have been subjected, with negative results, to an agent identification test according to the OIE Terrestrial Manual carried out on blood samples collected:\n(i)at commencement and final collection of the semen to be consigned; and\n(ii)during the period of semen collection:\nat least every seven days, in the case of a virus isolation test, or\nat least every 28 days, in the case of a polymerase chain reaction test.\nWhere the semen referred to in this Section is intended for trade, the following additional wording must be added to the relevant corresponding health certificates:\n‘Semen obtained from donor animals which comply with … ( point (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), indicate as appropriate ) of Annex III.B to Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007’ .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 289/2008 of 31 March 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 456/2012 of 30 May 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 on implementing rules for Council Directive 2000/75/EC as regards the control, monitoring, surveillance and restrictions on movements of certain animals of susceptible species in relation to bluetongue (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 s. B point (c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 14(12)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1108/2008 of 7 November 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 as regards the minimum requirements for bluetongue monitoring and surveillance programmes and the conditions for exempting semen from the exit ban provided for in Council Directive 2000/75/EC (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 s. B point (e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 14(12)(b)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 25(11)(g)(ii)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2007/1266/annex/III/division/B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:37.749566+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."
}