{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-1266/article-9.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": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Further conditions for the transit of animals",
  "text": "1. The transit of animals shall be allowed by the competent authority provided that:\n(a) after adequate cleansing and disinfection at the place of loading, the means in which the animals are transported are treated with authorised insecticides and/or repellents. This treatment must in any case take place prior to leaving or entering the restricted zone;\n(b) when a rest period of more than one day is foreseen at a control post during the movement through a restricted zone, the animals are protected against attacks by vectors in a vector protected establishment in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex II.\n2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply if the transit takes place:\n(a) exclusively from or through epidemiologically relevant geographical areas of the restricted zone during the bluetongue seasonally vector-free period defined in accordance with Annex V; or\n(b) from or through parts of the restricted zone demarcated as a ‘provisionally free area’ in accordance with Article 7(2a).\n3. For the animals referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, the following additional wording shall be added to the corresponding health certificates ...: ‘Insecticide/repellent treatment with … (insert name of the product) on … (insert date) in conformity with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "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": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 9(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1410), regs. 1, 14(9); 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/article/9",
    "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."
}