{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1108/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1108/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/1108",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1108",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Regulation (EC) No 1266/2007 is amended as follows:\n1.. Annex I is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation;\n2.. in Section B of Annex III, points (d) and (e) are replaced by the following:\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.’",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1108/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:52.706989+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."
}