{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/1251",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 of 12 December 2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Live molluscs and crustaceans intended for purification centres, dispatch centres and similar businesses before human consumption",
  "text": "Consignments of live molluscs and crustaceans intended for purification centres, dispatch centres and similar businesses before human consumption, shall be accompanied by an animal health certificate completed in accordance with the relevant model, where they:\n(a)are introduced into a constituent GB territory, a zone or a compartment where the constituent GB territory, zone or compartment concerned is:\n(i)declared free of one or more of the non-exotic diseases listed in Annex 1A; or\n(ii)subject to a surveillance or eradication programme ...;\n(b)are of species susceptible to one or more of the diseases for which the constituent GB territory, zone or compartment concerned is declared disease-free, or for which a surveillance or eradication programme applies, as referred to in point (a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(7)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(a)(i) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(7)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(a)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(7)(b)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(7)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1251/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:48.752272+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."
}