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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-798/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-798/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/798",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 of 8 August 2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-798",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Avian influenza surveillance programmes",
  "text": "Where an avian influenza surveillance programme is required in the certificate, commodities shall only be imported into Great Britain from third countries, territories, zones or compartments where:\n(a)the third country, territory, zone or compartment has had in place for a period of at least six months an avian influenza surveillance programme, which is indicated by the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), in a document published for the purposes of this Article, and that programme meets the requirements:\n(i)set out in Part I of Annex IV; or\n(ii)of the Terrestrial Animal Health Code of the OIE;\n(b)the third country informs the appropriate authority of any changes to its avian influenza surveillance programme.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(11)(a) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(a) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(11)(b) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "http://www.oie.int/eng/normes/mcode/en_sommaire.htm"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/798/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:06.196728+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."
}