{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2009/1069",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Animal by-products Regulation)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1069",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "General animal health restrictions",
  "text": "1. Animal by-products and derived products from susceptible species shall not be dispatched from holdings, establishments, plants or zones which are subject to restrictions:\n(a) pursuant to veterinary legislation forming part of assimilated law; or\n(b) due to the presence of a serious transmissible disease:\n(i)listed in Annex I to Directive 92/119/EEC; or\n(ii)provided for by Article 4 of the Implementing Regulation; or\n(iii)laid down in regulations made by the appropriate authority under the second subparagraph.\n() The appropriate authority may, by regulations, impose restrictions prohibiting animal by-products and derived products from susceptible species from being dispatched from a holding, establishment, plant or zone specified in the regulations.\n2. Paragraph 1 shall not apply where animal by-products and derived products are dispatched under conditions designed to prevent the spread of diseases transmissible to humans or animals as laid down in regulations made by the appropriate authority under the second subparagraph.\nWhere the appropriate authority considers it necessary or expedient to impose conditions to prevent the spread of a disease that is transmissible from animals to humans, the appropriate authority may, by regulations, impose conditions that must be complied with when animal by-products and derived products from susceptible species are being dispatched from a holding, establishment, plant or zone.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1)(a) substituted (E.W.S.) (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), 12(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6(1)(a) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 86(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 6(1)(b)(ii)(iii) substituted for Art. 6(1)(b)(ii) (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(4)(a)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(4)(a)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(4)(b)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 8(4)(b)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1069/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T17:55:11.562225+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."
}