{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-206/annex-I/part-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2010/206",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-206",
  "path": "annex/I/part/5",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Conditions for the approval of assembly centres (referred to in Article 4)",
  "text": "In order to be approved, assembly centres must meet the following requirements:\nI.. They must be supervised by an official veterinarian.\nII.. They must each be situated at the centre of an area of at least 20 km in diameter in which, according to official findings, there has been no case of foot-and-mouth disease for at least a period of 30 days prior to their use as approved assembly centres.\nIII.. They must, before each use as approved assembly centres, be cleansed and disinfected with a disinfectant officially authorised in the exporting country as effective for the control of foot-and-mouth disease.\nIV.. They must have, taking into account their animal capacity:\n(a) a facility dedicated exclusively for use as an assembly centre;\n(b) appropriate facilities, that are easy to clean and disinfect, for loading, unloading and adequate housing of a suitable standard for the animals, for watering and feeding them, and for giving them any necessary treatment;\n(c) appropriate facilities for inspection and isolation;\n(d) appropriate equipment for cleaning and disinfecting rooms and trucks;\n(e) an appropriate storage area for fodder, litter and manure;\n(f) an appropriate system for collecting and disposal of waste water;\n(g) an office for the official veterinarian.\nV.. When operating, they must have sufficient veterinarians to carry out all duties set out in Part 5;\nVI.. They must only admit animals that are individually identified so as to guarantee traceability. To this end, when animals are admitted the owner or the person in charge of the centre must ensure that the animals are properly identified and accompanied by health documents or certificates for the species and categories involved.\nIn addition, the owner or the person in charge of the assembly centre must record on a register or in a data base, and retain for at least three years the name of the owner, the origin of the animals, the dates of entry and exit, the identification number of the animals or registration number of the herd of origin and the holding of destination, and, the registration number of the carrier and the registration number of the lorry delivering or collecting animals from that assembly centre.\nVII.. All animals passing through the assembly centre must fulfil the health conditions established for the introduction of the relevant category of animal into Great Britain.\nVIII.. Animals to be introduced into Great Britain which pass through an assembly centre must, within six days of arrival at the assembly centre, be loaded and dispatched directly to the border of the exporting country:\n(a) without coming into contact with cloven-hoofed animals other than animals which fulfil the health conditions established for the introduction of the relevant category of animal into Great Britain;\n(b) segregated into consignments so that no consignment contains both animals for breeding or production and animals for immediate slaughter;\n(c) in transport vehicles or containers which have first been cleansed and disinfected with a disinfectant officially authorised in the exporting country as effective for the control of foot-and-mouth disease and which are so constructed that faeces, urine, litter or fodder cannot flow or fall out during transportation.\nIX.. Where the conditions for the export of animals to Great Britain require that a test is carried out within a specified period before loading, that period must include any period of assembly, up to six days, from the date of arrival of the animals at the approved assembly centre.\nX.. The exporting third country must designate the centres which are approved for animals for breeding and production and those centres which are approved for animals for slaughter and must notify the appropriate authority of the names and addresses of such premises. That information must be updated regularly.\nXI.. The exporting third country shall determine the procedure for official supervision of approved assembly centres and shall ensure that such supervision is carried out.\nXII.. The approved assembly centres must be regularly inspected by the competent authority of the third country in order to check that the requirements for approval set out in points I to XI continue to be fulfilled.\nIf those inspections show that those conditions are no longer complied with, the approval of the centre must be suspended. The approval may be restored only when the competent authority of the third country is satisfied that the centre fully complies with the conditions set out in points I to XI.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 Pt. 5 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), 56(28)(c)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 1 Pt. 5 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), 56(28)(c)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Official Journal of the European Union L 73 of 20 March 2010)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/206/annex/I/part/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:53.580499+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."
}