{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/annex-II/chapter-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/annex-II/chapter-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/139",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 139/2013 of 7 January 2013 laying down animal health conditions for imports of certain birds into the Union and the quarantine conditions thereof (codification) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139",
  "path": "annex/II/chapter/4",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Suspending, withdrawing or regranting approval of breeding establishments",
  "text": "The procedures for partly or completely suspending, withdrawing or regranting approval of breeding establishments shall comply with the conditions set out in this Chapter.\n(1)Where the competent authority finds that a breeding establishment no longer complies with the conditions set out in Chapters 1 and 2, or there has been a change of use so that it is no longer used exclusively for the breeding of birds, it shall suspend or withdraw the approval of such establishment.\n(2)Where the competent authority has received notification of the suspicion of avian influenza, Newcastle disease or Chlamydophila psittaci, it shall suspend the approval of the breeding establishment, until the suspicion has been officially ruled out. It shall ensure that the measures necessary to confirm or rule out the suspicion and to avoid any spread of disease are taken, in accordance with the requirements of relevant national legislation governing measures to be taken against the disease in question and on trade in animals.\n(3)Where the suspected disease is confirmed, the competent authority may only approve the breeding establishment again in accordance with Chapter 1 following:\n(a)the eradication of the disease and the source of infection in the breeding establishment;\n(b)the suitable cleaning and disinfection of the breeding establishment;\n(c)the fulfilling of the conditions laid down in Chapter 1, with the exception of point 4.\n(4)...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Annex 2 Ch. 4 point (2) 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), 63(17)(b)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex 2 Ch. 4 point (4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 63(17)(b)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/139/annex/II/chapter/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:51.130765+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."
}