{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/article-5.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": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Import conditions",
  "text": "Imports of birds shall be authorised only if the birds comply with the following conditions:\n(a)the birds are captive bred birds;\n(b)the birds must originate from third countries or parts thereof referred to in Annex I;\n(c)the birds come from approved breeding establishments that comply with the conditions laid down in Article 4;\n(d)the birds were subjected to a laboratory virus detection test 7 to 14 days prior to shipment with negative results for any avian influenza and Newcastle disease virus;\n(e)the birds have not been vaccinated against avian influenza;\n(f)the birds are accompanied by an animal health certificate , in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time;\n(g)the birds are identified with an individual identification number by means of a uniquely marked seamlessly closed leg-ring or a microchip in accordance with Article 66(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 865/2006;\n(h)the individual identification number of leg-rings or microchips provided for in point (g) must contain at least the following:\nthe ISO code of the exporting third country performing the identification,\na unique serial number;\n(i)the individual identification number provided for in point (g) must be registered on the animal health certificate;\n(j)the birds are transported in new containers which are individually identified externally with an identification number that must correspond with the identification number indicated on the animal health certificate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(f) 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(6) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 166, 19.6.2006, p. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/139/article/5",
    "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."
}