{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-139/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Direct transport of birds to approved quarantine facilities or centres",
  "text": "Birds shall be transported directly from the border control post to an approved quarantine facility or centre in cages or crates.\nThe total journey time from that post to that quarantine facility or centre must not normally exceed nine hours.\nWhen vehicles are used for this journey they shall be sealed by the competent authorities with a tamper proof seal.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in Art. 7 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(8) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/139/article/7",
    "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."
}