{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2015/262",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262 of 17 February 2015 laying down rules pursuant to Council Directives 90/427/EEC and 2009/156/EC as regards the methods for the identification of equidae (Equine Passport Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2015-262",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Information concerning issuing bodies",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority shall draw up and keep up-to-date the list of issuing bodies referred to in Article 5(1) and make that list available to ... Member States, the competent authority for Northern Ireland, the other issuing bodies and the public on a website established by the competent authority.\n2. The list referred to in paragraph 1 shall:\n(a) include the contact details necessary to comply with the requirements of Article 35 and Articles 37(4), 38(3) and 40(1);\n(b) comply with the model template set out in point (f) of Section I in Chapter 2 of Annex II to Decision 2009/712/EC and the requirements set out in Annex III to that Decision;\n(c) ... be sufficiently intuitive for non-native speakers.\n3. The appropriate authority must make the information in the list provided for in paragraph 1 available on a website which must be directly accessible to member States, the competent authority for Northern Ireland, the public and issuing bodies.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 9(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 9(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by y The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 9(a)(iii) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 27(8)(a)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 9(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 6(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Equine (Records, Identification and Movement) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/591), regs. 1, 9(c) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1388, regs. 1(2)(a), 27(8)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/262/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:51.000801+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."
}