{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1012/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1012/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/1012",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2016 on zootechnical and genealogical conditions for the breeding, trade in and entry into the Union of purebred breeding animals, hybrid breeding pigs and the germinal products thereof and amending Regulation (EU) No 652/2014, Council Directives 89/608/EEC and 90/425/EEC and repealing certain acts in the area of animal breeding (‘Animal Breeding Regulation’) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1012",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "General zootechnical and genealogical rules for trade in breeding animals and their germinal products, and for their entry into the United Kingdom",
  "text": "1. Trade in breeding animals and their germinal products and the entry into the United Kingdom of breeding animals and their germinal products shall not be prohibited, restricted or impeded on zootechnical or genealogical grounds other than those grounds resulting from the rules provided for in this Regulation.\n2. Breeders of breeding animals, breed societies, breeding operations or breeding bodies shall not be discriminated against on the basis of their country of origin or of the country of origin of their breeding animals or the germinal products thereof.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 3(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 3(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1012/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:45:45.338975+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."
}