{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1012/article-35",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-1012/article-35.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/35",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Equivalence of measures applied to animal breeding in third countries",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority may make regulations, recognising that measures applied in a third country are equivalent to those required by this Regulation in relation to the following:\n(a) the recognition of breed societies and breeding operations provided for in Article 4;\n(b) the approval of breeding programmes of breed societies and breeding operations provided for in Article 8;\n(c) the entry of purebred breeding animals in breeding books and the registration of hybrid breeding pigs in breeding registers provided for in Articles 18, 20 and 23;\n(d) the acceptance of breeding animals for breeding provided for in Articles 21, 22 and 24;\n(e) the use of germinal products of breeding animals for testing and breeding provided for in Articles 21 and 24;\n(f) the performance testing and genetic evaluation provided for in Article 25;\n(g) the official controls on operators provided for in Article 43.\n...\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. Regulations under paragraph 1 may set out detailed arrangements governing the entry of breeding animals and their germinal products into the United Kingdom from a third country and may include:\n(a) the format and content of the zootechnical certificates accompanying those breeding animals or the germinal products thereof;\n(b) specific requirements applicable to the entry into the United Kingdom of those breeding animals or the germinal products thereof and the official controls to be performed on those breeding animals or on the germinal products thereof upon entry into the United Kingdom;\n(c) where necessary, procedures for drawing up and amending lists of breeding bodies, located in the third country concerned, from which the entry into the United Kingdom of breeding animals and the germinal products thereof is permitted.\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 35(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(a)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 35(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(a)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 35(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(b) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 35(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(c)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 35(3)(b)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(c)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Art. 35(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(d) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/1012/article/35",
    "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."
}