{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2018/659",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/659 of 12 April 2018 on the conditions for the entry into the Union of live equidae and of semen, ova and embryos of equidae (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Specific animal health requirements for transport by sea",
  "text": "1. The operator responsible for a consignment of equidae intended for entry into Great Britain by sea shall ensure compliance with the following:\n(a) the vessel is scheduled to dock directly at a port in the Union without calling into a port of a third country or in a part of the territory of a third country not included in Annex I;\n(b) the crates, containers or stalls and the surrounding airspace in the transport compartment are sprayed with an appropriate insect repellent in combination with an insecticide immediately after the closing of the compartment;\n(c) the captain of the vessel completes and signs the declaration , as published by the appropriate authority from time to time.\n2. By way of derogation from point (a) of paragraph 1, the appropriate authority may authorise direct transhipment from one vessel to another vessel which takes place in a country not listed in Annex I, provided:\n(a) the transhipment is carried out in the same port within the area of the same customs office under direct supervision of an official veterinarian or the responsible customs officer;\n(b) the equidae are during the transhipment protected from attacks by insect vectors of diseases transmissible to equidae;\n(c) the equidae do not come into contact with equidae of a different health status;\n(d) compliance with the conditions set out in point (b) of paragraph 1 and points (a), (b) and (c) of this paragraph is certified by the official veterinarian or the responsible customs officer in the Transhipment Manifest drawn up in accordance with the model , in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(1) 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), 68(14)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(1)(c) 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), 68(14)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(2) 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), 68(14)(b)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(2)(d) 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), 68(14)(b)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/659/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:44:10.598038+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."
}