{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-21.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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Specific animal health conditions regarding imports of equidae for slaughter",
  "text": "The operator, as identified in the relevant part of the CHED referred to in point (i) of Article 16(1)(b), of a consignment of equidae for slaughter shall ensure that after the checks carried out at the border control post of entry into Great Britain, the animals:\n(a)are either conveyed directly, without delay and without coming into contact with equidae of a different health status, to the slaughterhouse of destination where they shall be slaughtered within 72 hours of arrival at the slaughterhouse; or\n(b)pass through a single approved market or marshalling centre , as indicated in the relevant health certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, from where they are to be removed after the market under national rules ensuring traceability directly to a slaughterhouse to be slaughtered, as soon as possible, but at the latest within 5 working days of arrival in Great Britain without coming into contact with equidae of a different health status.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 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(28)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 21 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(28)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in Art. 21 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(28)(a)(iii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 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(28)(a)(iv) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21(b) 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(28)(b)(aa) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21(b) 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(28)(b)(bb) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/659/article/21",
    "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."
}