{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-659/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Period of validity of health certificates",
  "text": "1. The operator responsible for a consignment of equidae or of semen, ova or embryos of equidae intended for entry into Great Britain shall ensure that the consignment is presented to an approved border control post authorised for the consignment concerned no later than 10 days from the date of certification of the consignment in the third country of dispatch.\n2. Where equidae are transported by sea, the period of 10 days referred to in paragraph 1 shall be extended by the time of transport on sea.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 7(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(10)(a) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 7(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(10)(b) (with regs. 69-71)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/659/article/7",
    "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."
}