{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1081/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1081/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/1081",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/1081 of 8 March 2019 establishing rules on specific training requirements for staff for performing certain physical checks at border control posts (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-1081",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "General obligations on the competent authorities concerning training",
  "text": "1. The staff referred to in Article 1(1)(a) and (b) may assist the official veterinarian in the performance of physical checks or perform physical checks in accordance with Article 49(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 only where they have successfully completed a training programme that complies with the requirements of Article 3 of this Regulation (the training programme).\n2. The competent authorities shall develop and arrange the training programme to ensure that the physical checks referred to in Article 1 are performed with the necessary level of technical competence and expertise. The training programme shall be both theoretical and practical.\n3. The competent authorities shall keep records of the training programme on paper or in electronic form for each individual, including the dates, duration, programme description, and, where appropriate, certificates attesting the successful completion of the training programme by staff. The competent authorities ... shall ensure that each border control post within the territory for which they are responsible has access to training records kept on paper or in electronic format.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 20(2)(a) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 20(2)(b) (with regs. 33-36)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/1081/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:43:17.690391+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."
}