# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/686 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the approval of germinal product establishments and the traceability and animal health requirements for movements within the Union of germinal products of certain kept terrestrial animals (Text with EEA relevance), Article 17: Responsibilities of centre veterinarians and team veterinarians for compliance with the animal health requirements for donor bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals from which germinal products were collected from establishments subject to movement restrictions on animal health grounds

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Centre veterinarians, as regards donor animals of semen, or team veterinarians, as regards donor animals of oocytes and embryos, shall ensure that semen, oocytes and embryos, collected at either a semen collection centre or an establishment which is subjected to movement restrictions on animal health grounds concerning the diseases referred to in Article 16(b), 20, 21, 22 or 23, comply with the following requirements:
(a) they must be kept in separate storage;
(b) they must not be moved between Member States until the movement restrictions applied to either the semen collection centre or the establishment where the semen was collected has been removed by the competent authorities; and
(c) the semen, oocytes and embryos stored must have undergone the appropriate official investigations to rule out the presence in the semen, oocytes and embryos of animal pathogens causing the diseases for which the movement restrictions were established.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/686/article/17 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686/article-17
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