{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/686",
  "legislation_title": "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)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-686",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Additional animal health requirements for donor porcine animals from which semen, oocytes and embryos were collected",
  "text": "1. The centre veterinarian, as regards donor animals of semen, or the team veterinarian, as regards donor animals of oocytes and embryos, shall ensure that donor porcine animals comply with the following requirements:\n(a) they came from an establishment, in the case of donor animals of semen prior their admission to a quarantine accommodation, where no clinical, serological, virological or pathological evidence of infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus had been detected during a period of at least the preceding 12 months;\n(b) they fulfil additional animal health requirements laid down in Part 2 and Chapters I and IV of Part 5 of Annex II.\n2. The centre veterinarian shall ensure that donor porcine animals of semen comply with the following requirements:\n(a) prior to their admission to a quarantine accommodation, they came from an establishment which was free from infection with Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis in accordance with the requirements laid down in Chapter IV of Part 5 of Annex II;\n(b) they were kept at the quarantine accommodation which on the day of admission was free from infection with Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis and Brucella suis for the period of at least the preceding 3 months;\n(c) they are kept in a semen collection centre where no clinical, serological, virological or pathological evidence of infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus has been reported for a period comprising at least 30 days prior to the date of admission and at least 30 days immediately prior to the date of collection;\n(d) they have not been vaccinated against infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and were kept, since birth or for a period comprising at least 3 months prior to the date of entry into the quarantine accommodation, in an establishment where no animals have been vaccinated against infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus and no infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus was detected during that period.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/686/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:38.781688+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."
}