{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2020/688",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 of 17 December 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards animal health requirements for movements within the Union of terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Derogation for movements of kept porcine animals intended for slaughter to other Member States",
  "text": "1. By way of derogation from the requirements set out in Article 19, operators may move kept porcine animals intended for slaughter to another Member State when those animals come from an establishment\n(a) in which infection with rabies virus in kept terrestrial animals has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure;\n(b) in which anthrax in ungulates has not been reported during the last 15 days prior to departure.\n2. By way of derogation from the requirements set out in Article 20, operators may move kept porcine animals intended for slaughter to another Member State or zone thereof with the status free from infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus or with an approved eradication programme for infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus when in compliance with the requirements in paragraph 1 and the following requirements are fulfilled:\n(a) the animals come from an establishment in which infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure;\n(b) the animals are transported directly to the slaughterhouse in the Member State of destination without undergoing any assembly operations in that Member State or zone thereof, or any Member State or zone thereof of passage with the status free from infection with Aujeszky’s disease virus.",
  "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/2020/688/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:38.340952+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."
}