{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-33.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/33",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Biosecurity and risk-mitigating measures for transport operations through another Member State or zone thereof with the status free from, or with an approved eradication programme for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24)",
  "text": "1. Operators shall only move animals of listed species for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) through another Member State or zone thereof of passage with the status free from, or with an approved eradication programme for that disease, where at least one of the following requirements are fulfilled:\n(a) the animals fulfil at least one of one of the requirements set out in points 1 to 3 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V to Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689;\nor\n(b) the means of transport where the animals are loaded have been protected from attacks by vectors during transport;\nand\n(i) the planned journey does not include the unloading of the animals for a period longer than one day;\nor\n(ii) the animals are unloaded in a vector protected establishment or during the vector-free period.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the competent authority of the Member State of origin may authorise the movements of animals of listed species for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) through another Member State or zone thereof of passage with the status free from, or with an approved eradication programme for that disease, if the Member State of passage has informed the Commission and the other Member States that such movements are authorised under the conditions laid down in Article 43(2)(a), (c) and (d) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/688/article/33",
    "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."
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