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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-38",
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  "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/38",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "38",
  "heading": "Requirements for movements of hatching eggs of poultry",
  "text": "Operators shall only move hatching eggs of poultry to another Member State when those eggs fulfil the following requirements:\n(a) they come from an approved establishment;\n(b) they come from flocks which have been continuously resident in one or more approved establishments keeping poultry since hatching or for at least the last 42 days prior to the collection of the eggs;\n(c) they come from animals which fulfil the requirements in Article 34(1)(b), (c) and (d);\n(d) they are individually marked with the approval number of the establishment of the flock of origin referred to in Article 21(a) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035;\n(e) they have been disinfected;\n(f) the relevant requirements related to vaccination as provided for in Articles 41 and 42.",
  "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/38",
    "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."
}