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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-45",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-45.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/45",
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  "number": "45",
  "heading": "Detailed rules for biosecurity measures for assembly operations",
  "text": "1. Operators of establishments approved for assembly operations shall ensure that\n(a) the establishment or epidemiologically separate animal accommodation areas within the establishment are emptied of animals and cleaned and disinfected at regular intervals not exceeding 14 days of uninterrupted occupation;\n(b) the tyres of the means of transport, from which animals are unloaded or onto which animals are loaded, are disinfected before leaving the establishment.\n2. Operators carrying out assembly operations of kept ungulates or poultry on means of transport shall ensure that the tyres of the means of transport are disinfected before leaving the establishment of origin.",
  "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/45",
    "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."
}