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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-58.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/58",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Requirements for the movement of other carnivores to other Member States",
  "text": "1. Operators shall only move other carnivores to another Member State when those other carnivores fulfil the following requirements:\n(a) the animals are either individually identified or identified as a group of animals of the same species kept together during the movement to destination;\n(b) the animals come from an establishment in which infection with rabies virus in kept terrestrial animals has not been reported during the last 30 days prior to departure,\n(c) the animals have received a complete primary course of anti-rabies vaccination at least 21 days prior to departure, or have been re-vaccinated against rabies in accordance with the validity requirements set out in Part 1 of Annex VII;\n(d) in case of canidae, the animals have been subjected to the risk-mitigation measures for infestation with Echinococcus multilocularis in accordance with Part 2(2) of Annex VII within the required period set out therein prior to entering a Member State or zone thereof eligible to require the application of those measures;\n(e) insofar as measures were adopted pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/429 for an infection other than rabies listed for carnivores or certain carnivore species, the animals of the species included in those measures have been subjected to the risk-mitigation measures in accordance with of Part 2(3) of Annex VII for those carnivore species within the required period set out therein prior to entering a Member State or zone thereof eligible to require the application of those measures to animals belonging to those carnivore species.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1(c) and (d), operators may move other carnivores not vaccinated against rabies and canidae not treated against infestation with Echinococcus multilocularis when the animals are transported directly to\n(a) a confined establishment;\nor\n(b) an establishment where these animals are kept as fur animals as defined in point (1) of Annex I to Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 of 25 February 2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption and implementing Council Directive 97/78/EC as regards certain samples and items exempt from veterinary checks at the border under that Directive (OJ L 54, 26.2.2011, p. 1)."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2020/688/article/58",
    "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."
}