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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-71.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/71",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Animal health certificate for certain kept terrestrial animals",
  "text": "1. Operators shall only move captive birds, honeybees, bumble bees except bumble bees from approved environmentally isolated production establishments, primates, dogs, cats, ferrets or other carnivores to another Member State if they are accompanied by an animal health certificate issued by the competent authority of the Member State of origin.\n2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, operators may move captive birds from exhibitions back to the Member State of origin of the birds in accordance with Article 67(3).\n3. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the animal health certificate issued by the competent authority of the Member State of origin for the movement of birds of prey from the establishment in the Member State of origin to a flight hunting exhibition in another Member State may accompany these birds of prey during their return from that exhibition to the Member State of origin, provided the movement takes place within the period of validity of that certificate.",
  "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/71",
    "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."
}