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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-688/article-9.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/9",
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  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Supplementary risk mitigating measures for operators of slaughterhouses",
  "text": "1. Operators of slaughterhouses shall ensure that animals of listed species for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) are slaughtered at the latest within 24 hours of arrival at the slaughterhouse when they come from another Member State and do not fulfil at least one of the following criteria:\n(a) they fulfil at least one of the requirements for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotype 1-24) set out in points 1 to 3 of Section 1 of Chapter 2 of Part II of Annex V Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689;\nor\n(b) they fulfil the conditions referred to in Article 43(2) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/689 that were agreed by the competent authority of the Member State of destination.\n2. In addition to the requirements laid down in paragraph 1, when animals of the species listed for infection with Bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) are transported through another Member State and do not fulfil at least one of the conditions laid down in Article 32(1)(a) to (c) or in Article 32(2), operators of slaughterhouses shall ensure that such animals are slaughtered at the latest within 24 hours of arrival at the slaughterhouse.",
  "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/9",
    "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."
}