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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-999/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eur/2020/999",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/999 of 9 July 2020 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the approval of germinal product establishments and the traceability of germinal products of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2020-999",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Technical requirements and specifications for the marking of germinal products of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals and operational requirements for their traceability",
  "text": "1. Operators marking germinal products of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine and equine animals as required by Article 121(1) of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 shall ensure:\n(a) that each straw or other package, in which semen, oocytes or embryos, whether or not separated into individual doses, are placed, stored and transported, is marked in accordance with the traceability requirements laid down in Article 10 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/686 and the technical requirements and specifications for marking set out in Part 1 of the Annex to this Regulation;\n(b) compliance with the operational requirements for the traceability of germinal products set out in Part 2 of the Annex.\n2. Each Member State shall establish, based on the technical requirements and specifications for marking set out in Part 1 of the Annex, rules concerning the characteristics and form of the marking of straws and other packages, in which the germinal products are placed, stored and transported, used in its territory and it shall transmit that information to the Commission and to the other Member States.",
  "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/2020/999/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:32.761234+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."
}