{"topic_id":"eu_2016_429_keeping_pets","category":"eu-animal-welfare","context":"---\ntopic_id: eu_2016_429_keeping_pets\ncategory: eu-animal-welfare\ntitle: \"Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial)\"\nlang: en\nsource: \"Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429) — eur-lex first-hand English text, retrieved 2026-07-29 via local headless chromium (AWS WAF JS challenge solved with --virtual-time-budget=15000)\"\nsource_file: pdf-raw/eu-animal-welfare/reg_2016_429.txt\nsource_type: eu_regulation_text\ndate_parsed: 2026-07-29\ntokens_estimated: 250\nverification: C1_substring_match\nclaims: 3\nsource_document: \"Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)\"\ncitation:\n  authority: \"Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)\"\n  title: \"Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial)\"\n  url: \"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32016R0429\"\n  retrieved: \"2026-07-29\"\n  ref: \"eur-lex CELEX 32016R0429 (local chromium --dump-dom --virtual-time-budget=15000)\"\n  doc_type: \"official regulation (first-hand English text)\"\n  needs_review: false\n---\n\n# Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial)\n\nSource: Regulation (EU) 2016/429 (the 'Animal Health Law') lays down rules for the prevention and control of transmissible animal diseases. Recitals clarify the special status of pet animals kept for private, non-commercial purposes. All claims are verbatim, whitespace-normalised substrings of the eur-lex EN consolidated text (CELEX 32016R0429), retrieved 2026-07-29 via local headless chromium after solving the AWS WAF JS challenge.\n\n## Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)\n\n- `Humans often keep certain animals as pets in their households to keep them company.`\n- `The keeping of such pet animals for purely private purposes, including ornamental aquatic animals in households, both indoors and outdoors, generally poses a lower health risk compared to other ways of keeping or moving animals on a broader scale`\n- `Registration and record keeping requirements should therefore not apply to pet keepers.`\n","sources":["Regulation — Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial) (retrieved 2026-07-29)"],"source":{"authority":"Regulation","title":"Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial)","url":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32016R0429","retrieved":"2026-07-29","ref":"Regulation (EC) No 1","doc_type":"official PDF","source_document":"Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)","verification_file":"pdf-raw/eu-animal-welfare/reg_2016_429.txt"},"source_document":"Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)","source_file":"pdf-raw/eu-animal-welfare/reg_2016_429.txt","tokens_estimated":250,"generated_at":null,"tip":"Use /api/v1/topics to discover more topics. /api/v1/nutrient for precise single-point queries. /api/v1/cross_compare for 2-3 standard comparisons."}