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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-products-control-of-personal-importation-scotland-order-2025/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2025/230",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal Products (Control of Personal Importation) (Scotland) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-products-control-of-personal-importation-scotland-order-2025",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order makes provision for the purpose of preventing the introduction of animal diseases into Great Britain through the bringing of certain animal products into Scotland from certain countries or territories, as part of passengers’ personal luggage for personal consumption or use or by sending those animal products to an individual, not to be placed on the market.\nArticle 3 prohibits the import of products from susceptible animals into Scotland from territories subject to special transitional import arrangements, as part of a passengers personal luggage intended for personal consumption or use or by sending it to an individual, not to be placed on the market. Products from susceptible animals, by or by means of which disease might be carried or transmitted, are defined in article 2 and are products made or derived, wholly or partly, from cattle, sheep, goats, deer, camels, llamas, alpacas, guanacos, vicunas, other ruminants, swine or elephants. The territories subject to special transitional import arrangements are defined in article 2 as EEA states, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Switzerland. Such products may be imported subject to meeting the requirements for commercial consignments from territories subject to special transitional import arrangements in the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/177) (“the 2012 Regulations”). Restrictions on the import of animal products into Scotland from other countries and territories, as part of a passengers’ personal luggage or in consignments sent to individuals, are to be found in the 2012 Regulations, read with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122 as regards certain categories of animals and goods exempted from official controls at border control posts, specific controls on passengers’ personal luggage and on small consignments of goods sent to natural persons which are not intended to be placed on the market (EUR 2019/2122).\nArticle 4 provides that the prohibition in article 3 does not apply to the import of powdered infant milk, infant food, special foods required for medical reasons, petfood required for health-related reasons, confectionery and chocolate, pasta and noodles, bread, cakes, biscuits, waffles, wafers, rusks, toasted products and food supplements which meet certain conditions.\nArticle 5 revokes the African Swine Fever (Import Controls) (England and Scotland) Order 2022, which restricts the importation of porcine products from territories subject to special transitional import arrangements, in consequence of this Order and amendments that have been made to the special transitional import arrangements in the 2012 Regulations since that Order came into force.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2025/230/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:34:39.695208+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."
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