# Commission Decision of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom (notified under document number C(2007) 3852) (Text with EEA relevance) (2007/552/EC), Article 7

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. The United Kingdom shall not dispatch hides and skins of bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates from those parts of its territory listed in the Annex I.
2. This prohibition shall not apply to hides and skins which were produced before 15 July 2007, or which conform to the requirements of point (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.
Care must be taken to separate effectively treated hides and skins from untreated hides and skins.
3. The United Kingdom shall ensure that hides and skins of bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates to be sent to other Member States shall be accompanied by a certificate which bears the following words:
‘Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision 2007/552/EC of 6 August 2007 on interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom’.
4. Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be sufficient, in the case of hides and skins which conform to the requirements of point (b) to (e) of paragraph 1 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 to be accompanied by a commercial document stating compliance with the conditions required for the treatment laid down in point (b) to (e) of paragraph 1 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.
5. Derogating from the provisions in paragraph 3 it shall be sufficient, in the case of hides and skins which conform to the requirements of point (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, that compliance with the conditions required for the treatment laid down in point (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with Article 9(1).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2007/552/article/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2007-552/article-7
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