Article 2 Importation of live animals and animal products
United Kingdom
The F1appropriate authority shall authorise the importation into F2Great Britain of consignments of live animals and of animal products from New Zealand provided they are accompanied by a health certificate, F3in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, issued before departure of the consignment from New Zealand and drawn up in accordance with the following models:
where equivalence has been established for animal or public health measures and has been recorded in Annex V to the Agreement as ‘Yes (1)’, the model health certificate F4, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, and, when required, supplemented by the relevant additional attestations in accordance with:
- (i)
the special conditions referred to in Chapter 28 of Section 5 of Annex V to the Agreement;
- (ii)
the special conditions referred to in Annex II to this Decision;
- (iii)
the special conditions referred in Subchapter 29.B. of Section 5 of Annex V to the Agreement;
- (iv)
the guarantees of humane treatment at the time of killing at least equivalent to those provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009;
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The health certificates issued in accordance with the model referred to in paragraph (1)(a) may be issued after departure of the consignment from New Zealand of live animals and animal products with certification systems equivalence recorded in Chapter 27 of Annex V to the Agreement, provided that they include a reference to the appropriate Eligibility Document (‘ED’) and its date of issuance and that they are provided to the border F8control post on arrival of the consignment.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(a)(i)(aa) (with regs. 69-71)
- F2
Words in Art. 2(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(a)(i)(bb) (with regs. 69-71)
- F3
Words in Art. 2(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(a)(i)(cc) (with regs. 69-71)
- F4
Words in Art. 2(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)
- F5
Words in Art. 2(1)(b) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 113
- F6
Words in Art. 2(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(a)(iii)(bb) (with regs. 69-71)
- F7
Art. 2(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
- F8
Word in Art. 2(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 66(3)(c) (with regs. 69-71)