Annex III Requirements for veterinary certificates as referred to in Article 11X1

The representative of the competent authority of dispatch issuing a veterinary certificate to accompany a consignment of animals must sign the certificate and ensure that it bears an official stamp. This requirement applies to each sheet of the certificate if it consists of more than one.

Veterinary certificates must be drawn up in the official language or languages of the Member State of destination and those of the Member State in which the border inspection takes place, or be accompanied by a certified translation into that language or those languages. However, a Member State may consent to the use of an official Community language other than its own.

The original version of the veterinary certificate must accompany the consignments on entry into the Community.

Veterinary certificates must consist of:

1. (a)

   a single sheet of paper;

   or

2. (b)

   two or more pages that are part of a single and indivisible sheet of paper;

   or

3. (c)

   a sequence of pages numbered so as to indicate that it is a particular page in a finite sequence (for example, ‘ page 2 of four pages ’ ).

Veterinary certificates must bear a unique identifying number. Where the veterinary certificate consists of a sequence of pages, each page must indicate the unique identifying number.

The veterinary certificate must be issued before the consignment to which it relates leaves the control of the competent authority of the country of dispatch.