{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1997-35/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1997-35/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "eur/1997/35",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 35/97 of 10 January 1997 laying down provisions on the certification of pelts and goods covered by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1997-35",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. The provisions of Article 1 shall not apply:\nto finished goods covered by a procedure for temporary admission and which are not for sale in the United Kingdom but are intended for export or re-export, nor,\nto finished goods for personal and private use, nor\nto cases where pelts and goods manufactured therefrom are being reintroduced into the United Kingdom following an outward processing procedure and proof is given that they were processed from pelts or goods previously exported or re-exported from the United Kingdom.\n2. Where the introduction into the United Kingdom of the pelts and goods covered by Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91 is also subject to the prior presentation of an import document under Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein, such a document shall be issued only if the pelts or goods concerned meet the requirements of both Regulations. Where an import document provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 is thus issued, it shall be accepted in lieu of the certificate referred to in Article 1 (2) of this Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(4)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(4)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 3(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(4)(b)(iii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1997/35/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:58:56.589661+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."
}