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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865/article-57",
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  "legislation": "eur/2006/865",
  "legislation_title": "Commission regulation (EC) No 865/2006 of 4 May 2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2006-865",
  "path": "article/57",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Introduction and reintroduction into Great Britain of personal and household effects",
  "text": "1. The derogation from Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 338/97 for personal or household effects, provided for in Article 7(3) of that Regulation, shall not apply to specimens used for commercial gain, sold, displayed for commercial purposes, kept for sale, offered for sale or transported for sale.\nThat derogation shall only apply to specimens, including hunting trophies, if they are not subject to any additional measures, conditions or restrictions set out in guidance published under Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97 and meet one of the following conditions:\n(a) they are contained in the personal luggage of travellers coming from a third country;\n(b) they are contained in the personal property of a natural person transferring his normal place of residence from a third country to Great Britain;\n(c) they are hunting trophies taken by a traveller and imported at a later date.\n2. The derogation from Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 338/97 for personal or household effects, provided for in Article 7(3) of that Regulation, shall not apply to specimens of species listed in Annex A thereto where they are introduced into Great Britain for the first time by a person normally residing in, or taking up residence in, Great Britain.\n3. The first introduction into Great Britain of personal or household effects, including hunting trophies, by a person normally residing in Great Britain and involving specimens of species listed in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 shall not require the presentation to customs of an import permit, provided that the original of a (re-)export document and a copy thereof are presented.\n...\n3a. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, the first introduction into Great Britain of hunting trophies of specimens of species or populations listed in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 and in Annex XIII to this Regulation shall be subject to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 338/97.\n4. The reintroduction into Great Britain, by a person normally residing in Great Britain, of personal or household effects, including hunting trophies, that are specimens of species listed in Annex A or B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 shall not require the presentation to customs of an import permit, provided that one of the following is presented:\n(a) the customs-endorsed ‘copy for the holder’ (form 2) of a previously used import or export permit issued in Great Britain;\n(b) the copy of the (re-)export document referred to in paragraph 3;\n(c) proof that the specimens were acquired within Great Britain.\n5. By way of derogation from paragraphs 3 and 4, the introduction or re-introduction into Great Britain of the following items listed in Annex B to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 shall not require the presentation of a (re-)export document or an import permit:\n(a) caviar of sturgeon species ( Acipenseriformes spp.), up to a maximum of 125 grams per person, in containers that are individually marked in accordance with Article 66(6);\n(b) rainsticks of Cactaceae spp., up to three per person;\n(c) dead worked specimens of Crocodylia spp., excluding meat and hunting trophies, up to four per person;\n(d) shells of Strombus gigas , up to three per person;\n(e) Hippocampus spp. up to four dead specimens per person;\n(f) shells of Tridacnidae spp. up to three specimens per person not exceeding three kg in total, where a specimen may be one intact shell or two matching halves;\n(g) specimens of agarwood ( Aquilaria spp. and Gyrinops spp.) — up to 1 kg woodchips, 24 ml oil, and two sets of beads or prayer beads (or two necklaces or bracelets) per person.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(1) inserted (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 3(12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(3) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/870 of 5 June 2015 amending, as regards the trade in species of wild fauna and flora, Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(3a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(4)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 100/2008 of 4 February 2008 amending, as regards sample collections and certain formalities relating to the trade in species of wild fauna and flora, Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/870 of 5 June 2015 amending, as regards the trade in species of wild fauna and flora, Regulation (EC) No 865/2006 laying down detailed rules concerning the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 338/97."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Art. 57 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 8(57)(a)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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