{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251/annex-III",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251/annex-III.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/1251",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 of 12 December 2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-1251",
  "path": "annex/III",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "III",
  "heading": "List of third countries, territories, zones or compartments",
  "text": "Apply to all fish species.\nApply only to Cyprinidae .\nApply not to fish species susceptible to or vector species for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia according to Annex 1A\nApply only to fish species susceptible to or vector species for viral haemorrhagic septicaemia according to Part II of Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC.\nProvisional code that does not prejudice in any way the definitive denomination for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of the negotiations currently taking place on this subject at the United Nations.\nApply only to imports of ornamental fish which are not of susceptible species to any of the diseases listed in Annex 1A, and ornamental molluscs and ornamental crustaceans, intended for closed ornamental facilities.\nFor the purposes of this Regulation United States includes Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands.\nCountry/territory\n...\n...\nISO-code\nName\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\nAU\nAustralia\n...\nBR\nBrazil\n...\nCA\nCanada\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\nCL\nChile\n...\n...\nCN\nChina\n...\n...\nCO\nColombia\n...\n...\nCG\nCongo\n...\n...\nCK\nCook Islands\n...\n...\n...\n...\nHK\nHong Kong\n...\n...\nID\nIndonesia\n...\n...\nIL\nIsrael\n...\n...\nJM\nJamaica\n...\n...\nJP\nJapan\n...\n...\nKI\nKiribati\n...\n...\n...\n...\nLK\nSri Lanka\n...\n...\nMH\nMarshall Islands\n...\n...\n...\n...\nMK\nthe former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia\n...\n...\nMY\nMalaysia\n...\n...\nNR\nNauru\n...\n...\n...\n...\nNU\nNiue\n...\n...\n...\n...\nNZ\nNew Zealand\n...\n...\nPF\nFrench Polynesia\n...\n...\n...\n...\nPG\nPapua New Guinea\n...\n...\n...\n...\nPN\nPitcairn Islands\n...\n...\n...\n...\nPW\nPalau\n...\n...\n...\n...\nRU\nRussia\n...\n...\nSB\nSolomon Islands\n...\n...\n...\n...\nSG\nSingapore\n...\n...\nZA\nSouth Africa\n...\n...\nTW\nTaiwan\n...\n...\nTH\nThailand\n...\n...\nTR\nTurkey\n...\n...\nTK\nTokelau\n...\n...\nTO\nTonga\n...\n...\n...\n...\nTV\nTuvalu\n...\n...\n...\n...\nUS\nUnited States\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\n...\nWF\nWallis and Futuna\n...\n...\n...\n...\nWS\nSamoa\n...\n...\n...\n...\nCH\nSwitzerland\n...\n...\nLI\nLiechtenstein\n...\n...\nFO\nFaroe Islands\n...\n...\n...\n...\nEU, NO, IS\nEU member States, Norway and Iceland\n...\n...\n...\n...",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1012/2012 of 5 November 2012 amending Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 and Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 as regards the list of vector species, the health requirements and the certification requirements concerning epizootic ulcerative syndrome and as regards the entry for Thailand in the list of third countries from which imports of certain fish and fishery products into the Union are permitted (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 table Notes substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(25)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 table omitted (15.8.2022) by virtue of The Aquatic Animal Health (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/835), regs. 1(2), 2(11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 25/2014 of 13 January 2014 amending Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 as regards the entry for Canada in the list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which certain aquatic animals may be imported into the Union (Text with EEA relevance)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Deleted by Commission Regulation (EU) No 519/2013 of 21 February 2013 adapting certain regulations and decisions in the fields of free movement of goods, freedom of movement for persons, right of establishment and freedom to provide services, company law, competition policy, agriculture, food safety, veterinary and phytosanitary policy, fisheries, transport policy, energy, taxation, statistics, social policy and employment, environment, customs union, external relations, and foreign, security and defence policy, by reason of the accession of Croatia."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Annex 3 table inserted (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 5(25)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Annex 3: power to amend conferred (31.12.2020) by The Aquatic Animal Health and Plant Health (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/817), regs. 1, 7 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1463, regs. 1(2)(a), 5(7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "According to Article 11 ornamental fish which are not of species susceptible to any of the diseases listed in Part II of Annex IV to Directive 2006/88/EC, and ornamental molluscs and ornamental crustaceans, intended for closed ornamental facilities, may also be imported into the Union from third countries or territories that are members of the World Organisation for Animal health (OIE)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Provisional code that does not prejudice in any way the definitive denomination for this country, which will be agreed following the conclusion of the negotiations currently taking place on this subject at the United Nations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "For the purposes of this Regulation United States includes Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and Northern Mariana Islands."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/1251/annex/III",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:48.752272+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."
}