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Article 1 Subject matter and scope

United Kingdom

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1.

This Regulation lays down:

(a)

a list of third countries F1and makes provision for the specification for the purposes of this Regulation by the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), of third countries or parts thereof from which the following commodities may be imported into, or transit through F2Great Britain:

  1. (i)

    meat of wild leporidae not containing offal, except for unskinned and uneviscerated wild leporidae;

  2. (ii)

    meat of wild land mammals other than ungulates and leporidae, not containing offal;

  3. (iii)

    meat of farmed rabbits;

(b)

the veterinary certification requirements for the commodities listed in points (i), (ii) and (iii) (the commodities).

2.

F3... For the purposes of this Regulation, transit covers storage during transit (including putting into storage, as referred to in F4Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2124).

3.

This Regulation shall apply without prejudice to:

  1. (i)

    specific certification requirements provided for in F5agreements between the United Kingdom and third countries;

  2. (ii)

    the relevant rules on certification contained within legislation implementing Regulation (EC) No 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 1 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 4(2)

F2

Words in Art. 1(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), 54(2)(a) (with regs. 69-71)

F3

Words in Art. 1(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), 54(2)(b)(i) (with regs. 69-71)

F4

Words in Art. 1(2) 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), 54(2)(b)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)

F5

Words in Art. 1(3)(i) 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), 54(2)(c) (with regs. 69-71)