{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-206/article-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-206/article-16.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2010/206",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2010-206",
  "path": "article/16",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Transit and storage of fresh meat",
  "text": "The introduction into Great Britain of consignments of fresh meat not intended for importation into Great Britain but destined for a third country either by immediate transit or after storage in Great Britain in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2124, shall only be authorised if the consignments comply with the following conditions:\n(a)they come from such of the third countries listed in column 1 of the table in Part 1 of Annex II or territory or part of any such third country, as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article, for which there is an appropriate veterinary certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time;\n(b)they comply with the specific animal health requirements for the consignment concerned, as set out in the appropriate veterinary certificate referred to in point (a);\n(c)they are accompanied by a veterinary certificate, drawn up in accordance with the model veterinary certificate , in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, and completed and signed by an official veterinarian of the exporting third country;\n(d)they are certified as acceptable for transit, including storage as appropriate, on the common health entry document referred to in Article 2(3) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2130, signed by the official veterinarian of the border control post of introduction into Great Britain.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16 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), 56(23)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16 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), 56(23)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(a) 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), 5(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(a) 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), 5(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(a) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 5(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(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), 56(23)(b) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Art. 16(b) 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), 56(23)(c) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 16(c) 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), 56(23)(d) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Art. 16(d) 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), 56(23)(e) (with regs. 69-71)"
    },
    {
      "type": "X",
      "label": "X1",
      "text": "Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Official Journal of the European Union L 73 of 20 March 2010)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2010/206/article/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:50:53.580499+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."
}