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Division Instructions and explanations

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

Subject to point 5, upon expiration, this document must be returned to the issuing management authority.

The holder or his authorised representative shall surrender the original of this certificate (form 1) — and, where applicable, the travelling exhibition certificate issued F1outside Great Britain — for verification purposes and submit the accompanying continuation sheet or (where the certificate is issued on the basis of an equivalent certificate issued outside Great Britain) the two continuation sheets and copies thereof to a customs office designated in accordance with Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 338/97. The customs office shall, after completing the continuation sheet or sheets, return the original of this certificate (form 1), the original certificate issued F2outside Great Britain (where applicable) — and the continuation sheet or sheets — to the holder or to his authorised representative and forward an endorsed copy of the continuation sheet of the certificate issued by Great Britain’s management authority to the relevant management authority in accordance with Article 45 of Regulation (EC) No 865/2006.

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  14. 14Use the codes below to indicate the source. This certificate may not be used for specimens with source code W, R, F or U unless they were acquired in, or were introduced into, a Member State before the provisions relating to species listed in Appendices I, II or III to the Convention or Annex C to Regulation (EEC) No 3626/82 or Annexes A, B and C to Regulation (EC) No 338/97 (pre-exit) became applicable to them , were acquired in, or were introduced into, the United Kingdom before IP completion day and the code O is also used.
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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Annex 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 9(7)(b)(vi)(aa)

F2

Words in Annex 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 9(7)(b)(vi)(bb)

Notes on Annex III

Textual amendments

F1

Annex 3 form heading: words “European Union” 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), 9(7)(a)(i)

F2

Annex 3 form box 13: words “GB Annex” substituted for words “EU Annex” (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 9(7)(a)(ii)

F3

Annex 3 form box 18: words “Great Britain” substituted for words “a Member State of the Union” (31.12.2020) by The Environment and Wildlife (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1395), regs. 1(2), 9(7)(a)(iii)

F4

Annex 3 form box 3: words “and applicant (name, permanent address and country of registration) where the form is completed by an applicant on an owner’s behalf” inserted after word “registration)” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(a)(i)

F5

Annex 3 form box 3: words “or of applicant where the form is completed by an applicant on the owner’s behalf” inserted after words after “signature of owner” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(a)(ii)

F6

Annex 3 form box 3: words “and applicant (name, permanent address and country of registration) where the form is completed by an applicant on an owner’s behalf” inserted after word “registration)” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(c)(i)

F7

Annex 3 form box 3: words “or of applicant where the form is completed by an applicant on the owner’s behalf” inserted after words “signature of owner” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(c)(ii)

F8

Words in Annex 3 form box 3: words “and applicant (name, permanent address and country of registration) where the form is completed by an applicant on an owner’s behalf” inserted after word “registration)” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(d)(i)

F9

Annex 3 form box 3: words “or of applicant where the form is completed by an applicant on the owner’s behalf” inserted after words “signature of owner” (23.6.2026) by The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Amendment and Revocation) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/627), regs. 1(2), 4(3)(d)(ii)