{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-625/article-126",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-625/article-126.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2017/625",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2017 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products, amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1069/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 1151/2012, (EU) No 652/2014, (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2016/2031 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Regulations (EC) No 1/2005 and (EC) No 1099/2009 and Council Directives 98/58/EC, 1999/74/EC, 2007/43/EC, 2008/119/EC and 2008/120/EC, and repealing Regulations (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Council Directives 89/608/EEC, 89/662/EEC, 90/425/EEC, 91/496/EEC, 96/23/EC, 96/93/EC and 97/78/EC and Council Decision 92/438/EEC (Official Controls Regulation) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2017-625",
  "path": "article/126",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "126",
  "heading": "Establishment of additional conditions for entry into Great Britain of animals and goods",
  "text": "1. The appropriate authority may make regulations to supplement this Regulation concerning the conditions to be respected by animals and goods entering Great Britain from third countries which are necessary to ensure that the animals and goods comply with the relevant requirements established by the rules referred to in Article 1(2) ... or with requirements recognised to be at least equivalent thereto.\n2. The conditions laid down in the regulations referred to in paragraph 1 shall identify animals and goods by referring to their codes from the classification system applicable in the United Kingdom, as amended from time to time, whether established and maintained pursuant to section 8(1) of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 or under any other enactment and may include:\n(a) the requirement that certain animals and goods shall only enter Great Britain from a third country or region of a third country which appears on a list drawn up by the appropriate authority for that purpose;\n(b) the requirement that consignments of certain animals and goods from third countries be dispatched from, and obtained or prepared in, establishments which comply with the relevant requirements referred to in paragraph 1 or with requirements recognised to be at least equivalent thereto;\n(c) the requirement that consignments of certain animals and goods be accompanied by an official certificate, an official attestation, or by any other evidence that the consignments comply with the relevant requirements referred to in paragraph 1 or with requirements recognised to be at least equivalent thereto, including the results of the analysis performed by an accredited laboratory;\n(d) the obligation to provide the evidence referred to in point (c) in accordance with a specific format;\n(e) any other requirement necessary to ensure that certain animals and goods offer a level of protection of health and, as regards GMOs, also of the environment, equivalent to that ensured by the requirements referred to in paragraph 1.\n3. The appropriate authority may make regulations laying down rules on the format, type and content of official certificates and official attestations, including in respect of any conditions which they are to include, as well as on the evidence required in accordance with the rules provided for in point (c) of paragraph 2 of this Article. Those regulations may also make provision for the appropriate authority from time to time to specify and publish online the content and format of those official certificates, official attestations or evidence, including conditions of entry in the case of certificates.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(a)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(a)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(1) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 28(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 126(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(b)(i)(aa) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(b)(i)(bb) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(b)(ii)(aa) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(2)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(b)(ii)(bb) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(c)(i) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(3) substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 28(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(4)(c)(ii) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126(3) substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 28(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Words in Art. 126 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 22(3) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Art. 126 modified (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481), regs. 1, 47"
    }
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  "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."
}