{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2130/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2130/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/2130",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2130 of 25 November 2019 establishing detailed rules on the operations to be carried out during and after documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks on animals and goods subject to official controls at border control posts (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-2130",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Detailed rules for physical checks",
  "text": "1. During physical checks on consignments of animals and goods referred to in Article 1, the competent authority shall verify that the consignments comply with the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 applicable to the particular animals or goods and the specific requirements defined in the relevant official certificates, official attestations and other documents.\n2. Consignments shall be partially or fully unloaded from the means of transport where it is necessary to have access to the whole consignment for the purpose of physical checks.\n3. Physical checks on animals shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex I to this Regulation.\n4. Physical checks on products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products, derived products, hay and straw and composite products and on food and feed of non-animal origin subject to temporary increase of controls, other conditions of entry to Great Britain from a third country and emergency measures provided for by the acts referred to in points (d), (e) and (f) of Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex II to this Regulation.\n5. Laboratory tests to detect hazards on products of animal origin, germinal products, animal by-products, derived products, hay and straw and composite products shall be carried out in accordance with the monitoring plan referred to in point 5 of Annex II.\n6. Physical checks on plants, plant products and other objects referred to in point (c) of Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and, where applicable, subject to emergency measures provided for in the acts referred to in point (e) of Article 47(1) of that Regulation shall be carried out in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex III to this Regulation.\n7. The following consignments of animals may be placed on the market before the results of laboratory tests carried out during physical checks are available:\n(a) consignments of ungulates sampled in line with sampling requirements referred in part III of Annex I, where no immediate danger to public health or animal health is suspected from those ungulates; and\n(b) consignments of other animals referred to in point (a) of Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, where no immediate danger to public health or animal health is suspected from those animals.\n8. Consignments of goods tested pursuant to the monitoring plan referred to in paragraph 5, for which no immediate danger to public health or animal health is suspected, may be placed on the market before the laboratory test results are available.\n9. Where consignments of plants, plant products and other objects referred to in point (c) of Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 are sampled for ... analysis during physical checks and no immediate danger to plant health is suspected, such consignments may be placed on the market before the ... test results are available.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(4) 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, 37(4) (with reg. 46)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 4(9) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 50(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/2130/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:55.958532+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."
}