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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-625/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-625/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2019/625",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625 of 4 March 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to requirements for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain animals and goods intended for human consumption (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-625",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Additional requirements for entry into Great Britain of certain animals and goods from a third country or region thereof",
  "text": "In addition to the requirements laid down in Article 127(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, the appropriate authority shall only decide on the inclusion of third countries or regions thereof in the list referred to in Article 126(2)(a) of that Regulation if the following requirements are recognised by the appropriate authority as being at least equivalent to the relevant requirements in the relevant constituent territory of Great Britain for animals and goods referred to in Article 3:\n(a)the legislation of the third country on:\n(i)the production of food of animal origin;\n(ii)the use of veterinary medicinal products, including rules on their prohibition or authorisation, their distribution, their placing on the market and the rules covering administration and inspection;\n(iii)the preparation and use of feed, including the procedures for using additives and the preparation and use of medicated feedingstuffs, as well as the hygiene quality of the raw materials used for preparing feedingstuffs and of the final product;\n(b)the hygiene conditions of production, manufacture, handling, storage and dispatch currently applied to products of animal origin destined for Great Britain;\n(c)any experience of marketing of the products of animal origin from the third country and the results of any official controls on entry into Great Britain;\n(d)when available, the results of controls carried out by experts appointed by the appropriate authority in the third country related to other animals and goods for which the third country is already listed in accordance with Article 127(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, in particular the results of the assessment of the competent authorities in the third country audited, and the action that the competent authorities have taken in the light of any recommendations addressed to them following such audits by the appropriate authority;\n(e)the existence, implementation and communication of a zoonoses control programme approved by the appropriate authority when applicable;\n(f)the existence, implementation and communication of a residues control programme approved by the appropriate authority when applicable....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(b)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(b)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(b) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(c) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(c) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(d) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(d) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(e)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(d) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(e)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(e) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(f) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(f) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(g)(i) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(f) omitted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(g)(ii) (with regs. 33-36)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4 heading substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1631), regs. 1(2), 14(6)(a) (with regs. 33-36)"
    }
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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