The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

PART 7 Products Intended for Warehouses, Ships’ Stores or Cross-Border Means of Sea Transport

Application of Part 7

44.  This Part applies to products whose destination establishment is—

(a) a warehouse in a free zone, a free warehouse or a customs warehouse, located in the customs territory of the Community;

(b) a ships’ store complying with Article 13 of Directive 97/78/EC located outside the United Kingdom; or

(c) a cross-border means of sea transport.

Additional information to be given in advance

45.—(1) No person shall bring a product to which this Part applies into Northern Ireland, or present such a product to a border inspection post of destination in Northern Ireland, unless the official veterinary surgeon to whom notice of the product’s introduction or presentation is given under to regulation 17 has been informed—

(a) whether the product is intended ultimately for import;

(b) if not, whether it is a transit product; or a product whose destination establishment is a cross-border means of sea transport; and

(c) in any event whether the product complies with the import conditions.

(2) The information in paragraph (1) shall be given in writing and may be included in the notice of the product’s introduction or presentation given under to regulation 17.

Physical check of non-conforming products

46.  Where the required documents indicate that a product to which this Part applies is a non-conforming product, any person required by regulation 18 to present it, or ensure that it is presented, to the official veterinary surgeon at a border inspection post need only permit the official veterinary surgeon, or an assistant appointed under regulation 6(1)(b) or 6(2)(b), to carry out a physical check on the product if the official veterinary surgeon considers that it present a risk to animal or public health.

Exclusion of non-conforming products from warehouses

47.  No person shall bring a non-conforming product into a warehouse in a free zone, a free warehouse or a customs warehouse in Northern Ireland.

Direct movement to cross border means of sea transport

48.  No person shall move a product whose destination establishment is a cross-border means of sea transport from the border inspection post at which it was brought in other than directly and without delay to that cross-border means of sea transport.

Additional certificate to accompany products on board means of sea transport

49.—(1) The person responsible for a product or a consignment of products whose destination establishment is a cross-border means of sea transport, and any carrier who has charge of such a product or consignment for the time being, shall ensure that the certificate referred to in Article 13(2)(a) of Directive 97/78/EC, which shall be based on the model in the Annex to Commission Decision 2000/571/EC(1), accompanies the product or consignment from the border inspection post from which it is dispatched until it is delivered on board the means of sea transport.

(2) On delivery of the product or consignment on board the means of sea transport, the master of that means of sea transport, or official representative of the master, shall confirm delivery of the product or consignment by countersigning the certificate referred to in paragraph (1) and returning it as soon as reasonably practicable to the official veterinary surgeon at the border inspection post from which the product or consignment was dispatched (as indicated in the certificate).

(3) The requirements of this regulation apply in addition to the requirements of regulation 20(1) (relating to the common veterinary entry document).

(1)

O.J. No.L240, 23.9.2000 p.14