Article 7Hides and skins
1.Cyprus shall not dispatch hides and skins of bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates (hides and skins) from the areas listed in Annex I.
2.The prohibition set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply to hides and skins which:
(a)were produced in Cyprus before 15 September 2007; or
(b)comply with the requirements provided for in point (2)(c) or (d) of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002; or
(c)were produced outside the areas listed in Annex I in accordance with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, and have since introduction into Cyprus been stored and transported separately from hides and skins not eligible for dispatch in accordance with paragraph 1.
Treated hides and skins shall be separated from untreated hides and skins.
3.Cyprus shall ensure that hides and skins to be dispatched to other Member States shall be accompanied by an official certificate which bears the following words:
‘Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision 2007/718/EC of 6 November 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in Cyprus’.
4.By way of derogation from paragraph 3 it shall be sufficient, in the case of hides and skins which comply with the requirements of points (1)(b) to (e) of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, to be accompanied by a commercial document stating compliance with those requirements.
5.By way of derogation from paragraph 3 it shall be sufficient, in the case of hides and skins which comply with the requirements of point (2)(c) or (d) Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002, that compliance with those requirements is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with Article 9(1).