Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Part VII Health Threats in Other Countries

Serious threats to health in other countries

35.—(1) This regulation shall apply where the Department learns of or has reasonable grounds to suspect, either under the procedures set out in Article 9 of Directive 89/662 or Article 19 of Directive 90/675 or Article 10 of Directive 90/425 or through any other means, the presence in any country outside the United Kingdom of a zoonosis or of a disease referred to in Directive 82/894 or of any other disease or cause liable to constitute a serious hazard to public or animal health.

(2) In the circumstances described in paragraph (1), the Department may, for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spread into or within Northern Ireland, of any zoonosis, disease or anything else mentioned in that paragraph, by a declaration to be published in such a manner as it thinks fit, give notice of the existence thereof in another country, the area subject to the outbreak and the type of products of animal origin affected.

(3) A declaration made under paragraph (2) may specify conditions under which the product which is the subject of the declaration may be imported.

(4) Upon the making of a declaration under paragraph (2) any imported product of animal origin which is the subject of the declaration shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be in breach of the animal or public health conditions of legislation relating to the import of the product unless it complies with the conditions specified in the declaration.