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

Notification of certain establishments which supply or store products of animal origin

11.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), this regulation shall apply to any establishment which is not already registered or approved under or pursuant to any Community legislation referred to in paragraphs 1 to 14 of Schedule 3, under the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993, under Regulation 1274/91 or under the Medicines Act 1968 and which—

(a) supplies for export or consignment for export to a Member State, or

(b) acts as an intermediate storage facility for,

any product of animal origin covered by Directive 92/118.

(2) This regulation shall not apply in the case of any establishment registered under regulation 10.

(3) Any person with control of an establishment to which this regulation applies shall notify the Department of the name and address of the establishment.

(4) The occupier of an establishment to which this regulation applies shall notify the Department of the name and address of the establishment and shall give to it such assurances as to the compliance with these Regulations as the Department may require.

(5) The Department shall keep a register for the purposes of paragraph (3) of any notifications received by virtue of paragraph (3) or (4).

(6) Any person who has given a notice to the Department in relation to any establishment in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4) shall keep a record of all deliveries to that establishment of products of animal origin covered by Directive 92/118 and, where a consignment is divided up or subsequently marketed, of the subsequent destination of the products of animal origin and shall keep such records for 12 months from the arrival of the consignment to which they relate.