Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Amendments to the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

2.—(1) The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(1) are amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) For regulation 3 there shall be substituted –

“Exemptions for trade samples

3.   These Regulations do not apply to products introduced into Northern Ireland from a third country with the previous written authorisation of the Department as trade samples, for exhibition or for particular studies or analyses.

Other exemptions

3A.— (1) Part III, with the exception of regulations 15, 21 and 25, and Parts IV to IX do not apply in the circumstances set out in this regulation.

(2) Meat, meat products, milk and milk products from Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Republic of Iceland, the Principality of Andorra, San Marino, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta and the Republic of Cyprus may be introduced into Northern Ireland in the personal luggage of a traveller if it is intended for his personal consumption taking into account the nature of the product and the quantity of it that could reasonably be consumed by an individual;

(3) Powdered infant milk, infant food, and special foods required for medical reasons containing meat, meat products, milk, or milk products may be introduced into Northern Ireland from a third country not specified in paragraph (2) if they –

(a) are carried in the personal luggage of a traveller and are intended for his personal use or consumption, taking into account the nature of the product and the quantity of it that could reasonably be consumed by an individual;

(b) do not require refrigeration before opening;

(c) are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer; and

(d) are contained in unbroken packaging.

(4) Products which are not covered by paragraph (2) or (3) may be introduced into Northern Ireland if they are in the personal luggage of a traveller and intended for his personal consumption or if they are sent by post or carrier and addressed to a private individual in Northern Ireland otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample and if –

(a) they are not meat, meat products, milk or milk products;

(b) their total weight does not exceed one kilogram; and

(c) they either come from a third country or part of a third country which satisfies the conditions laid down in paragraph (5) or have undergone heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of 3.00 or more.

(5) The conditions referred to in paragraph (4) are that the third country or part of a third country –

(a) appears on a list of third countries or parts of third countries from which member States shall authorise the importation of the product or products concerned, established by a Community instrument in force on the date on which these Regulations are made; and

(b) is not one from which importation of the product or products concerned is prohibited by any Community instrument in force on that date.

(6) In this regulation “meat”, “meat products”, “milk” and “milk products” mean products of those types covered by the Directives listed in Schedule 3 and “meat” includes meat preparations.”.

(3) For regulation 61(1) there shall be substituted –

“(1) The Landing of Carcases and Animal Products Order (Northern Ireland) 1985(2) and the Diseases of Animals (Importation of Bird Products) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996(3) shall not apply to products to which these Regulations apply, except the products referred to in regulation 3 and 3A.”.

(4) For Schedule 2 there shall be substituted the Schedule to these Regulations.

(1)

S.R. 2002 No. 340

(2)

S.R. 1985 No. 161

(3)

S.R. 1996 No. 81