The Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Poultry) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Restrictions on the movement of wild game bird products N.I.

12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a person shall not move any wild game bird product intended for human consumption from a protection, surveillance or restricted zone to an unrestricted area, in [F1 a] member State or third country.

(2) The Department may licence the following movements—

(a) meat products, from wild game birds originating in a protection, surveillance or restricted zone, which have been heated to a minimum temperature of 70°C throughout;

(b) fresh meat, from wild game birds originating outside the protection, surveillance and restricted zones, which has been—

(i) produced in accordance with Section IV of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin(1) (“Regulation (EC) No 853/2004”), and

(ii) subjected to the official controls set out in [F2 Article 18 of Regulation EU 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products] ;

(c) processed fresh meat and products containing such meat, from wild game birds originating outside the protection, surveillance and restricted zones, produced in accordance with Sections V and VI of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(d) fresh meat and meat products, from wild game birds originating in a protection, surveillance or restricted zone, to an unrestricted area in Northern Ireland which have been—

(i) marked in accordance with regulation 13, and

(ii) obtained, cut and stored separately from other such products.

(3) A person moving a wild game bird product referred to in paragraph (2)(d) must ensure that it does not come into contact with any other such product.

(4) Any wild game bird product which comes into contact with a wild game bird product moved under paragraph (2)(d) is subject to the measures applicable to such products under paragraphs (2)(d) and (3).

(5) In this regulation—

(a) “processed fresh meat” means any of the following—

(i) minced meat, being boned meat which has been minced into fragments and contains less than 1% salt,

(ii) meat preparation, being fresh meat, including meat that has been reduced to fragments, which has had foodstuffs, seasonings or additives added to it or which has undergone processes insufficient to modify the internal muscle fibre structure of the meat and thus to eliminate the characteristics of fresh meat,

(iii) mechanically separated meat, being the product obtained by removing meat from flesh-bearing bones after boning, using means resulting in the loss or modification of the muscle fibre structure;

(b) “wild game bird product” means any wild game bird carcase, egg or any other thing originating or made (whether in whole or in part) from a wild game bird or from a wild game bird carcase and includes bird by-products from wild birds.

Textual Amendments

F1 Word in reg. 12(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/111), regs. 1(1), 9(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Words in reg. 12(2)(b)(ii) substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/227), regs. 1, 17

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 12 in operation at 24.3.2007, see reg. 1

(1)

O.J. No. L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55, as last amended by O.J. No. L 320, 18.11.2006, p. 1