The Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Dispatch of meat products

5.—(1) A person shall not dispatch meat products including treated stomachs, bladders and intestines of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates (“meat products”) unless they are accompanied by an official certificate which shall bear the following words—

“Meat products (including treated stomachs, bladders and intestines) conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat products which bear the health mark in accordance with Chapter III of Section I of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific rules for the organisation of official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption(1), provided that they—

(a) are clearly identified and have been transported and stored since the date of production, separately from other meat products not eligible for dispatch outside Great Britain; and

(b) are either—

(i) made from meats described in Article 2. 4(b) of the decision; or

(ii) have undergone at least one of the relevant treatments laid down for foot-and-mouth disease in Part 1 of Annex III to Directive 2002/99/EC laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption(2),

and have been processed in an establishment operating HACCP and an auditable standard operating procedure that ensures that standards for treatment are met and recorded, provided such compliance with paragraph (2)(b)(ii) is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed in accordance with regulation 12.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat products heat treated in accordance with paragraph (2)(b)(ii) in hermetically sealed containers so as to ensure that they are shelf stable, provided that the commercial document accompanying the consignment states the heat treatment applied.

(1)

O.J. No. L139, 30.4.2004, p. 206. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L226, 25.6.2004, p. 83) and that Regulation was last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006

(2)

O.J. L18, 23.1.2003, p. 11