The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002

Exemptions

3.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to products introduced into Scotland from a third country with the previous written authorisation of the Scottish Ministers or the Agency, as trade samples, for exhibition or for particular studies or analyses.

(2) Part III, with the exception of regulations 15, 21 and 25, and Parts IV to IX, do not apply to any product the total weight of which does not exceed one kilogram and which is introduced into Scotland–

(a) in the personal luggage of a traveller and intended for that person’s own consumption; or

(b) by post or carrier and addressed to a private individual in the relevant territories otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample,

where such products either come from a third country or part of a third country which satisfies the conditions laid down in paragraph (3) or have undergone heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of 3,00 or more.

(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (2) 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.