The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

Movement of transit products

42.—(1) No person may remove, or cause to be removed, a transit product from the border inspection post of entry unless the person responsible for the product has given a written undertaking to the official veterinary surgeon there to observe and perform the requirements of regulation 43.

(2) Where, at any time after removal from a border inspection post of entry, a transit product is transported through Scotland by road, rail, waterway or air–

(a) the person responsible for the transit product and any carrier who has charge of it for the time being must ensure that it is conveyed in a vehicle or container sealed by the Commissioners or by the veterinary authorities responsible for the border inspection post of entry, accompanied by its required documents, any translations required under regulation 18(4) and its common veterinary entry document, to the border inspection post of exit under the supervision of the Commissioners in accordance with the external transit procedure referred to in Articles 91 to 97 of the Customs Code;

(b) no person may–

(i) break the seals on the vehicle or container in which the transit product is conveyed;

(ii) unload the transit product;

(iii) split the consignment or part consignment which includes the transit product; or

(iv) subject the transit product to any form of handling; and

(c) the person responsible for the transit product and any carrier who has charge of it for the time being must ensure that it leaves the customs territory of the Community at the border inspection post of exit not more than 30 days after removal from the border inspection post of entry (excluding the day of removal).

(3) No person may bring a transit product into a free zone, a free warehouse or a customs warehouse in Scotland.