The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2007

Dispatch of live animals

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5.—(1) No person shall dispatch any live animal of a bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate.

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph (1) of this regulation, the Scottish Ministers may authorise the direct and uninterrupted transit of a biungulate animal through the restricted area if the animal is to travelled on main roads or railway lines.

(3) The Scottish Ministers may only authorise the dispatch of the biungulate animals originating outside the restricted area to another member State if at least three days before dispatch they have notified the destination member State, and–

(a)in the case of a bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animal, the health certificate accompanying the animal bears the following words–

Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom; and

(b)in the case of any other biungulate, the health certificate accompanying the animal bears the following words–

Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.