The International Carriage of Perishable Foodstuffs Regulations 1985

Recognition of documents and plates

21.  The following documents or plates shall, during the period for which they are in force, or in the case of document or plate which has not been issued for a period, during the period from the date of its issue until the third anniversary of that date or the earlier cancellation of the document or plate, be recognised as certificates of compliance or certification plates pursuant to section 3(3) of the 1976 Act:—

(a) a certificate or plate issued by the competent authority of a Contracting Party to ATP other than the United Kingdom, or a Member State of the European Economic Community;

(b) a certificate or plate issued by the competent authority of a State with which Her Majesty's Government has made an agreement or arrangement for the mutual recognition of such certificates or plates;

(c) a certificate issued, before the 1st October 1979, by the Shipowners Refrigerated Cargo Research Association in respect of insulated, refrigerated, mechanically refrigerated, or heated transport equipment used for the international carriage of perishable foodstuffs by land;

(d) a certificate issued, before the 1st October 1979, by Lloyd's Register of Shipping in respect of transport equipment consisting of an insulated, refrigerated, mechanically refrigerated or heated container;

(e) a certificate or plate issued at any time in respect of transport equipment by any of the following organisations—

(i) Transfrigoroute Europe,

(ii) Interfrigo, and

(iii) Transfesa;

(f) a copy of a certificate or duplicate of a plate issued by any authority or body referred to in sub-paragraphs (a) to (e) (inclusive) above and certified by that authority or body as a copy or duplicate of a certificate or plate issued by it.