The Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3.—(1) In regulation 1(2) of the principal Regulations,

(a) for the term “Decision 95/357” there shall be substituted the following—

““Decision 97/778” means Commission Decision 97/778/EC drawing up a list of border inspection posts agreed for veterinary checks on products and animals from third countries, laying down detailed rules concerning the checks to be carried out by the veterinary experts of the Commission and repealing Decision 96/742/EC(1), as read in accordance with Schedule 1;”;

(b) after the definition of the term “Decision 97/778” there shall be inserted the following—

““Directive 71/118” means Council Directive 71/118/EEC on health problems affecting trade in fresh poultry meat(2), as read in accordance with Schedule 1;

“Directive 72/462” means Council Directive 72/462/EEC on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat from third countries(3), as read in accordance with Schedule 1;”;

(c) after the definition of the term “Directive 90/675” there shall be inserted the following—

““Directive 91/493” means Council Directive 91/493/EEC laying down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of fishery products(4), as read in accordance with Schedule 1;

“Directive 92/45” means Council Directive 92/45/EEC on public health and animal health problems relating to the killing of wild game and the placing on the market of wild game meat(5), as read in accordance with Schedule 1;”; and

(d) after the definition of “local authority” there shall be inserted the following—

““the New Zealand Equivalence Agreement” means the Agreement and Annexes attached to Council Decision 97/132/EC(6) on the conclusion of the Agreement between the European Community and New Zealand on sanitary measures applicable to trade in live animals and animal products;”.

(2) For the term “Decision 95/357” in—

(a) the definition of “border inspection post” in regulation 1(2) of, and

(b) in regulation 20(2) of,

the principal Regulations, there shall be substituted the term “Decision 97/778”.

(1)

OJ No. L315, 19.11.97, p.15.

(2)

OJ No. L55, 8.3.71, p.23.

(3)

OJ No. L302, 31.12.72, p.28.

(4)

OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p.15.

(5)

OJ No. L268, 14.9.92, p.35.

(6)

OJ No. L57, 26.2.97, p.4, articles 10 and 11 of which are applied on a provisional basis by the exchange of letters attached to Council Decision 97/131/EC (OJ No. L57, 26.2.97, p.1).