The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2004

Exemptions

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

(2) The Secretary of State’s authorisation shall be in writing, may be made subject to conditions, and may be amended, suspended or revoked in writing at any time.

(3) Part 3, with the exception of regulation 25, and Parts 4 to 10 do not apply to—

(a) powdered infant milk, infant food, or special foods required for medical reasons containing meat, meat products, milk, or milk products from a third country if—

(i) they form part of a traveller’s personal luggage and are intended for his personal consumption or use;

(ii) they do not exceed in quantity that which could reasonably be consumed by an individual;

(iii) they do not require refrigeration before opening;

(iv) they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer; and

(v) their packaging is unbroken, unless they are in current use;

(b) meat, meat products, milk or milk products from the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, the Republic of Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland if—

(i) they form part of a traveller’s personal luggage, or are sent by post or carrier (otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample) and are addressed to a private individual in England;

(ii) they are intended for the personal consumption of the traveller or the addressee, as the case may be; and

(iii) their combined total weight in any traveller’s personal luggage or in any consignment sent by post or carrier to a private individual does not exceed 5 kilograms; or

(c) products in the personal luggage of a traveller if they are intended for his personal consumption or which are sent by post or carrier (otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample) and addressed to a private individual in England, if they are intended for his personal consumption, and if they—

(i) are not meat, meat products, milk or milk products;

(ii) do not exceed one kilogram in weight;

(iii) come from a third country or part of a third country from which their importation is permitted in accordance with a list drawn up by an instrument in Schedule 1; and

(iv) do not come from a third country or part of a third country from which their importation is prohibited by any instrument in Schedule 1.

(4) In this regulation “meat”, “meat products”, “milk” and “milk products” mean products of those types listed in sections 01–04 under the heading I.2, Title I in the Annex to Commission Decision 2002/349/EC.