The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Dispatch of live animals

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

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph (1), the Welsh Ministers may authorise the dispatch of biungulate animals originating outside the restricted area if the animals travelled through that area on main roads and railway lines.

(3) The Welsh 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 bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals, the health certificate accompanying the animals bears the following words—

• “Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2007/552/EEC of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”; and

(b) in the case of any other biungulates, the health certificate accompanying the animals bears the following words—

• “Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2007/552/EEC of 6 August 2007 concerning interim protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.