Export of hides and skins
11.—(1) No person may export hides or skins of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates produced in or brought into Great Britain.
(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to hides and skins that—
(a)were produced before 15 July 2007;
(b)conform to the requirements of point (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption(1); or
(c)were produced outside Great Britain in accordance with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 and since introduction into the United Kingdom have been transported separately from hides or skins from Great Britain not eligible for export,
provided that treated hides or skins are separated from untreated hides and skins.
(3) Hides or skins exported to another member State must be accompanied by an official certificate which bears the following words:—
“Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 on certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.
(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to hides or skins which conform to the requirements of either—
(a)points (b) to (e) or paragraph 1 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002; or
(b)points (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002,
if compliance with those conditions is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed (in the case of sub-paragraph (b)) in accordance with regulation 144.
OJ No. L273, 10.10.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 829/2007.