Checking consignments of live animals at border inspection posts: fees
10.—(1) The fees specified in this regulation and Schedule 6 are payable where inspections are carried out at border inspection posts of consignments of live animals from a third country in accordance with regulation 15 (procedure on importation) of the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011(1).
(2) The fees payable in respect of the inspection of a consignment of live animals specified in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 6 are specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that Table.
(3) Paragraph (4) applies where the inspection of any live animal at a border inspection post is undertaken (whether in whole or in part)—
(a)during a weekend;
(b)after 17:00 hours but before 08:30 hours on a weekday; or
(c)during a public holiday.
(4) Where this paragraph applies, a fee of £80 is payable for every load subject to inspection (in addition to any fee payable under Schedule 6).
(5) In this regulation and Schedule 6—
(a)“border inspection post” (“arolygfa ffin”) means a port or airport approved as such by the European Commission(2);
(b)“consignment” (“llwyth”) means a quantity of animals of the same species, covered by the same veterinary certificate or document;
(c)“load” (“cyflenwad”) means one or more consignments of animals from the same country of origin that have arrived on the same means of transport and presented by a person responsible for their importation for checking at the border inspection post at the same time;
(d)“public holiday” (“gŵyl gyhoeddus”) means Christmas Day, Good Friday or a bank holiday in Wales under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(3); and
(e)“third country” (“trydedd wlad”) means a country other than a member State.
The European Commission periodically publishes lists of border inspection posts. The list of approved border inspection posts is laid down in Commission Decision 2009/821/EC (OJ No. L 296, 12.11.2009, p.1) as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision 2012/762/EU (OJ No. L 336, 8.12.2012, p.94).
1971 c.80. There are amendments to this Act which are not relevant to these Regulations.