The Miscellaneous Products of Animal Origin (Import Conditions) Regulations 1999

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, any expression used in Directive 92/118/EEC shall have the same meaning as in that directive;

• “appropriate Minister” means, in relation to England, the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and in relation to Scotland or to Wales, the Secretary of State;

• “Directive 92/118/EEC” means Council Directive 92/118/EEC laying down animal and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/425/EEC(1);

• “frogs legs” means the back part of the body divided by a transversal cut behind the front limbs, eviscerated and skinned, of a frog of the species Rana spp. (family Ranidae) presented fresh, frozen or processed and intended for human consumption;

• “honey” means honey which is not included in the definition of apiculture products;

• “miscellaneous product of animal origin” means–

  (a)

  apiculture products;

  (b)

  snails;

  (c)

  frogs legs; and

  (d)

  honey;

• “snail” means a terrestrial gastropod of the species Helix pomatia Linne, Helix aspersa Muller, Helix lucorum and species of the family Achatinidae which is intended for human consumption.

(1)

OJ No. L62, 15.3.1993, p. 49 as amended by the Act of Accession (Austria, Finland and Sweden); Commission Decision 94/466/EC (OJ No. L190, 26.7.94, p. 26); Commission Decision 94/723/EC (OJ No. L288, 9.11.94, p. 48); Commission Decision 95/338/EC (OJ No. L200, 24.8.95, p. 35); Commission Decision 95/339/EC (OJ No. L200, 24.8.95, p. 36); Commission Decision 96/103/EC (OJ No. L24, 31.1.96, p. 28); Commission Decision 96/340/EC (OJ No. L129, 30.5.96, p. 35); Commission Decision 96/405/EC (OJ No. L165, 4.7.96, p. 40) and Council Directive 96/90/EC (OJ No. L13, 16.1.97, p. 24).