Article 1
1.
Pelts and other goods referred to in Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91 shall only be authorized to be assigned to a customs procedure other than F1a transit procedure which is intended to convey them outside the F2United Kingdom, when they are from animals:
(a)
that were caught in F3an approved country or the United Kingdom; or
F4(b)
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(c)
that were born and bred in captivity.
2.
For the purpose of paragraph 1, the importer or his authorized representative F5must, on the importation of goods into the United Kingdom, present to the border customs office a certificate which has been issued by a competent authority of the exporting or re-exporting country.
F63.
In this Article, “an approved country”, in relation to the pelts of any species (and goods incorporating such pelts) means a country listed in the Annex to Council Decision 97/602/EC concerning the list referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 3(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3254/91 and in Article 1(1)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 35/97.