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). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Art. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2Words in Art. 1(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Words in Art. 1(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(iii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1590, regs. 1(1)(b)(i), 4(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F4Art. 1(1)(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(2)(a)(iv); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Words in Art. 1(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Leghold Trap and Pelt Imports (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/16), regs. 1, 3(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)