CHAPTER II

GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR IMPORTS AND TRANSIT

... Third countries, territories, zones or compartments of origin from which commodities may be imported into and transit through Great Britain
Article 3
The commodities shall only be imported into and transit through Great Britain from such of the third countries listed in column 1 of the table in Part 1 of Annex I or a territory, zone or compartment of those third countries as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article.

Veterinary certification
Article 4
1
Commodities imported into Great Britain shall be accompanied by a veterinary certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, for the commodity concerned, completed in accordance with any notes in relation to that certificate.
2
A declaration by the master of the ship, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, shall be attached to veterinary certificates for imports of poultry and day-old chicks, where the transport of those commodities includes transport by ship, even for part of the journey.
3
Poultry, hatching eggs and day-old chicks transiting through Great Britain shall be accompanied by:
a
a veterinary certificate as referred to in paragraph 1 which shall bear the words ‘for transit through Great Britain’, and
b
a certificate required by the third country of destination.
4
Specified pathogen-free eggs, meat, minced meat and mechanically separated meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products transiting through Great Britain shall be accompanied by a certificate drawn up in accordance with the model certificate , in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time, and complying with the conditions set out therein.
5
For the purposes of this Regulation, transit may include storage during transit in accordance with Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2124.
6
Electronic certification and other agreed systems ... may be used.

Publication of closing dates and opening dates
Article 4a
1.
The Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article a closing date or an opening date in relation to a third country listed in Annex 1 or a territory, zone or compartment of any such third country.
2.
Commodities produced on or before a closing date, including those transported on the high seas, may not be imported into Great Britain from the third country, territory, zone or compartment to which the closing date relates after 90 days from that date.
3.
Where an opening date has been specified in relation to a third country, territory zone or compartment under paragraph 1, only commodities produced after that opening date may be imported into Great Britain from that country, territory, zone or compartment.

Conditions for imports and transit
Article 5
1
Commodities imported into and transiting through
Great Britain
shall comply with the following:
a
the conditions laid down in Articles 6 and 7 and in Chapter III;
b
any additional guarantees that the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may require from time to time;
c
such of the conditions
... as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article
, and where appropriate,
such closing dates as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify under Article 4a
and
such opening dates as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify under Article 4a
...;
d
...such conditions
in relation to the approval of a salmonella control programme and related restrictions
such as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), may specify in a document published for the purposes of this Article
;
e
the animal health additional guarantees, where required by the
appropriate authority
and referred to in the certificate.
1A.
Where the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), requires an additional guarantee under paragraph 1(b), the Secretary of State must specify the additional guarantee in a document published for the purposes of this Article.
2
The following conditions set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply to single consignments of less than 20 units of poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof:
a
point (b);
b
point (d) when destined for primary production of poultry for private domestic use or leading to the direct supply, by the producer, of small quantities of primary products as referred to in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003
to the final consumer or to local retail establishments directly supplying the primary products to the final consumer, and which are certified in accordance with model veterinary certificate LT20
.
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Examination, sampling and testing procedures
Article 6
1.
Paragraph 2 applies where examination, sampling and testing for avian influenza,
Mycoplasma
, Newcastle disease,
Salmonella
, and other pathogens of animal or public health significance is required for imports of commodities into Great Britain in accordance with the relevant certificate, in the form published by the appropriate authority from time to time.
2.
The commodities shall only be imported into Great Britain where standards and procedures that are at least equivalent to those described in Annex III have been carried out by the competent authority of the third country concerned or, where appropriate, by the relevant competent authority of Great Britain.

Disease reporting requirements
Article 7
Commodities shall only be imported into Great Britain from third countries, territories, zones or compartments, where the third country concerned:
1. informs the
appropriate authority
of the disease situation within 24 hours of confirmation of any initial outbreaks of LPAI, HPAI or Newcastle disease;
2. submits virus isolates from initial outbreaks of HPAI and Newcastle disease, without undue delay to
a laboratory which has been approved by the appropriate authority as a national reference laboratory,
for avian influenza and Newcastle disease
; such virus isolates shall not be required for imports of eggs, egg products and specified pathogen-free eggs from third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which the import of such commodities into
Great Britain
is authorised;
3. submits to the appropriate authority regular updates on the disease situation.
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey KT 153NB, United Kingdom .
Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/2258 of 4 December 2015 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 as regards imports and transit of single consignments of less than 20 units of poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof (Text with EEA relevance).
Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 411/2009 of 18 May 2009 amending Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance).
Words in Art. 3 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(4)(a) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 3 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(4)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(a) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(c)(i) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(3)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(c)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(d)(i) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(4) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(d)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(e) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 4(6) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(5)(f) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 5(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(6)(a) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 5(1)(e) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(6)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Art. 6 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(7) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 7 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(8)(a) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 7(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(8)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 7(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(8)(c)(i) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 7(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(8)(c)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 7(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 53(8)(d) (with regs. 69-71)
Art. 4a inserted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(6)
Words in Art. 3 heading omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(a)
Words in Art. 3 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(b)
Words in Art. 3 substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(c)
Words in Art. 3 inserted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(5)(d)
Art. 5(1)(b) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(i)
Words in Art. 5(1)(c) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(ii)(aa)
Words in Art. 5(1)(c) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(ii)(bb)
Words in Art. 5(1)(c) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(ii)(cc)
Words in Art. 5(1)(c) omitted (1.7.2022) by virtue of The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(ii)(dd)
Words in Art. 5(1)(d) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(iii)(aa)
Words in Art. 5(1)(d) substituted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(a)(iii)(bb)
Art. 5(1A) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(b)
Words in Art. 5(2)(b) inserted (1.7.2022) by The Import of Animals and Animal Products and Approved Countries (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/735), regs. 1(2), 3(7)(c)
Words in Art. 5(1)(c) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 34(3)(a)(i)
Words in Art. 5(1)(d) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 34(3)(a)(ii)
Art. 5(3) omitted (10.2.2025) by virtue of The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 34(3)(b)