CHAPTER I

SUBJECT MATTER, SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS

Subject matter and scope
Article 1
1
This Regulation lays down the veterinary certification requirements for the introduction into
Great Britain
of consignments containing the following live animals or fresh meat:
a
ungulates;
b. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
c
fresh meat intended for human consumption, excluding meat preparations, of ungulates and equidae.
2
This Regulation lays down the lists of third countries,
and makes provision for the specification for the purposes of this Regulation by the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales), of territories or parts thereof,
from which the consignments referred to in paragraph 1 may be introduced into
Great Britain
.
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
4
This Regulation shall apply without prejudice to any specific certification requirements laid down in other
assimilated
law or in agreements concluded by the United Kingdom
with third countries.

Definitions
Article 2
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
1. ‘ungulates’ means ungulates as defined in Article 2(d) of Directive 2004/68/EC;
2. ‘fresh meat’ means fresh meat as defined in point 1.10 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;
3. ‘equidae’ means equidae as defined in Article 2(b) of Council Directive
2009/156/EC
;
4. ‘holding’ means a farm or other officially supervised agricultural, industrial or commercial undertaking, including zoos, amusement parks and wildlife or hunting reserves where live animals are regularly kept or bred.
5. ‘appropriate authority’ means the Secretary of State (in relation to England), the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales) and the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland); but the ‘appropriate authority’ is the Secretary of State if consent is given by:
  1. in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
  2. in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
6. ‘approved body, institute or centre’ means any permanent, geographically limited establishment, where one or more species of animal are habitually kept or bred, whether or not for commercial ends, for one or more of the following purposes:
  1. display of the animals and education of the public;
  2. conservation of the species;
  3. basic or applied scientific research or breeding of animals for the purposes of such research,
and where the establishment concerned is approved by, or registered with, the competent authority (in relation to a third country) or the appropriate authority (in relation to Great Britain);
7. ‘competent authority’ means the central authority of the country of destination or transit competent to carry out veterinary checks, or any authority to which that central authority has delegated that competence;
8. ‘third country’ means any country or territory other than the British Islands.
9. “
specific condition
” has the meaning given in Article 2c;
10. “supplementary guarantee”—
  1. in relation to ungulates, means the guarantee given under paragraph 2 of Article 2d;
  2. in relation to fresh meat, means the guarantee given under paragraph 2 of Article 13b.

Publication of code representing country or part thereof
Article 2a
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 system of words, letters or numbers representing, for the purposes of a veterinary certificate under this Regulation, a third country listed in Annex 1 or Annex 2, or a territory or part thereof.

Publication of closing date and opening date
Article 2b
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 2, or a territory or part thereof.
2.
Meat from animals slaughtered on or before a closing date may be imported into Great Britain from the country or territory to which the closing date relates for 90 days from that date. Consignments carried on vessels on the high seas may be imported into Great Britain from the country or territory to which the closing date relates if certified before the closing date for 40 days from that date.
3.
Where an opening date has been specified in relation to a third country or territory or part thereof under paragraph 1, only meat slaughtered on or after that opening date may be imported into Great Britain from that country or part.

Specific conditions – live ungulates and fresh meat
Article 2c
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 impose a specific condition on the introduction of an ungulate into Great Britain, or on the importation of fresh meat of an ungulate intended for human consumption into Great Britain.
2.
The Secretary of State must publish any specific condition required under this Article in a document published for the purposes of this Article.
3.
“
Specific condition
” means one of the conditions published under paragraph 2 by the Secretary of State, imposed with the consent of the Scottish Ministers (in relation to Scotland) and the Welsh Ministers (in relation to Wales).

Supplementary guarantees – live ungulates
Article 2d
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 impose conditions relating to the protection of public health, animal health or food safety in Great Britain on the import of an ungulate into Great Britain from a third country listed in column 1 of Annex 1, or a territory or part thereof.
2.
The person exporting the ungulate from the third country to Great Britain, or another person acting on their behalf, must provide evidence that any condition imposed under paragraph 1 in relation to the ungulate is satisfied by giving a supplementary guarantee in accordance with the veterinary certificate for the ungulate concerned.
3.
The Secretary of State must publish any conditions imposed under paragraph 1 in a document published for the purposes of this Article.
Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 of 12 March 2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Official Journal of the European Union L 73 of 20 March 2010).
Deleted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 780/2013 of 14 August 2013 amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 206/2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements (Text with EEA relevance).
Words in Art. 1(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), 56(2)(a)(i) (with regs. 69-71)
Art. 1(1)(b) 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), 56(2)(a)(ii) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 1(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), 56(2)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Words in Art. 1(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), 56(2)(c) (with regs. 69-71)
Word in Art. 2(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), 56(3)(a) (with regs. 69-71)
Arts. 2(e)-(h) inserted (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), 56(3)(b) (with regs. 69-71)
Arts. 2a-2d 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), 5(4)
Words in Art. 1(2) 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), 5(2)
Art. 2(i)(j) 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), 5(3)
Art. 2c(3) substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 35(2)
Word in Art. 1(4) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 90