Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 495/2013 of 29 May 2013 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station (Text with EEA relevance).

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2012/996/article/5Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 of 26 October 2012 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 996/2012 of 26 October 2012 imposing special conditions governing the import of feed and food originating in or consigned from Japan following the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station and repealing Implementing Regulation (EU) No 284/2012 (Text with EEA relevance)2020-12-09King's Printer of Acts of Parliamenthttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eu-exit/https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02012R0996-20130602texttext/xmlen2013-06-02
Article 5Declaration1.

Each consignment of products referred to in Article 1 shall be accompanied by a valid declaration drawn up and signed in accordance with Article 6.

2.

The declaration referred to in paragraph 1 shall:

(a)

attest that the products comply with the legislation in force in Japan and

(b)

specify whether the products are falling or not under the transitional measures provided for in the Japanese legislation.

3.

The declaration referred to in paragraph 1 shall furthermore certify that:

(a)

the product has been harvested and/or processed before 11 March 2011 ; or

(b)

the product, other than tea and mushrooms originating in the prefecture Shizuoka and other than mushrooms originating in the prefectures Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata or Aomori, originates in and is consigned from a prefecture other than Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Iwate; or

(c)

the product originates in and is consigned from Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Iwate but is not listed in Annex IV to this Regulation (and consequently no analysis before export is required); or

(d)

the product is consigned from Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Iwate prefectures, but does not originate in one of those prefectures and has not been exposed to radioactivity during transiting; or

(e)

where the product is tea or mushrooms originating in Shizuoka prefecture or mushrooms originating in Yamanashi, Nagano, Niigata or Aomori prefecture, or a derived product thereof or a compound feed or food containing more than 50 % of these products, the product is accompanied by an analytical report containing the results of sampling and analysis; or

(f)

where the product, listed in Annex IV to this Regulation, originates in Fukushima, Gunma, Ibaraki, Tochigi, Miyagi, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, Kanagawa and Iwate prefectures, or is a compound feed or food containing more than 50 % of these products, the product is accompanied by an analytical report containing the results of sampling and analysis. The list of products in Annex IV is without prejudice to the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients

OJ L 43, 14.2.1997, p. 1 .

; or

(g)

where the origin of the product or of the ingredients present at more than 50 % is unknown, the product is accompanied by an analytical report containing the results of sampling and analysis.

4.

Point (f) of paragraph 3 shall apply also to products caught or harvested in the coastal waters of the prefectures referred to therein, irrespective of where such products are landed.