CHAPTER VIII U.K. Entry into the [F1 United Kingdom] of breeding animals and their germinal products

Article 35 U.K. Equivalence of measures applied to animal breeding in third countries

1. The [F2 appropriate authority may make regulations], recognising that measures applied in a third country are equivalent to those required by this Regulation in relation to the following:

(a) the recognition of breed societies and breeding operations provided for in Article 4;

(b) the approval of breeding programmes of breed societies and breeding operations provided for in Article 8;

(c) the entry of purebred breeding animals in breeding books and the registration of hybrid breeding pigs in breeding registers provided for in Articles 18, 20 and 23;

(d) the acceptance of breeding animals for breeding provided for in Articles 21, 22 and 24;

(e) the use of germinal products of breeding animals for testing and breeding provided for in Articles 21 and 24;

(f) the performance testing and genetic evaluation provided for in Article 25;

(g) the official controls on operators provided for in Article 43.

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3. [F5 Regulations under paragraph 1 may set out detailed arrangements governing the entry of breeding animals and their germinal products into the United Kingdom from a third country and may include:]

(a) the format and content of the zootechnical certificates accompanying those breeding animals or the germinal products thereof;

(b) specific requirements applicable to the entry into the [F6 United Kingdom] of those breeding animals or the germinal products thereof and the official controls to be performed on those breeding animals or on the germinal products thereof upon entry into the [F6 United Kingdom];

(c) where necessary, procedures for drawing up and amending lists of breeding bodies, located in the third country concerned, from which the entry into the [F6 United Kingdom] of breeding animals and the germinal products thereof is permitted.

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Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Art. 35(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(a)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 35(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(a)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Art. 35(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(b) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 35(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(c)(i) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6 Words in Art. 35(3)(b)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(c)(ii) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7 Art. 35(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/588), regs. 1, 11(9)(d) (with reg. 12); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Ch. 8 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Breeding (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/117), regs. 1, 9(1); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)