Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692Show full title

Article 20 U.K. Dispatch of ungulates to the Union

1. Consignments of ungulates shall only be permitted to enter the Union if such consignments have been dispatched from the establishment of origin to the Union without passing through any other establishment.

2. By way of derogation of paragraph 1, consignments of ungulates coming from more than one establishment of origin may be permitted to enter the Union if the animals of the consignment have undergone a single assembly operation in the third country or territory of origin or zone thereof subject to compliance with the following conditions:

(a) the ungulates belong to one of the following species and categories:

(i)

Bos taurus, Ovis aries, Capra hircus or Sus scrofa;

or

(ii)

Equidae intended for slaughter;

(b) the assembly operation took place in an establishment:

(i)

approved for conducting assembly operations of ungulates by the competent authority in the third country or territory in accordance with requirements which are at least as stringent as to those laid down with Article 5 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035(1);

(ii)

listed for that purpose by the competent authority of the third country or territory of dispatch, including the information provided for in Article 21 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035;

(iii)

where the following records are maintained up-to-date and kept for a period of at least 3 years:

• the origin of the animals,

• the dates of arrival and dispatch to and from the assembly centre,

• the identification code of the animals,

• the registration number of the establishment of origin of the animals,

• the registration number of the transporters and the means of transport delivering or collecting the consignment of ungulates to and from that centre;

(iv)

which complies with the requirements provided for in Article 8 and Article 23(1);

(c) the assembly operation in the assembly centre took no longer than 6 days; this period shall be considered as part of the timeframe for sampling for testing prior to dispatch to the Union, where such sampling is required by this Regulation;

(d) the ungulates must have arrived in the Union within a period of 10 days from the date of dispatch from the establishment of origin.

(1)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2035 of 28 June 2019 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards rules for establishments keeping terrestrial animals and hatcheries, and the traceability of certain kept terrestrial animals and hatching eggs (OJ L 314, 5.12.2019, p. 115).