[F1PART 3AQUARANTINE

Textual Amendments

Wild aquatic animals

21C.(1) Wild aquatic animals of species susceptible to one or more of the diseases listed in Annex 1A to Regulation (EC) No. 1251/2008 which are intended for release into a farm or mollusc farming area in a part of Scotland which has been declared free of any of those diseases must—

(a)originate from—

(i)a constituent GB territory, or a zone or compartment thereof, declared free of that disease;

(ii)Northern Ireland, or a zone or a compartment thereof, declared free of that disease in accordance with Article 49 or Article 50 of the EU Directive; or

(iii)the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or a third country, where the competent authority has consented to its introduction; or

(b)be, or have been, held in quarantine facilities in accordance with the requirements of Commission Decision 2008/946/EC.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a)(iii), consent may only be given if the competent authority is satisfied that the aquaculture animal concerned is free of the relevant disease.

[F2(3) In this regulation an animal is susceptible to a disease listed in Annex 1A to Regulation 1251/2008 if it is of a species listed as susceptible to that disease in a document published under Article 3a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008.]]