The Export and Movement Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) Regulations 2007

Export of hides and skins

11.—(1) No person may export hides or skins of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates produced in or brought into the areas specified in Schedule 1.

(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to hides or skins that—

(a) were produced in the United Kingdom before 15th July 2007;

(b) comply with the requirements of paragraph 2(c) or (d) of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption(1);

(c) were produced outside the areas specified in Schedule 1 in accordance with the conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 and since introduction into the areas specified in Schedule 1 have been stored and transported separately from hides or skins not eligible for export; or

(d) were produced from animals slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or in the case of farmed game, slaughtered on premises, or in the case of wild game, killed, for the production of meat in accordance with regulation 5(3),

provided that treated hides or skins are separated from untreated hides and skins.

(3) Hides or skins exported to another member State from England must be accompanied by an official certificate which bears the following words:—

“Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 on certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.”.

(4) Paragraph (3) does not apply to hides or skins which conform to the requirements of either—

(a) points (b) to (e) or paragraph 1 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002; or

(b) points (c) or (d) of paragraph 2 of Part A of Chapter VI of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002,

if compliance with those conditions is stated in the commercial document accompanying the consignment, endorsed (in the case of sub-paragraph (b)) in accordance with regulation 14.

(1)

OJ No. L273, 10.10.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 829/2007.