Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Dangos y teitl llawn

CHAPTER VI U.K. Requirements for hides and skins of ungulates

A. Scope U.K.

1. The provisions of this Chapter do not apply: U.K.

(a)

to hides and skins of ungulates fulfilling the requirements of Council Directive 64/433/EEC of 26 June 1964 on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat(1);

(b)

to hides and skins of ungulates having undergone the complete process of tanning;

(c)

to ‘wet blue’;

(d)

to ‘pickled pelts’; and

(e)

to limed hides (treated with lime and in brine at a pH of 12 to 13 for at least eight hours).

2. Within the scope defined in paragraph 1, the provisions of this Chapter apply to fresh, chilled and treated hides and skins. For the purpose of this Chapter, ‘treated hides and skins’ means hides and skins that have been: U.K.

(a)

dried;

(b)

dry-salted or wet-salted for at least 14 days prior to dispatch;

(c)

salted for seven days in sea salt with the addition of 2 % of sodium carbonate;

(d)

dried for 42 days at a temperature of at least 20 ^oC; or

(e)

preserved by a process other than tanning specified in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 33(2).

B. Trade U.K.

3. Trade in fresh or chilled hides and skins is subject to the same health conditions as those applicable to fresh meat pursuant to Council Directive 72/461/EEC of 12 December 1972 on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat(2). U.K.

4. Trade in treated hides and skins is authorised on condition that the commercial document provided for in Annex II accompanies each consignment and attests that: U.K.

(a)

the hides and skins have been treated in accordance with paragraph 2; and

(b)

the consignment has not been in contact with other animal products or live animals presenting a risk of spreading a serious transmissible disease.

C. Importation U.K.

5. Member States must authorise the import of fresh or chilled hides and skins if: U.K.

(a)

they have been obtained from animals referred to in Article 6(1)(b) or (c);

(b)

[F1 they come from a third country or, in the case of regionalisation in accordance with Community legislation, from a part of a third country, appearing on the list set out in part XIV(A) of Annex XI and which:

(i)

for at least 12 months before dispatch, has been free from the following diseases:

• classical swine fever,

• African swine fever, and

• rinderpest, and

(ii)

has been free for at least 12 months before dispatch from foot-and-mouth disease and where, for 12 months before dispatch, no vaccination has been carried out against foot-and-mouth disease;]

(c)

they have been obtained from:

(i)

animals that have remained in the territory of the country of origin for at least three months before being slaughtered or since birth in the case of animals less that three months old,

(ii)

in the case of hides and skins from bi-ungulates, animals that come from holdings in which there has been no outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in the previous 30 days, and around which within a radius of 10 km there has been no case of foot-and-mouth disease for 30 days,

(iii)

in the case of hides and skins from swine, animals that come from holdings in which there has been no outbreak of swine vesicular disease in the previous 30 days, or of classical or African swine fever in the previous 40 days, and around which within a radius of 10 km there has been no case of these diseases for 30 days, or

(iv)

animals that have passed the ante-mortem health inspection at the slaughterhouse during the 24 hours before slaughter and have shown no evidence of foot-and-mouth disease, rinderpest, classical swine fever, African swine fever or swine vesicular disease;

(d)

they have undergone all precautions to avoid recontamination with pathogenic agents; and

(e)

a certificate conforming to the model laid down in Chapter 5(A) of Annex X accompanies them.

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 668/2004 of 10 March 2004 amending certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).

6. Member States must authorise the import of treated hides and skins if: U.K.

(a)

they have been obtained from animals referred to in Article 6(1)(b), (c) or (k);

(b)

a certificate conforming to the model laid down in Chapter 5(B) of Annex X accompanies them;

(c)

[F1 they come either:

(i)

from a third country or, in the case of regionalisation in accordance with Community legislation, from a part of a third country, appearing on the list set out in part XIV(B) of Annex XI and they have been treated in accordance with paragraph 2; or

(ii)

from animals originating from other regions of a third country or other third countries and they have been treated in accordance with paragraph 2(c) or (d); or

(iii)

from ruminant animals and have been treated in accordance with paragraph 2 and come from a third country or, in the case of regionalisation in accordance with Community legislation, from a part of a third country, appearing on the list set out in part XIV (C) of Annex XI. In this case, the certificate referred to in subparagraph (b) is replaced by a declaration conforming to the model laid down in Chapter 5(C) of Annex X, to the effect that or proving that those requirements have been met;]

(d)

in the case of salted hides and skins transported by ship, the hides have been salted before importation for the duration stated in the certificate accompanying the consignment; and

(e)

the consignment has not been in contact with other animal products or with live animals presenting a risk of spreading a serious transmissible disease.

7. Fresh, chilled or treated hides and skins of ungulates must be imported in containers, road vehicles, railway wagons or bales sealed by the competent authority of the third country of dispatch. U.K.

(1)

OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p. 2012. Directive as last amended by Directive 95/23/EC (OJ L 243, 11.10.1995, p. 7).

(2)

OJ L 302, 31.12.1972, p. 24. Directive last amended by the 1994 Act of Accession.