Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235Dangos y teitl llawn

Article 1 U.K. Subject matter and scope

1. This Regulation lays down rules regarding animal health certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2016/429, official certificates provided for in Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and animal health/ official certificates based on those Regulations and as regards the issuance and replacement of those certificates required for the entry into the Union(1), movements within the Union and between Member States of certain consignments of animals and goods (hereinafter together referred to as ‘the certificates’).

2. This Regulation establishes standard models for animal health certificates, official certificates or animal health/official certificates:

(a) for movements between Member States or within the Union of animals, products of animal origin and germinal products thereof and notes for their completion;

(b) for the entry into the Union of animals, products of animal origin, composite products, germinal products, animal by-products, sprouts for human consumption and seeds intended for the production of sprouts for human consumption, and notes for their completion.

3. This Regulation establishes model certificates, in the form of animal health certificates, official certificates or animal health/official certificates respectively, and a model attestation for the following animals and goods intended for human consumption:

(a) model certificates for movements within the Union of the following goods intended for human consumption:

(i)

products of animal origin from terrestrial animals which are allowed to be moved from a restricted zone subject to emergency measures or disease control measures or which originate from animals of species subject to those measures;

(ii)

unskinned large wild game;

(b) model certificates for the entry into the Union of the following animals and goods intended for human consumption:

(i)

products of animal origin and composite products for which such certificate is required in accordance with Article 13 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/625;

(ii)

certain live aquatic animals and products of animal origin for which such certificate is required in accordance with point (c) of the first paragraph of Article 3 of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/692;

(iii)

live insects and live snails;

(c) a model certificate for sprouts and seeds intended for the production of sprouts;

(d) a model certificate for transit through the Union to a third country either by immediate transit or after storage in the Union of composite products intended for human consumption;

(e) model certificates in the case of ante-mortem inspection at the holding of provenance or in the case of emergency slaughter outside the slaughterhouse;

(f) a model private attestation signed by the importing food business operator for shelf-stable composite products containing processed products of animal origin other than processed meat, where such composite products are entering into the Union.

(1)

In accordance with the Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, and in particular Article 5(4) of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in conjunction with Annex 2 to that Protocol, for the purposes of this Regulation references to ‘Union’ include the United Kingdom in respect of Northern Ireland.