1. These Regulations may be cited as the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011; they apply in England and come into force on 25th May 2011.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“animal” means an animal of any kind, including a bird, fish or invertebrate;
“enforcement authority” has the meaning given in regulation 31;
“genetic material” means hatching eggs and animal semen, ova or embryos;
“product” means a product listed in Annex I to Commission Decision 2007/275/EC (concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC(1)) and, in addition, hay and straw.
(2) All references in Schedule 1 to European Union instruments are references to those instruments as amended from time to time.
3.—(1) These Regulations do not apply in relation to pet animals where—
(a)the movement is a non-commercial movement, and
(b)in the case of cats, dogs and ferrets—
(i)the pet animal is accompanying the owner or authorised person, or
(ii)where more than five pet animals are accompanying the owner or authorised person, the conditions set out in Article 5(2) of the Pets Regulation are fulfilled.
(2) In this regulation—
“authorised person”, “non-commercial movement” and “owner” have the meanings given by Article 3 of the Pets Regulation;
“the Pets Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the non-commercial movement of pet animals and repealing Regulation (EC) No 998/2003;
“pet animal” means an animal of a species listed in Annex I to the Pets Regulation;
“accompanying” has the same meaning as in the Pets Regulation.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 3 substituted (29.12.2014) by The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3158), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 13
4. Trade with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland under any agreement between those countries and the European Union is treated as trade between member States for the purposes of these Regulations.
OJ No. L 116, 4.5.2007, p. 9.