[F129.—(1) Where the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency—
(a)has reasonable grounds for suspecting the existence of a disease, zoonosis, phenomenon or circumstance in a country [F2or territory] outside [F3Great Britain] such that animals or products originating from the whole or part of the country concerned are liable to pose risk to human or animal health, or
(b)is of the opinion that there is serious non-compliance with official control rules under the [F4Official Controls Regulation in relation to imports],
the Secretary of State or the Agency may publish a written declaration of the special measures necessary in order to contain the risk to human or animal health or the risk of non-compliant animals or products entering [F3Great Britain].
(2) The special measures that Secretary of State or the Agency may require include—
(a)suspension of entry of any animal or product originating in or dispatched from the whole or part of the country [F5or territory] concerned;
(b)imposition of conditions requiring that any animals or products—
(i)prior to dispatch, or on arrival, are made the subject of specific treatment or controls;
(ii)be accompanied by an official certificate, an official attestation, or any other evidence (in any format that may be specified) that any import F6... complies with established official control rules under the [F7Official Controls Regulation] and any relevant Implementing Regulations and Delegated Regulations made under it or equivalent rules in [F8third countries];
(c)such other measures as the Secretary of State or the Agency considers necessary to contain the risk.
(3) The declaration must be published in such manner as the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency (as the case may be) thinks fit and may be amended or revoked by further declaration at any time.
(4) No person may import anything into the United Kingdom in breach of any measures mentioned in any such declaration.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 29 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1488), regs. 1(1), 26(23)
F2Words in reg. 29(1)(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 22(a)(ii)
F3Words in reg. 29(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 22(a)(i)
F4Words in reg. 29(1)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 22(a)(iii)
F5Words in reg. 29(2)(a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 22(b)(i)
F6Words in reg. 29(2)(b)(ii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 22(b)(ii)(aa)