The Trade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Regulation 2(2)(c)

SCHEDULE 2 The public health criteria

1.  The existence and robustness in the third country of legislation covering—

(a) products of animal origin;

(b) the use of veterinary medicinal products, including rules on their prohibition or authorisation, their distribution, their placing on the market and the rules covering administration and inspection;

(c) the preparation and use of feedingstuffs, including the procedures for using additives and the preparation and use of medicated feedingstuffs, as well as the hygiene quality of the raw materials used for preparing feedingstuffs and of the final product.

2.  The hygiene conditions of production, manufacture, handling, storage and dispatch applied to products of animal origin destined for the United Kingdom.

3.  Any experience of marketing of the product from the third country and the results of any import controls carried out.

4.  The results of official controls(1) carried out in the third country, in particular the results of the assessment of the competent authorities, and the action that competent authorities have taken in the light of any recommendations addressed to them.

5.  The existence, implementation and communication of an approved zoonoses control programme in the third country.

6.  The existence, implementation and communication of an approved residue control programme in the third country.

(1)

Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products.