Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products in column 2 is to be considered as having no more than an indicative value, the scope being determined, within the context of this Annex by the scope of the CN codes as they exist at the time of adoption of the current Decision.

Where ex CN codes are referred to in this table, the coverage is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken together.

0101

Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies

All

0102

Live bovine animals

All

0103

Live swine

All

0104 10

Live sheep

All

0104 20

Live goats

All

0105

Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks, geese, turkeys and guinea fowls

All

0106

Other live animals

All

Heading includes, the following domestic or wild animals:

1. (A)

   Mammals

   1. (1)

      Primates

   2. (2)

      Whales Dolphins and porpoises (Mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees and dugongs (Mammals of the order Sirenia)

   3. (3)

      Other (such as reindeer, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, bears, elephants, camels, zebras, rabbits, hares, deer, antelope, chamois, foxes, mink, and other animals for fur farms

2. (B)

   Reptiles (including snakes and turtles)

3. (C)

   Birds

   1. (1)

      Birds of Prey

   2. (2)

      Psittaciformes (including parrots, parakeets, macaws and cockatoos)

   3. (3)

      Other (such as partridges, pheasants, quail, woodcocks, snipe, pigeons, grouse, ortolan, wild ducks, wild geese, thrushes, blackbirds, larks, finches, tits, humming birds, peacocks, swans, and other birds not specified in heading 01.05).

4. (D)

   Other, such as bees (whether or not travelling in boxes or cages or hives), other insects, frogs.

Heading 0106 excludes animals forming part of circuses, menageries, or other similar travelling animal shows (heading 95.08)

0106 11

Primates

All

0106 12

Whales, dolphins porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia).

All

0106 19

Other

Domestic rabbits, and mammals other than those part of 0101, 0102, 0103, 0104, 0106 11 and 0106 12. Includes dogs and cats.

0106 20

Reptiles (including snakes and turtles).

All

0106 31

Birds: Birds of prey.

All

0106 32

Birds: Psittaciformes (including parrots, parakeets, macaws and cockatoos).

All

0106 39

Other

Includes: birds, other than those falling under headings 0105, 0106 31 and 0106 32, including pigeons.

0106 90 00

Other

All other live animals not included elsewhere, other than mammals, birds and reptiles. Live frogs whether for vivaria to be kept alive, or to be killed for human consumption, are covered by this heading.

This chapter does not cover

1. (a)

   Products of a kind described in headings 0201 to 0208 or 0210 unfit or unsuitable for human consumption;

2. (b)

   guts bladders or stomachs of animals (heading 0504) or animal blood (heading 0511 or 3002);

3. (c)

   animal fat other than the products of heading 0209 (Chapter 15).

0201

Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled

All

0202

Meat of bovine animals, frozen

All

0203

Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen

All

0204

Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen

All

0205 00

Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen.

All

0206

Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen.

All

0207

Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen.

All

0208

Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen.

Excludes: raw material not intended for human consumption.

This includes bones and other material for the production of gelatine or collagen for human consumption.

0208 10

Of Rabbits or hares

All

0208 20 (00)

Frog’s legs

All

0208 30

Of Primates

All

0208 40

Of whales dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); of manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia).

All

0208 50 (00)

Of Reptiles (including snakes and turtles).

All

0208 90

Other: of domestic pigeons, of game other than of rabbits or hares.

Includes meat of quails, seal meat, reindeer or any other mammal species.

0209 00

Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.

Includes both fat and processed fat.

0210

Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal.

All: Includes meat, meat products and bones for human consumption and other products of animal origin.

Processed animal protein including greaves for human consumption is covered by this chapter. Includes dried pigs ears for human consumption.

Sausages are included under heading 1601.

This chapter does not cover

1. (a)

   Mammals of heading 0106;

2. (b)

   meat of mammals of heading 0106 (heading 0208 or 0210);

3. (c)

   fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates unfit for human consumption (heading 2301); or

4. (d)

   caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 1604)

This chapter includes both live fish for breeding and reproduction, live ornamental fish, and live fish or live crustaceans transported alive but imported for human consumption.

All products in this section are subject to veterinary checks.

0301

Live fish

All: Includes Trout, Eels, Carp, or any other species or any fish imported for breeding or reproduction.

Live fish imported for immediate human consumption are treated for veterinary checks purposes as if they were products.

Includes ornamental fish under heading 0301 10.

0302

Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304*.

All

0302 70

Livers and roes

0303

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304.

All:

Includes: Pacific Salmon but excluding livers and roes; sockeye salmon (red salmon); other salmonidae, excluding livers and roes; Trout; Atlantic Salmon; and all other fish.

0304

Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or frozen.

0305

Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or

during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption.

All: includes other fishery products such as flours, meals and pellets fit for human consumption made from fish, crustaceans or other aquatic invertebrates.

0306

Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine;

crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled,

frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

All: Live crustaceans imported for immediate human consumption are considered and treated for veterinary checks purposes as if they were products.

0307

Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine;

aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, chilled, frozen;

dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

All:

This includes Bonamia Ostreae and Martelia refringens, also molluscs and aquatic invertebrates that may have been cooked and then chilled or frozen.

Live molluscs imported for immediate human consumption are considered and treated for veterinary checks purposes as if they were products.

This includes meat of snail species.

0307 60 00

Snails other than sea snails.

Includes terrestrial gastropods of the species Helix pomatia Linné, Helix aspersa Muller, Helix lucorum and species of the family Achatinidae.

Includes live snails for immediate human consumption and also snail meat for human consumption.

Includes lightly precooked or pre-processed snail.

0307 91 00

Live aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh, or chilled.

All

0307 99 90

Other: This code includes flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

All: Includes fish meal for human consumption.

0401

Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.

All: Milk includes milk that is raw, pasteurised, or thermised.

Includes fractions of milk.

Milk for animal feed is included under heading 2309.

0402

Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.

All

0403

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added fruit, nuts or cocoa.

All:

Includes cream, butter, and flavoured, jellied, frozen and fermented milk, and concentrated milk for human consumption.

Ice cream is included under heading 2105.

0404

Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter, not elsewhere specified or included.

All

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads.

All: Includes dairy spreads.

0406

Cheese and curd

All

0407 00

Birds’ eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked.

All: Includes hatching eggs and Specified Pathogen Free eggs (SPF), and also eggs for human consumption.

Includes ‘100 year old eggs’.

Egg albumin not fit for human consumption is included under heading 3502.

0408

Birds’ eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.

All: This heading includes egg products whether or not heat treated.

This heading covers whole eggs not in shell, and egg yolks of all birds. The products of this heading may be fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded (e.g. cylindrical ‘long eggs’), frozen or otherwise preserved. All these fall in the heading whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter and whether for use as food or for industrial purposes (e.g. in tanning).

This heading does not cover

1. (a)

   Oil of egg yolk (heading 15.06).

2. (b)

   Egg preparations containing seasoning, spices or other additives (heading 21.06).

3. (c)

   Lecithin (heading 29.23).

4. (d)

   Separate egg white (egg albumin) (heading 35.02).

0409 00 00

Natural honey

All

This heading covers honey produced by bees (Apis Mellifera) or by other insects, centrifuged or in the comb or containing comb chunks, provided that neither sugar nor other substance has been added. Such honey may be designated by floral source, origin or colour.

The heading excludes artificial honey and mixtures of natural and artificial honey (heading 17.02).

0410 00 00

Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included.

All

This heading includes Royal Jelly and Propolis and also includes bones or other animal derived material for human consumption.

Insects or insect eggs for human consumption are included under this heading.

This heading 0410 00 00 covers products of animal origin suitable for human consumption, not specified or included elsewhere in the combined nomenclature. This includes:

1. (a)

   Turtles eggs;

2. (b)

   Salanganes’ nests (‘birds nests’)

The heading 0410 00 00excludes animal blood, edible or not, liquid or dried (heading 05.11 or 30.02)

Additional selection requirements for certain products in this chapter are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VIII (wool, hair, pig bristles, feathers and parts of feathers).

0502 10 00

Pigs, hogs or boars bristles and hair; waste of such bristles or hair.

Un-processed pigs bristles means pig bristles that have not undergone factory washing, been obtained from tanning, or been treated by some other method to ensure that no pathogens remain.

0503 00 00

Horse hair and horsehair waste.

All hair under this code must be notified to the competent veterinary authority. Proof of species, status and treatment received may be required.

Heading 0503 excludes hair that has undergone a spinning process or is knotted end to end. This code includes not only un-worked horsehair but also horsehair that has been washed, dyed, bleached, curled or otherwise prepared.

0504 00 00

Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.

All: Includes stomachs, bladders and intestines cleaned salted dried or heated of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine, or of poultry origin.

0505

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation; powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers.

All — excluding treated decorative feathers, treated feathers carried by travellers for their private use or consignments of treated feathers sent to private individuals for non industrial purposes.

Heading 0505 covers untreated as well as those treated as follows: merely cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation but not otherwise worked or mounted.

Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; and down, raw or other feathers.

0506

Bones and horn-cores, un-worked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut to shape), treated with acid or de-gelatinised; powder and waste of these products.

Includes bones for production of gelatine, or collagen if derived from carcases that have been slaughtered for human consumption and bone flour for human consumption.

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter X (bones and bone products etc.).

0507

Ivory, tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks, un-worked or simply prepared but not cut to shape; powder and waste of these products.

Selection requirements for game trophies are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VII.

Includes treated game trophies from birds and ungulates being solely bones, horns, hooves, claws, antlers, teeth, hides or skins from third countries.

Ex05100000

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk, cantharides, bile, whether or not dried;

Glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharmaceutical products, fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise provisionally preserved.

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. Annex VIII Chapter XI, Animal by products for the manufacture of feed including petfood and for pharmaceuticals and other technical products.

Glands, other animal products and bile are covered by this code.

Dried glands and products are covered by heading 3501.

0511

Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption.

Includes genetic material (semen and embryos of animal origin such as bovine, ovine, caprine, equine and porcine species.

Includes also animal by-products of categories 1 and 2.

0511 10 00

Bovine semen

0511 91

Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates; dead animals of Chapter 3.

All: includes fish eggs for hatching: and dead animals. Includes animal by-products for the manufacture of petfood and for pharmaceuticals and other technical products.

0511 99 (10)

Sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste of raw hides and skins.

All

0511 99 90

Other

All: embryos, ova, semen and genetic material not covered in 0511 10 and of species other than bovine come under this heading.

Includes animal by-products for the manufacture of petfood or other technological products.

Includes bee products for use in apiculture.

Also includes dead animals of chapter I (dogs and cats).

Includes material where the essential characteristics have not been changed, and edible animal blood not derived from fish, for human consumption.

Only certain plant products are subject to veterinary controls.

Ex12130000

Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground,

pressed or in the form of pellets

Includes only Hay and Straw.

Ex1214 (90)

Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin, forage kale lupines vetches and similar forage products whether or not in the form of pellets:

Other.

Includes only Hay and Straw.

All animal derived oils.

Additional selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 as below:

Annex VII Chapter IV; rendered fats and fish oils;

Annex VIII Chapter XII; Rendered fats from category 2 materials for oleo chemical purposes;

Annex VIII Chapter XIII; Fat derivatives.

Fat derivatives include first stage products derived from fats and oils when in their pure state produced by a method laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III. Derivatives mixed with other materials are not included.

1501 00

Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209 or 1503.

All

1502 00

Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 1503.

All

1503 00

Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified or mixed or otherwise prepared.

All

1504

Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.

Fish oils — and oils from marine mammals.

Miscellaneous edible preparations are covered by Chapter 21.

1506 00 00

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.

Un-split fats or oils, and also their initial fractions produced by a method laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III.

Derivatives mixed with other materials are not included.

The heading 1516 covers animal and vegetable fats and oils, which have undergone a specific chemical transformation of a kind mentioned below, but have not been further prepared.

The heading also covers similarly treated fractions of animal or vegetable fats and oils.

Hydrogenation, which is affected by bringing the products into contact with pure hydrogen at a suitable temperature and pressure in the presence of a catalyst (usually finely divided nickel), raises the melting points of fats and increases the consistency of oils by transforming unsaturated glycerides into saturated glycerides of higher melting points.

1516 10

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether refined or not, but not further prepared.

Animal fats and oils only. Derivatives mixed with other materials are not included in veterinary checks.

For veterinary purposes fat derivatives include first stage products derived from animal fats and oils when in their pure state produced by a method laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III.

Ex151800

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere specified or included.

Animal fats and oils only

Rendered fats only.

Fat derivatives produced by a method laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III.

Derivatives mixed with other materials are not included.

1518 00 (91)

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised, dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading 1516.

Animal fats and oils only

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter XIII (for fat derivatives), and Annex VIII Chapter XII for rendered fats from category 2 materials for oleochemical purposes.

1518 00 (95)

Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions.

Fats and oil preparations derived from animals.

1521 90 (91)

Raw beeswax and other insect waxes whether refined or not.

Bees wax for technical purposes.

Additional selection requirements are laid down Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter IX — Apiculture products.

1521 90 (99)

Other.

Bee products for apiculture purposes.

Additional selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter IX — Apiculture products. Apiculture products other than bee products for apiculture must be submitted under code 0511 99‘Other’.

This chapter Includes composite products containing processed animal product.

1601 00

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these products.

Includes preserved meat in various forms.

1602

Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood.

Includes preserved meat in various forms.

1603 00

Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates.

All: includes Surimi, fish protein in gel form whether chilled of frozen.

1604

Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs; fish whole or in pieces, but not minced.

All: cooked or precooked culinary preparations containing molluscs or fish.

Includes canned fish, and canned caviar in airtight containers.

Fish products mixed with pasta are included under heading 1902.

1605

Crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or preserved.

All: Fully prepared or preprepared snail falls under this heading.

Includes canned crustaceans, or other aquatic invertebrates.

This chapter does not include chemically pure sugars other than sucrose, lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose.

1702 11 00

Lactose and lactose syrup, containing by weight 99 % or more lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose, calculated on the dry matter.

This chapter does not cover, except in the case of stuffed products of heading 1902, food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish, or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (chapter 16).

This chapter includes composite products containing processed animal products.

1901

Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt extract, not containing cocoa or containing less that 40 % by weight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included; food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by eight of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.

Culinary preparations are included under chapters 16 and 21.

Ex1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances) or

otherwise prepared, such as spaghetti, macaroni, noodles, lasagne, gnocchi,

ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared.

Includes cooked or precooked culinary preparations containing animal products.

1902 20 (10)

Containing more than 20 % by weight of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates.

All

1902 20 (30)

Containing more than 20 % by weight of sausages and the like, of meat and meat offal of any kind, including fats of any kind or origin.

All

1902 20 (91)

Cooked

All

1902 20 (99)

Other [other stuffed pasta, not cooked].

All

Ex1905

Patisseries

Includes those preparations containing meat.

This chapter does not cover food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16).

Ex2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 2006.

This chapter includes composite products containing processed animal product.

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Ex2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006.

Includes those preparations containing meat.

This chapter includes composite products containing processed animal product.

Ex2103 (90 90)

Sauces and preparations therefore; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard.

Other

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Ex2104

Soups and broths and preparations therefore; homogenised composite food preparations.

Includes those preparations containing meat or products of animal origin in accordance with this Decision.

Ex210500

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa.

Includes those preparations containing processed milk in accordance with this Decision.

Ex2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included.

Includes those preparations containing meat or products of animal origin in accordance with this Decision.

Ex210610

Protein concentrates and textured protein substances.

Includes those preparations containing products of animal origin in accordance with this Decision.

2106 90 (10)

Cheese Fondues

All

2106 90 (98)

Other

Includes those preparations containing meat or products of animal origin in accordance with this Decision.

Heading 2309 includes products of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included, obtained by processing vegetable or animal materials to such an extent that they have lost the essential characteristics of the original material, other than vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-products of such processing.

2301

Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves.

Includes: processed animal protein not for human consumption.

Meat and bone meal, feather meal, dried greaves all not for human consumption.

Selection requirements for processed animal protein are as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter II.

Ex2309

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.

Includes petfood, dog chews and mixtures of meals.

Selection requirements for petfood and dog chews are as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter II.

2309 10

Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale.

All

2309 90

Other

This heading includes products containing fish or marine mammal solubles, milk products or other carbohydrates.

Includes colostrum and liquid milk not for human consumption, and products containing milk not for human consumption.

2309 90 (99)

Other

Includes egg products not for human consumption and other processed products of animal origin not for human consumption.

Products for animal feeding purposes, including mixtures of meals (such as hoof and horn etc.).

Selection requirements for egg products are as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter X.

Ex2835

Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phosphates; poly phosphates whether on not chemically defined.

Only certain phosphates of calcium are subject to checks

2835 (25)

Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate (dicalcium phosphate).

Selection requirements for dicalcium phosphate are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. Annex VII Chapter VII.

2835 (26)

Other phosphates of calcium.

Selection requirements for tricalcium phosphate are as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter VIII.

Finished medicinal products are not covered by veterinary legislation for import. Intermediate products derived from category 3 material and intended for technical uses in medical devices, in vitro diagnostics, laboratory reagents and cosmetics are included.

3001

Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere specified or included.

Includes: Animal derived material only.

Refer to selection requirements in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002:

Annex VIII Chapter IV blood and blood products for technical products excluding serum of equidae, and Annex VIII Chapter XI, animal by- products for the manufacture of feed, including petfood, and of technical products excluding intermediate products as referred to in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2007/200614.

3001 (10)

Glands and other organs, dried, whether or not powdered.

Products of animal origin only.

3001 (20 90)

Extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions, other.

Products of animal origin only.

Ex3002

Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or obtained by mean of biotechnical processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micro-organisms (excluding yeasts) and similar products.

Only products of animal origin.

3002 (10 10)

Antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes.

Antisera of animal origin only.

Excludes prepared medicinal and finished products for the final consumer.

Under heading 3002 selection requirements are as for animal by products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 9 in:

Annex VII Chapter III, (blood products);

Annex VIII Chapter IV, (blood and blood products for technical products);

Annex VIII Chapter V (serum of equidae).

3002 (10 99)

Haemoglobin, blood globulins and serum globulins: Other.

Only animal derived material.

3002 (90 30)

Animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses.

Ex3002 (90 50)

Cultures of micro organisms.

Pathogens and cultures of pathogens.

Ex3002 (90 90)

Other

Pathogens and cultures of pathogens.

This chapter does not cover animal blood of heading 0511.

Ex31010000

Animal fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated; fertilisers produced by mixing or chemical treatment of animal or vegetable products.

Only animal derived products in an un-adulterated form. Includes manure, but manure-chemical mixtures, and fertilisers are excluded.

Selection requirements for manure, processed manure or processed manure products are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter III.

Ex3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues.

Casein for human consumption or animal feeding purposes.

Selection requirements for milk, milk based products and colostrum not for human consumption are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

Ex3502

Albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80 % whey proteins, calculated on the dry matter), albuminates and other albumin derivatives.

Includes products derived from eggs and derived from milk whether for human consumption or not for human consumption (including animal feed purposes) as specified below.

Egg products and dairy products, and processed products for human consumption are as defined in Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 Annex I.

Selection requirements for egg products not for human consumption are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002: Annex VII Chapter X; and for milk, milk based products and colostrums not for human consumption are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. Annex VII Chapter V.

Ex350300

Gelatine (including gelatine in rectangular [including square] sheets, whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatine derivatives; isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of heading 3501.

Gelatine for human consumption and for the food industry.

Gelatine under heading 9602, (empty capsules) are excluded from veterinary checks.

Selection requirements for gelatine and hydrolysed protein not for human consumption are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter VI.

Ex35040000

Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their derivatives, not elsewhere specified or included; hide powder whether or not chromed.

Collagen and Hydrolysed proteins.

Selection requirements for gelatine and hydrolysed protein are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter VI

Includes protein based collagen products derived from hides, skins and tendons of animals, including bones in the case of pigs, poultry and fish.

Includes hydrolysed proteins consisting of polypeptides, peptides or amino acids, and mixtures thereof, obtained by the hydrolysis of animal by-products.

Includes any milk by-products for human consumption.

Ex3507

Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included.

Rennet and concentrates for human consumption.

3507 10 00

Rennet and concentrates thereof.

Hides and skins of ungulates and birds only under headings 4101, 4102, 4103.

Additional selection requirements for hides and skins of ungulates are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VI.

4101

Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not de-haired or split.

Veterinary checks only apply to fresh, chilled or treated hides:

Includes hides dried, dry salted, wet salted, or preserved by a process other than by tanning.

4102

Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not with wool on or split, other than those excluded by Note 1(c) to this Chapter.

Only applies to fresh, chilled or treated hides.

Includes hides dried, dry salted, wet salted, or preserved by a process other than by tanning.

4103

Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not de-haired or split, other than those excluded by Note 1(b) or 1(c) to this Chapter.

Includes only fresh, chilled or treated hides.

Includes hides and skins of birds or fish and possibly game trophies.

4205 00 00

Other articles of leather or of composition leather.

Includes material for manufacture of dog chews.

Ex4206

Articles of gut (other than silkworm gut) of goldbeater’s skin, of bladders or of tendons.

Also includes material for manufacture dog chews.

Ex4301

Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings, suitable for furriers’ use), other than raw hides and skins of headings 4101, 4102 or 4103.

Of birds or ungulates only.

4301 (30 00)

Of lamb, the following: Astrakhan, Broadtail, Caracul, Persian and similar lamb, Indian, Chinese, Mongolian, or Tibetan lamb, whole, with or without the head, tail, or paws.

Additional selection requirements for hides and skins of ungulates are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VI.

4301 (80 80)

Other

Of birds or ungulates only.

4301 (90 00)

Heads Tails paws and other pieces or cuttings suitable for furriers use.

For headings 5101-5103. Additional selection requirements for wool, pig bristles, feathers and parts of feathers are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VIII.

‘Unprocessed’ is as defined for the relevant product in Annex I to the above Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

5101

Wool, not carded or combed.

Unprocessed wool

5102

Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed.

Unprocessed hair

Ex5103

Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but excluding garneted stock.

Unprocessed wool

5103 (10 10)

Not carbonised noils of wool.

Unprocessed wool

Ex9508

Roundabouts, swings shooting galleries and other fairground amusements; travelling circuses and travelling menageries; travelling theatres.

Circuses and menageries with live animals.

9508 10

Travelling circuses and travelling menageries.

Circuses and menageries with live animals.

Ex97050000

Collections and collectors’ pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or numismatic interest.

Animal derived products only.

Additional selection requirements for game trophies are laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VII.

Excludes game trophies from ungulates or birds having undergone a complete taxidermy treatment ensuring their preservation at ambient temperatures and game trophies from other species than ungulates and birds (whether treated or untreated).