Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009Show full title

Council Regulation (EC) No 1186/2009 of 16 November 2009 setting up a Community system of reliefs from customs duty (codified version)

Article 54U.K.

1.Subject to Article 55, the following shall be admitted free of import duties:

(a)therapeutic substances of human origin;

(b)blood-grouping reagents;

(c)tissue-typing reagents.

2.For the purposes of paragraph 1:

(a)‘therapeutic substances of human origin’ means human blood and its derivatives (whole human blood, dried human plasma, human albumin and fixed solutions of human plasma protein, human immunoglobulin and human fibrinogen);

(b)‘blood-grouping reagents’ means all reagents, whether of human, animal, plant or other origin used for blood-type grouping and for the detection of blood incompatibilities;

(c)‘tissue-typing reagents’ means all reagents whether of human, animal, plant or other origin used for the determination of human tissue-types.