Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011Show full title

Article 26 U.K. Placing on the market, including importation, and export of certain Category 1 materials

The competent authority may authorise the placing on the market, including the importation, and the export of hides and skins derived from animals which have been submitted to an illegal treatment as defined in Article 1(2)(d) of Directive 96/22/EC [F1 , reading that Article as if for references to “Community legislation” there were substituted references to “retained EU law], and of ruminant intestines with or without content and of bones and bone products containing vertebral column and skull, subject to compliance with the following requirements:

(a)

those materials must not be Category 1 materials derived from any of the following animals:

(i)

animals suspected of being infected by a TSE in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 999/2001;

(ii)

animals in which the presence of a TSE has been officially confirmed;

(iii)

animals killed in the context of TSE eradication measures;

(b)

those materials must not be intended for any of the following uses:

(i)

feeding;

(ii)

application to land from which farmed animals are fed;

(iii)

the manufacture of:

• cosmetic products as defined in [F2 Article 2(1)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009];

• active implantable medical devices as defined in Article 1(2)(c) of Directive 90/385/EEC;

• medical devices as defined in Article 1(2)(a) of Directive 93/42/EEC;

• in vitro diagnostic medical devices as defined in Article 1(2)(b) of Directive 98/79/EC;

• veterinary medicinal products as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2001/82/EC;

• medicinal products as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2001/83/EC;

(c)

the materials must be imported with a label and must comply with the specific requirements for certain movements of animal by-products set out in Section 1 of Chapter IV of Annex XIV hereto;

(d)

the materials must be imported in accordance with sanitary certification requirements laid down in national legislation [F3 ;]

(e)

[F4 the materials originating from [F5 Great Britain] and returning to [F6 Great Britain] following a refusal of entry by a third country, must comply with the specific requirements set out in Chapter VI of Annex XIV.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 26 substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 13(25)(a)

F2 Words in Art. 26(b)(iii) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 13(25)(b)

F3 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/797 of 17 June 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for animal by-products and derived products originating from, and returning to, the Union following refusal of entry by a third country (Text with EEA relevance).

F4 Inserted by Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/797 of 17 June 2020 amending Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 as regards requirements for animal by-products and derived products originating from, and returning to, the Union following refusal of entry by a third country (Text with EEA relevance).

F5 Words in Art. 26(e) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 13(25)(c)(i)

F6 Words in Art. 26(e) substituted (E.W.S.) (31.12.2020) by The Animals, Aquatic Animal Health, Invasive Alien Species, Plant Propagating Material and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1388), regs. 1(2)(c), 13(25)(c)(ii)