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Article 1U.K.

Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 5 is replaced by the following:

Article 5Conditions for imports and transit

1.Commodities imported into and transiting through the Union shall comply with the following:

(a)the conditions laid down in Articles 6 and 7 and in Chapter III;

(b)the additional guarantees, as specified in column 5 of the table in Part 1 of Annex I;

(c)the specific conditions set out in column 6, and where appropriate, the closing dates set out in column 6A and the opening dates set out in column 6B, of the table in Part 1 of Annex I;

(d)the conditions in relation to the approval of a salmonella control programme and related restrictions which shall only apply when indicated in the appropriate column of the table in Part 1 of Annex I;

(e)the animal health additional guarantees, where required by the Member State of destination and referred to in the certificate.

2.The following conditions set out in paragraph 1 shall not apply to single consignments of less than 20 units of poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof:

(a)point (b);

(b)point (d) when destined for primary production of poultry for private domestic use or leading to the direct supply, by the producer, of small quantities of primary products as referred to in Article 1(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003.

(2)

Article 14 is replaced by the following:

Article 14Specific conditions for imports of poultry, hatching eggs and day-old chicks

1.In addition to the conditions laid down in Chapters II and III, the following specific conditions shall apply to imports of:

(a)breeding and productive poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof, the requirements set out in Annex VIII;

(b)ratites for breeding and production, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof, the requirements set out in Annex IX.

2.The specific conditions referred to in paragraph 1(a) and (b) shall not apply to single consignments of less than 20 units of poultry other than ratites, hatching eggs and day-old chicks thereof. However, the requirements applicable after import set out in Section II of Annex VIII shall apply to those consignments.

(3)

Annexes I, III, VIII and IX are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 December 2015.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude Juncker