TITLE IIU.K.F1OFFICIAL CONTROLS AND OTHER OFFICIAL ACTIVITIES ...

CHAPTER VU.K.Official controls on animals and goods entering [F2Great Britain]

Section IIU.K.Official controls at border control posts on animals and goods

Article 53U.K.Official controls not performed at border control posts

1.The [F3appropriate authority may make regulations] to supplement this Regulation concerning rules establishing the cases where and the conditions under which:

(a)identity checks and physical checks on consignments of the categories of animals and goods referred to in Article 47(1) may be performed by competent authorities at control points other than border control posts provided that those control points comply with the requirements provided for in Article 64(3) and in the implementing acts adopted in accordance with Article 64(4) [F4which take effect as retained direct EU legislation, or, as the case may be, regulations made under that Article];

(b)physical checks on consignments which have undergone documentary checks and identity checks at a border control post of first arrival into the [F5United Kingdom] may be performed at another border control post in a different [F6constituent territory of Great Britain];

(c)identity checks and physical checks on consignments which have undergone documentary checks at a border control post of first arrival into the [F7United Kingdom] may be performed at another border control post in a different [F8constituent territory of Great Britain];

(d)specific control tasks may be performed by customs authorities or other public authorities, insofar as those tasks are not already falling under the responsibility of those authorities, on:

(i)

consignments referred to in Article 65(2);

(ii)

passengers’ personal luggage;

(iii)

goods ordered by sales through distance contracts, including by telephone or via the internet;

(iv)

pet animals which meet the conditions laid down in Article 5 of Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council(1);

(e)documentary checks on consignments of plant, plant products and other objects referred to in point (c) of Article 47(1) may be performed at distance from a border control post.

2.Point (b) of Article 56(3), point (a) of Article 57(2), Article 59(1), points (a) and (d) of Article 60(1) and Articles 62 and 63 shall also apply to the control points referred to in point (a) of paragraph 1 of this Article.

Textual Amendments

Textual Amendments

Textual Amendments

(1)

Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on the non-commercial movement of pet animals and repealing Regulation (EC) No 998/2003 (OJ L 178, 28.6.2013, p. 1).