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ANNEX IU.K. LIST OF ANIMALS, PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, GERMINAL PRODUCTS, ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS AND DERIVED PRODUCTS AND HAY AND STRAW SUBJECT TO OFFICIAL CONTROLS AT BORDER CONTROL POSTS AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3

CHAPTER 5U.K. Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

General remarks U.K.

Specific requirements for certain products in this chapter are laid down in Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011:

Row 7: pig bristles

Row 8: untreated wool and hair produced from animals other than those of the porcine species

Row 9: treated feathers, parts of feathers and down.

Notes to Chapter 5 (extract from the Notes to this Chapter of the CN) U.K.

1.This chapter does not cover:
(a)

edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);

(b)

hides or skins (including furskins), other than goods of heading 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 0511 (Chapter 41 or 43);

(c)

animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or

(d)

prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).

3.Throughout the nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are regarded as ‘ivory’.
4.Throughout the nomenclature, the expression ‘horsehair’ means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals. Heading 0511 covers, inter alia, horsehair and horsehair waste, whether or not put up as a layer with or without supporting material.

Extract from the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes U.K.

Heading 0505 covers

(1)

Skins and other parts of birds (e.g., heads, wings) with their feathers or down, and

(2)

Feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges), and down,

provided they are either unworked, or merely cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation but not otherwise worked or mounted.

Heading 0505 also covers powder, meal and waste of feathers or parts of feathers.

CN codeDescriptionQualification and explanation
(1)(2)(3)
0502 10 00Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and hair and waste thereofAll, treated and untreated.
0504 00 00Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smokedAll, covers stomachs, bladders and intestines cleaned salted dried or heated of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine, or of poultry origin.
ex 0505Skins 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, including game trophies of birds, but 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.

Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 prohibits the importation into and transit through the Union of untreated feathers and parts of feathers and down.

Official controls are applicable for feathers independent from their treatment as referred to in point C of Chapter VII of Annex XIII to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

Further specific requirements for game trophies are laid down in Section 5 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

Section 6 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 covers feathers used for stuffing, down, raw or other feathers.

0506Bones 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

Covers bones used as dog chews and bones for the production of gelatine or of collagen, if derived from carcasses that have been slaughtered for human consumption.

Bone flour for human consumption is covered under heading 0410.

Specific requirements for such products not intended for human consumption are laid down in Row 6 (game trophies), in Row 11 (bones and bone products (excluding bone meal), horns and horn products (excluding horn meal) and hooves and hoof products (excluding hoof meal) for uses other than as feed material, organic fertiliser or soil improver) and in Row 12 (dog chews) of Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

0507Ivory, 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

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

Specific requirements for game trophies are laid down in Row 6 of Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

ex 0508 00 00Coral and similar materials, unworked or simply prepared but not otherwise worked; shells of molluscs, crustaceans or echinoderms and cuttle-bone, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape, powder and waste thereof

Empty shells for food use and use as raw material for glucosamine.

In addition, shells, including cuttle-bones, containing soft tissue and flesh as referred to in point (k)(i) of Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 are covered.

ex 0510 00 00Ambergris, 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

Ambergris and cantharides are excluded.

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

Dried glands and products are covered by heading 3001.

Specific requirements may be laid down in Row 14 of Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 for animal by-products for the manufacture of pet food other than raw pet food and of derived products for uses outside the feed chain (for pharmaceuticals and other technical products).

ex 0511Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption

All.

Covers genetic material (semen and embryos of animal origin such as of the bovine, ovine, caprine, equine and porcine species) and animal by-products of Categories 1 and 2 materials as referred to in Articles 8 and 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.

The following are examples of animal products falling within subheadings 0511 10 to 0511 99 :

0511 10 00 (bovine semen).

0511 91 (products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates): all, covers fish eggs for hatching, dead animals, animal by-products for the manufacture of pet food and for pharmaceuticals and other technical products. Covers dead animals referred to in Chapter 3, inedible or classed unfit for human consumption, for example, daphnids, known as water fleas, and other ostracoda or phyllopods, dried, for feeding aquarium fish; covers fish bait.

ex 0511 99 10 (sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste of raw hides and skins).

Official controls are necessary for hides and skins not treated as referred to in point C 2 of Chapter V of Annex XIII to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011, if in compliance with Article 41(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009.

ex 0511 99 31 (raw natural sponges of animal origin): all, if for human consumption; if not for human consumption, only those intended for pet food. Specific requirements for non-human consumption are set out in Row 12 of Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

ex 0511 99 39 (other than raw natural sponges of animal origin): all, if for human consumption; if not for human consumption, only those intended for pet food. Specific requirements for non-human consumption are set out in Row 12 of Table 2 in Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.

ex 0511 99 85 (other animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of Chapter 1, unfit for human consumption): Covers embryos, ova, semen and genetic material not covered in 0511 10 and of species other than bovine fall under this heading. Covers animal by-products for the manufacture of pet food or other technical products.

Covers untreated horsehair, apiculture products other than waxes for apiculture or technical use, spermaceti for technical use, dead animals referred to in Chapter 1 which are inedible or not for human consumption (for example: dogs, cats, insects), animal material where the essential characteristics have not been changed, and edible animal blood not derived from fish, for human consumption.