The Movement of Goods (Northern Ireland to Great Britain) (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Transitory Provision and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025

Movement of relevant goods into Great Britain from Northern Ireland: transitory provision

2.—(1) For the purposes of this regulation, a “relevant movement” is a movement of relevant goods, other than qualifying Northern Ireland goods, from Northern Ireland to Great Britain during the period beginning with the date on which these Regulations come into force until the end of the transitional staging period.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) to (5)—

(a) the legislation listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1, so far as it relates to the movement of relevant goods to Great Britain from a relevant third country (“a specified movement”), applies for the purposes of any regulatory check, control or administrative process relating to a relevant movement, subject to the derogations and modifications specified in the transitional import arrangements set out in the provisions of the legislation listed in column 2 of that table (as amended from time to time), as it applies in relation to a specified movement;

(b) any requirement in the rules referred to in Article 1(2) of the Official Controls Regulation (as amended from time to time), other than legislation listed in column 1 of the table in Schedule 1, for goods to be accompanied by a health certificate, phytosanitary certificate or other document for the purpose of official controls carried out for the verification of, or to facilitate the verification of, compliance with those rules applies in relation to a relevant movement as it applies in relation to a specified movement.

(3) Relevant goods moving in the course of a relevant movement may enter Great Britain through the following points of entry—

(a) as regards relevant goods referred to in Article 47(1)(a) of the Official Controls Regulation or exempted from Article 47(1) of the Official Controls Regulation in accordance with assimilated direct minor legislation or any regulations made under Article 48 of that Regulation, any point of entry;

(b) as regards relevant goods referred to in Article 47(1)(b) of the Official Controls Regulation—

(i) in relation to England, a border control post designated for goods of the category in question or Heysham;

(ii) in relation to Scotland and Wales, any point of entry;

(c) as regards relevant goods referred to in Article 47(1)(c) of the Official Controls Regulation, a border control post designated for goods of the category in question or any of the following ports—

(i) Cairnryan;

(ii) Fishguard;

(iii) Heysham;

(iv) Holyhead;

(d) as regards relevant goods referred to in Article 47(1)(d) of the Official Controls Regulation—

(i) a border control post designated for goods of the category in question;

(ii) Cairnryan;

(iii) Heysham; or

(iv) any point of entry in Wales.

(4) Official controls required by the competent authority to be carried out on relevant goods moving in the course of a relevant movement may be performed at a border control post, or, where such goods do not enter through a border control post, any other of the places specified in Article 44(3) of the Official Controls Regulation.

(5) Paragraph 2 of Annex 6 applies for the purposes of any movement which is a relevant movement as if for the definition of “appropriate frequency rate” there were substituted—

““appropriate frequency rate” in relation to the frequency of performance of official controls, means the frequency determined by the competent authority in accordance with the factors specified in Article 44(2) and published online;”.