F1PART 2IMPORTS FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

Requirements for certificates6.

F2A1

Subject to Article 7 and to paragraph (6), no person may bring any notifiable relevant material into a point of entry that is located in Northern Ireland unless the material is accompanied by one of the following certificates which certifies that the material meets the prescribed requirements—

(a)

a phytosanitary certificate issued in the country in which that material originates or in the country from which it was consigned;

(b)

where paragraph (2) applies, by a phytosanitary certificate for re-export.

F3(1)

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(2)

Where relevant material consigned to Northern Ireland via any third country by way of transit has been split up, combined with other consignments or repackaged, that material shall be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate for re-export issued in the country of transit.

F4(3)

Where relevant material consigned to Northern Ireland via any third country by way of transit—

  1. (a)

    has or may have been exposed to infection or contamination by any pest;

  2. (b)

    no longer remains the same material specified in the phytosanitary certificate which accompanies it; or

  3. (c)

    has been processed so as to change its nature,

the phytosanitary certificate required to accompany it shall be issued in the country of transit

F5(4)

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(5)

Where a phytosanitary certificate is required by paragraph (2) to be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate for re-export, it may consist of a copy of the certificate certified as a true copy of the original by an authorised officer but in all other cases shall be the original certificate.

(6)

Provided the material is transported in such a way as to prevent the accidental escape of pests and does not undergo any change in its customs status, F6paragraph (A1) and paragraph (1) do does not apply to—

(a)

relevant material landed in Northern Ireland which, under appropriate customs procedures, is in the course of its consignment between two third countries; or

(b)

relevant material F7brought into Northern Ireland which has been consigned to Northern Ireland from another part of the F8United Kingdom via a third country.

F9(7)

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