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25.—(1) Where the Scottish Ministers or Food Standards Scotland—
(a)have reasonable grounds for suspecting the existence of a disease, zoonosis, phenomenon or circumstance in a country outside the United Kingdom, such that animals or products originating from the whole or part of the country concerned are liable to pose risk to human or animal health; or
(b)are of the opinion that there is serious non-compliance with official control rules under the EU Regulation in relation to imports from the European Union, or equivalent official controls in countries other than a member State,
the Scottish Ministers or Food Standards Scotland may publish a written declaration of the special measures necessary in Scotland in order to contain the risk to human or animal health or the risk of non-compliant animals or products entering into Scotland.
(2) The special measures that the Scottish Ministers or Food Standards Scotland may require include—
(a)suspension of entry into Scotland of any animal or product originating in or dispatched from the whole or part of the country concerned;
(b)imposition of conditions requiring that any animals or products—
(i)prior to dispatch, or on arrival, are made the subject of specific treatment or controls;
(ii)be accompanied by an official certificate, an official attestation, or any other evidence (in any format that may be specified) that any import from the European Union complies with established official control rules under the EU Regulation or equivalent rules in other countries;
(c)such other measures as the Scottish Ministers or Food Standards Scotland consider necessary to contain the risk.
(3) The declaration must be published in such manner as the Scottish Ministers or Food Standards Scotland (as the case may be) think fit and may be amended or revoked by further declaration at any time.
(4) No person may import anything in breach of such a declaration.]
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 25 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Agriculture etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/412), regs. 1(1), 24(22)
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