9.—(1) No person shall export hides and skins of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine and porcine species and other biungulates to another member State.
(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to hides and skins which were produced before 1st February 2001 or which conform to the requirements of paragraph 1(A) indents 2 to 5 or paragraph 1(B), indents 3 and 4 of Chapter 3 of Annex I to Directive 92/118/EEC (laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A(I) to Directive 1989/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 1990/425/EEC(1)). Care must be taken to separate effectively treated hides and skins from untreated hides and skins.
(3) The hides and skins must be accompanied by a certificate stating—
“Hides and skins conforming to Commission Decision adopted on 21st February 2001 [or the number of the Decision] concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.
O.J. No. L62, 15.3.1993, p. 49.