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PART IU.K. INTRODUCTION

Title, commencement and extentU.K.

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2002, and shall come into force on 22nd May 2002.

(2) These Regulations shall extend to England.

InterpretationU.K.

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

(2) Products introduced into England from the Republic of Iceland, other than fishery products, are regarded as introduced from a third country.

(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a Community instrument is a reference to that instrument as amended on the date on which these Regulations are made.

(4) Any reference in these Regulations to a numbered regulation (with no corresponding reference to a specific instrument) or a numbered Part is a reference to the regulation or Part so numbered in these Regulations and any reference to a numbered Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to these Regulations so numbered.

Marginal Citations

M2OJ No. LI, 3.1.94, p.3.

M3OJ No. L302, 19.10.92, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 2700/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L311, 12.3.2000, p.17).

M4OJ No. L9, 15.1.93, p.33, as last amended by Commission Decision 96/32/EC (OJ No. L9, 12.1.1996).

M5OJ No. L62, 15.3.93, p.49, as last amended by Commission Decision 2001/7/EC (OJ No. L2, 5.1.2001, p.27).

M6OJ No. L24, 30.1.98, p.9.

M7OJ No. L46, 19.2.91, p.1, as last amended by Council Directive 98/45/EC (OJ No. L189, 3.7.98, p.12).

M8OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p.1, as last amended by Council Directive 97/79/EC (OJ No. L24, 30.1.98, p.31).

M9OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p.15, as last amended by Council Directive 97/79/EC (OJ No. L24, 30.1.98, p.31).

ExemptionsU.K.

3.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to products introduced into England from a third country with the previous written authorisation of the Secretary of State as trade samples, for exhibition or for particular studies or analyses.

(2) Part III, with the exception of regulations 15, 21 and 25, and parts IV to IX do not apply to products whose total weight does not exceed one kilogram introduced into England—

(a)in the personal luggage of a traveller and intended for his personal consumption; or

(b)by post or carrier and addressed to a private individual in the relevant territories otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample;

where such products either come from a third country or part of a third country which satisfies the conditions laid down in paragraph (3) or have undergone heat treatment in a hermetically sealed container to an Fo value of 3.00 or more.

(3) The conditions referred to in paragraph (2) are that the third country or part of a third country—

(a)appears on a list of third countries or parts of third countries from which member States shall authorise the importation of the product or products concerned, established by a Community instrument in force on the date on which these Regulations are made; and

(b)is not one from which importation of the product or products concerned is prohibited by any Community instrument in force on that date.