The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2006 (revoked)

PART 10 U.K. Emergency Declarations

Disease outbreaks in third countries U.K.

61.—(1) Where the Secretary of State or the Agency learns of, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, the presence in any third country of—

(a) a disease referred to in Council Directive 82/894/EEC (on the notification of animal diseases within the Community)(1); or

(b) a zoonosis or other disease, phenomenon or circumstance liable to present a serious threat to animal or public health,

or if any other serious animal health or public health reason so warrants, he or it may by declaration suspend, or impose conditions on, the bringing into England of any product from the whole or any part of that third country.

(2) Such a declaration must—

(a) be in writing;

(b) be published in such a manner as the Secretary of State or the Agency, as the case may be, thinks fit; and

(c) must specify the products and the third country or part of the third country concerned.

(3) A declaration which imposes conditions on bringing any product from a third country or part of a third country into England must specify those conditions.

(4) Where a declaration is in force suspending the introduction of any product, no person may bring that product into England if it originates in the third country or part of the third country specified in the declaration.

(5) Where a declaration is in force imposing conditions on the introduction of any product, no person may bring that product into England if it originates in the third country or part of the third country specified in the declaration unless the product complies with the conditions specified in the declaration.

(6) A declaration may be modified, suspended or revoked by a further written declaration published, so far as is practicable, in the same manner and to the same extent as the original declaration.

(1)

OJ No. L378, 31.12.82, p. 58, as last amended by Commission Decision 2004/216/EC (OJ No. L67, 5.3.2004, p. 27).