The Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011

Safeguard measures U.K.

[F1 29.— (1) Where the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency—

(a) has 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) is 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 control rules in countries other than a member State,

the Secretary of State or the Agency may publish a written declaration of the special measures necessary in order to contain the risk to human or animal health or the risk of non-compliant animals or products entering the United Kingdom.

(2) The special measures that Secretary of State or the Agency may require include—

(a) suspension of entry 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 and any relevant Implementing Regulations and Delegated Regulations made under it or equivalent rules in other countries;

(c) such other measures as the Secretary of State or the Agency considers necessary to contain the risk.

(3) The declaration must be published in such manner as the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency (as the case may be) thinks fit and may be amended or revoked by further declaration at any time.

(4) No person may import anything into the United Kingdom in breach of any measures mentioned in any such declaration.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 29 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1488), regs. 1(1), 26(23)