The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

Dispatch of fresh meat, minced meat and meat preparations

6.—(1) No person shall dispatch any fresh meat of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulate coming from the restricted area or obtained from animals originating in that area.

(2) In paragraph (1), the reference to “fresh meat” includes minced meat and meat preparations to which Council Directive 94/65/EC (laying down the requirements for the production and placing on the market of minced meat and meat preparations (1))applies.

(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply in relation to meat—

(a) marked with the health mark in accordance with Chapter XI of Annex I to Council Directive 64/433/EEC (on health problems affecting the production and marketing of meat products and certain other products of animal origin(2)) or, in the case of meat from other biungulates, in Chapter III of Annex I to Council Directive 91/495/EEC (concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat(3));

(b) which is clearly identified;

(c) which has been transported and stored since the date of production separately from meat, minced meat and meat preparations not destined for dispatch; and

(d) which was—

(i) obtained before 1st February 2001; or

(ii) derived from animals slaughtered or, in the case of meat obtained from wild game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease, killed in Great Britain after 19th October 2001; or

(iii) derived from animals reared and slaughtered or, in the case of meat obtained from wild game of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease, killed outside Great Britain.

(4) Meat consigned to another member State shall be accompanied by an official certificate prepared by the National Assembly, the Secretary of State or the Minister and signed by a person appointed as an officer of the kind specified in the certificate which bears the following words—

“Meat conforming to Commission Decision 2001/740/EC of 19th October 2001 concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom”.

(1)

OJ No. L368, 31.12.94, p. 10.

(2)

OJ No.L121, 27.9.1964, p.2012/64; Directive updated by Directive 91/497/EEC (OJ No L268, 24.9.1991, p. 69) as last amended by Directive 95/23/EC (OJ No. L243, 11.10.1995, p. 7).

(3)

OJ No. L268, 24.09.1991, p.41 as last amended by Council Directive 1994/65/EC (OJ No. L368, 31.12.1994 p.10).