The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006

Made: 13 June 2006

Coming into force: 15 June 2006

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PART 1 — Introduction

Title, application, commencement and interpretation

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Exception

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Enforcement

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PART 2 — Intra-Community Trade

Application of Part 2

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Exports

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Imports

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Transport of animals and animal products

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Dealers

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Approval of centres and teams for the purposes of Council Directive 92/65/EEC and of laboratories for the purposes of Council Directive 90/539/EEC

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Inspection and checking at destination

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Duties on consignees

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Assembly centres and slaughterhouses

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Illegal consignments

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PART 3 — Third Country Imports

Application of Part 3

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Official veterinarians

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Importation

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Places of import

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Import procedure

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Quarantine for captive birds

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Payment of fees

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Consignments constituting a danger to health

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Illegal consignments

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Arrival at the place of destination

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Post-import controls

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PART 4 — Imports Where Checks Have Been Carried Out in Another Member State

Application of Part 4

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Imports

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Import procedure

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PART 5 — General

Outbreaks of disease in other states

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Notification of decisions

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Powers of inspectors

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Recovery of expenses

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Obstruction

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Offences by bodies corporate

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Penalties

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Transitional arrangements and disapplication of provisions

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Revocation

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SCHEDULE 1 — Amendments to Council Directives 90/425/EEC and 91/496/EEC

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SCHEDULE 2 — Border Inspection Posts

Border inspection post	Animals that may be imported
(i)Ungulates include registered equidae as defined in Council Directive 90/426/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 42 as last amended by Council Directive 2006/104/EC, OJ No. L363, 20.12.2006, p.352).	(i)Ungulates include registered equidae as defined in Council Directive 90/426/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 42 as last amended by Council Directive 2006/104/EC, OJ No. L363, 20.12.2006, p.352).
(ii)Stansted Airport is not a border inspection post for any species of animal specified in the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/2211).	(ii)Stansted Airport is not a border inspection post for any species of animal specified in the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974 (S.I. 1974/2211).
Gatwick Airport	All animals other than ungulates
Heathrow Airport	All animals
Manchester Airport	Live fish, reptiles, invertebrates
Stansted Airport	Ungulates

SCHEDULE 3 — Intra-Community trade: legislation and additional requirements

PART I — LEGISLATION IN RELATION TO INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE

Bovine animals and swine

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Instrument: Council Directive 64/432/EEC on health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine as replaced by the Annex to Council Directive 97/12/EC (OJ No. L109, 25.4.97, p. 1), and as subsequently amended by—

• Council Directive 98/46/EC (OJ No. L198, 15.7.98, p. 22);

• Council Directive 98/99/EC (OJ No. L358, 31.12.98, p. 107);

• Commission Decision 98/621/EC (OJ No. L296, 5.11.98, p. 15);

• Directive 2000/15/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L105, 3.5.2000, p. 34);

• Directive 2000/20/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L163, 4.7.2000, p. 35);

• Commission Decision 2001/298/EC (OJ No. L102, 12.4.2001, p. 63);

• Commission Regulation (EC) No. 535/2002 (OJ No. L80, 23.3.2002, p. 22);

• Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1226/2002 (OJ No. L179, 9.7.2002, p. 13);

• Council Regulation (EC) No. 21/2004 (OJ No. L5, 9.1.2004, p. 8);

• Commission Decision 2004/226/EC (OJ No. L68, 6.3.2004, p. 36); and

• the European International Instruments.

Bovine semen

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Instrument: Council Directive 88/407/EEC laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the bovine species (OJ No. L194, 22.7.88, p. 10), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 90/120/EEC (OJ No. L71, 17.3.90, p. 37);

• Council Directive 90/425/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29);

• Council Directive 93/60/EEC (OJ No. L186, 28.7.93, p. 28);

• Council Directive 2003/43/EC (OJ No. L143, 11.6.2003, p. 23);

• Commission Decision 2004/205/EC (OJ No. L65, 3.3.2004, p. 23);

• Commission Decision 2004/101/EC (OJ No. L30, 4.2.2004, p. 15); and

• the European international instruments.

Bovine embryos

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Instrument: Council Directive 89/556/EEC on animal health conditions concerning intra-Community trade in and importation from third countries of embryos of domestic animals of the bovine species (OJ No. L302, 19.10.89, p. 1), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 90/425/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29);

• Council Directive 93/52/EEC (OJ No. L175, 19.7.93, p. 21);

• Commission Decision 94/113/EC (OJ No. L53, 24.2.94, p. 23);

• Commission Decision 2004/205/EC (OJ No. L65, 3.3.2004, p. 23); and

• the European international instruments.

Equidae

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Instrument: Council Directive 90/426/EEC on health conditions governing the movement of equidae and their import from third countries (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 42), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 90/425/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29);

• Council Directive 90/427/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 55)

• Council Directive 91/496/EEC (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 56);

• Council Directive 92/36/EEC (OJ No. L157, 10.6.92, p. 28);

• Commission Decision 92/130/EEC (OJ No. L47, 22.2.92, p. 26);

• Commission Decision 93/623/EEC (OJ No. L298, 3.12.93, p. 45) as amended by Commission Decision 2000/68/EC (OJ No. L23, 28.1.2000, p. 72);

• Commission Decision 2001/298/EC (OJ No. L102, 12.4.2001, p. 63);

• Commission Decision 2002/160/EC (OJ No. L53, 23.2.2002, p. 37); and

• the European international instruments.

Porcine Semen

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Instrument: Council Directive 90/429/EEC laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the porcine species (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 62) and Commission Decision 99/608/EC (OJ No. L242, 14.9.99, p. 20), as amended by, and as read with—

• Commission Decision 99/608/EC (OJ No. L242, 14.9.1999, p. 20);

• Commission Decision 2000/39/EC (OJ No. L13, 19.1.2000, p. 21);

• Commission Decision 2004/205/EC (OJ No. L65, 3.3.2004, p. 23); and

• the European international instruments.

Poultry and hatching eggs

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Instrument: Council Directive 90/539/EEC on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries of poultry and hatching eggs (OJ No. L303, 31.10.90, p. 6), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 90/425/EEC (OJ No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29);

• Council Directive 91/496/EEC (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 56);

• Council Directive 92/65/EEC (OJ No. L268, 14.9.92, p. 54);

• Commission Decision 92/340/EEC (OJ No. L188, 8.7.92, p. 34);

• Commission Decision 92/369/EEC (OJ No. L195, 14.7.92, p. 25);

• Council Directive 93/120/EEC (OJ No. L340, 31.12.93, p. 35);

• Council Decision 95/410/EC (OJ No. L243, 11.10.95, p. 25) as amended by Council Decision 98/227/EC (OJ No. L87, 21.3.98, p. 14);

• Commission Decision 97/278/EC (OJ No. L110, 26.4.97, p. 77);

• Council Directive 99/90/EC (OJ No. L300, 23.11.1999, p. 19);

• Commission Decision 2000/505/EC (OJ No. L201, 9.8.2000, p. 8);

• Commission Decision 2001/867/EC (OJ No. L323, 7.12.2001, p. 29);

• Commission Decision 2003/644/EC (OJ No. L228, 12.9.2003, p. 29);

• Commission Decision 2004/235/EC (OJ No. L72, 11.3.2004, p. 86); and

• the European International instruments.

Animal waste

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Fish

Farmed fish

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Fish other than farmed fish

• (2) Instrument: Council Directive 91/493/EEC laying down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of fishery products (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 15), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 92/48/EEC (OJ No. L187, 7.7.92, p. 41), laying down the minimum hygiene rules applicable to fishery products caught on board certain vessels in accordance with Article 3(1) (a) (I) of Council Directive 91/493/EEC;

• Council Directive 95/71/EC (OJ No. L332, 30.12.95, p. 40);

• Council Directive 97/79/EC (OJ No. L24, 30.1.98, p. 310); and

• the European international instruments.

• Relevant provision in that instrument: Article 4.

Live Bivalve molluscs

• (3) Instrument: Council Directive 91/492/EEC laying down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of live shellfish (OJ No. L268, 24.9.91, p. 1), as amended by, and as read with—

• Council Directive 97/61/EC (OJ No. L295, 29.10.97, p. 35); and

• the European international instruments.

• Relevant provisions in that instrument: Articles 3(1)(a)—(i), 3(2), 4, 7, 8, and 9.

Ovine and caprine animals

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Other animals, semen, ova and embryos

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Pathogens

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Pure-bred animals of the bovine species

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