International trade: Importer Information Notes - Legislation
European Community legislation
Commission Directive 90/539/EEC 
(328 KB) of 15 October 1990
on animal health conditions governing intra-Community trade in, and imports from third countries
of, poultry and hatching eggs.
Balai directive 92/65/EEC (328 KB) of 13 July 1992 - laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of
animals, semen, ova and embryos not subject to animal health requirements laid down in specific
Community rules referred to in Annex A (I) to Directive 90/425/EEC.
Council Directive 92/118/EEC (127 KB) of 17 December 1992 laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A (I) to Directive 89/662/EEC and, as regards pathogens, to Directive 90/425/EEC.
Commission Decision 2006/696/EC (2.52 MB - Warning: this is a large file) laying down a list of third countries from which poultry, hatching eggs, day-old chicks, meat of poultry, ratites and wild game-birds, eggs and egg products and specified pathogen-free eggs may be imported into and transit through the Community and the applicable veterinary certification conditions, and amending Decisions 93/342/EEC, 2000/585/EC and 2003/812/EC.
Council
Directive 2002/99/EC
(228 KB) laying down the animal health rules governing the production,
processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin
for human consumption.
Regulation
(EC) No 178/2002
(224 KB) laying down the general principles and requirements of food law,
establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures
in matters of food safety.
Regulation
(EC) No 1774/2002
(1.72 MB - Warning: this is a large file) laying down
health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption.
This is the latest consolidated version of EC Regulation 1774/2002 available on the EU website. This legislation must be read with the following instruments which have been published since it was produced:
Regulation (EC) No. 523/2008 amending Annexes VIII, X and XI to Regulation 1774/2002 as regards the import of blood products for the manufacture of technical products.
Regulation (EC) No. 777/2008 amending Annexes I, V and VII to EC Regulation 1774/2002 as regards the definition for blood meal, the location of processing plants and mammalian processed animal protein.
Regulation
(EC) No 668/2004
(6.35 MB - Warning: this is a very large file) amending
certain Annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament
and of the Council, as regards the importation from third countries of
animal by-products.
Regulation
(EC) No 852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs and Corrigendum
Regulation
(EC) No 853/2004 laying down specific rules for food of animal origin,
as last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1662/2006
(87 KB).
Commission Regulation (EC) No 829/2007 of 28 June 2007 amending Annexes I, II, VII, VIII, X and XI to Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the placing on the market of certain animal by-products (Text with EEA relevance).
Regulation
(EC) No 854/2004 laying down specific rules for the organisation of
official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption.
Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004 on official controls performed to ensure the verification
of compliance with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare
rules.
Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005
(452 KB) on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs.
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Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005
(496 KB) laying down implementing measures for certain products under
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council
and for the organisation of official controls under Regulation (EC) No
854/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation
(EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council, derogating
from Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the European Parliament and of the
Council and amending Regulations (EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004
(see above), as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1664/2006
(1.42 MB - Warning: this is a large file).
Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2075/2005
(448 KB) laying down specific rules on official controls for Trichinella
in meat, as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1665/2006
(67 KB).
Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2076/2005
(384 KB) laying down transitional arrangements for the implementation
of Regulations (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 854/2004 and (EC) No 882/2004
of the European Parliament and of the Council and amending Regulations
(EC) No 853/2004 and (EC) No 854/2004 (see above), as amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1666/2006
(67 KB).
Council
Directive 2004/41/EC
(52 KB) repealing certain Directives concerning food hygiene and health
conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products
of animal origin intended for human consumption and amending Directives
89/662/EEC and 92/118/EEC and Council Decision 95/408/EC.
Commission
Regulation (EC) No 599/2004
(784 KB) concerning the adoption of a harmonised model certificate and
inspection report linked to intra-Community trade in animals and products
of animal origin.
Council Decision 79/542/EEC drawing up a list of third countries or parts of third countries, and laying down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions, for importation into the Community of certain live animals and their fresh meat as last amended by Commission Decision 2008/752/EC (warning this is a large file). However, the legislation listed below for fresh red meat still applies for consignments certified prior to 31 December 2008:
Third country list
Part 1:
Commission Decision 2007/642/EC
In respect of Brazil, Commission Decision 2008/61/EC
Part 2:
Commission Decision 2006/259/EC (415 KB)
Health certification
Health certification for certain meat:
Commission
Decision 2004/212/EC (3.37 MB - Warning: this is a very large file)
There are special conditions for bovine meat from Brazil in accordance with Commission Decision 2008/61/EC (80 KB)
Health certification for sheep meat:
Commission
Decision 2004/620/EC (784 KB)
Health certification for bovine meat (see third country list, part 2
link above):
Commission Decision 2006/259/EC
Commission Decision 2007/777/EC Commission Decision 2007/777/EC laying down the animal and public health conditions and model certificate for imports of certain meat products and treated stomach, bladders and intestines for human consumption from third countries as amended by Commission Decision 2008/638/EC.
Commission
Decision 2004/415/EC
(76 KB) (health and veterinary conditions for farmed ratite meat transiting
or being stored in the Community).
Commission
Decision 2004/212/EC
(3.37 MB - Warning: this is a very large file) (health
certification for certain meat) and Commission
Decision 2004/620/EC
(784 KB) (health certification for certain meat).
Commission
Decision 94/984/EC laying down animal health conditions and veterinary
certificates for the importation of fresh poultry meat from certain third
countries, as amended by Commission
Decision 2004/118/EC
(207 KB) and Commission
Decision 2004/436/EC
(156 KB) (conditions for fresh poultry meat transiting or being stored
in Community).
Commission Decision 2004/432/EC (PDF 120KB) as last amended by Commission Decision 2008/772/EC (PDF 100KB) on the approval of residue monitoring plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Council Directive 96/23/EC.
Commission
Decision 2003/56/EC
(480 KB) on health certificates for the importation of live animals and
animal products from New Zealand, as last amended by Commission
Decision 2006/855/EC
(521 KB).
Commission
Decision 2006/854/EC
(164 KB) approving on behalf of the European Community amendments to Annexes
V and VIII to the Agreement between the European Community and New Zealand
on sanitary measures applicable to trade in live animals and animals products.
2007/61 - Decision No 1/2006 of the Joint Veterinary Committee created by an Agreement between the European Community and the Swiss Confederation on Trade in Agricultural Products.
Commission Decision 2006/7 (34 KB) EC Concerning certain protection measures in relation to imports of feathers from certain third countries As last amended by Commission Decision 2006/892 EC (37 KB)
Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down the rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 571/2008 and Regulation (EC) No. 746/2008 .
Commission Decision 2007/453/EC (37 KB) establishing the BSE status of Member States or third countries or regions thereof according to their BSE risk.
Commission
Decision 2004/438/EC
(1.43 MB - Warning: this is a large file) laying down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for introduction in the Community of heat-treated milk, milk based products and raw milk intended for human consumption as last amended by Commission Decision 2008/338/EC.
Council
Directive 97/78/EC
(170 KB) laying down principles governing the organisation of veterinary
checks on products entering the Community from third countries.
Commission
Decision 2000/572/EC
(48 KB) laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification
conditions for imports of meat preparations from third countries as amended
by Commission Decision 2008/592/EC .
Commission
Decision 2005/363/EC
(84 KB) concerning animal health protection measures against African swine
fever in Sardinia, Italy as amended by Commission
Decision 2005/494/EC
(36 KB).
Commission
Decision 2003/812/EC
(40 KB) drawing up a list of third countries from which Member States
are to authorise imports of certain products for human consumption subject
to Council Directive 92/118/EC (as amended).
Commission
Decision 97/467/EC
(152 KB) drawing up provisional lists of third country establishments
from which Member States authorize imports of rabbit meat and farmed game
meat (as amended).
Commission
Decision 97/468/EC
(76 KB) drawing up provisional list of third country establishments from
which Member States authorize imports of wild game (as amended).
Commission
Decision 2004/372/EC
(264 KB) amending Council Decision 79/542/EC as regards the animal health
conditions and veterinary certification for certain products transiting
or temporarily stored by the Community.
Commission
Decision 2001/731/EC
(144 KB) drawing up a list of third countries from which the Member States
authorise imports of bovine animals, swine, equidae, sheep and goats,
fresh meat and meat products, in particular in relation to New Caledonia
and the Islands of St Pierre and Miquelon.
Commission
Decision 2001/556/EC
(216 KB) drawing up provisional lists of third country establishments
from which Member States authorise imports of gelatine intended for human
consumption.
Commission Decision 2003/721/EC amending Council Directive 92/118/EEC as regards requirements for collagen intended for human consumption.
Commission
Decision 2003/863/EC
(524 KB) on health certificates for the importation of animal products
from the United States of America.
Commission Decision 1999/724/EC laying down animal health and public health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of products not subject to the said requirements laid down in specific Community rules.
Statutory Instruments
2006
No 2841 Agriculture, England The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2006.
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Page published: 9 January, 2006