Directives on the importation of products of animal origin provide detailed rules governing checks at the point of origin and reinforce checks to be performed by establishments of origin and by official veterinarians designated by authorities.<\/p>\n
The checks must cover the marking and labelling of products, provision of necessary documentation and certificate in accordance with EU rules for the destination in question.<\/p>\n
The directive lays down procedures for checks on arrival at the destination.\u00a0 They may take the form of non-discriminatory spot checks.\u00a0 Where there are grounds for suspecting infringement checks may be carried out during transportation.\u00a0 The rules to be followed by consignees, procedures governing checks at the point of entry and procedures to be implied where checks reveal an irregularity or serious threat to public or animal health are laid down.<\/p>\n
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Import of live animals. There are a number of directives dealing with both the import and transit of animals.\u00a0 One category of directives deals with imports from outside the EU, whereas another category deal with imports between EU states.\u00a0 Technically, imports between EU states are described as intra-EU trade whereas imports refer to imports from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12194"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20210,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12194\/revisions\/20210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}