Order No. 331 on veterinary monitoring of imported animal-origin food.

This Order implements regulations of any import or/and transit in Denmark of animal food-stuff and other food of animal origin to be controlled by customs veterinarians for commercial, private and/or test purposes. It applies to ships and aircrafts of developing countries in Danish ports and landing at Danish airports. Special inspection at borders shall take place for fish, fish products and meat. The procedures must observe national and EU standards of import from trade areas and laboratory tests shall confirm approval of import thereof. Food must be accompanied by a health certificate or specially designed commercial documents in cases of suspect animal health followed by registration. Trading country include EU country, Norway, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino as well as Faroe Islands and Iceland (for fish and fishery products, bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine snails). These countries collectively designate the trade area. The following are not included in the trade area: Faroe Islands (fish and fishery products and bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine snails, however, trade), Greenland, Ceuta and Melilla in Spain, overseas territories and districts in France.
It consists of 14 Chapters: Scope and definitions (1); Trade (2); Import from developing countries (3); Import for free circulation of conforming food-stuff originating in developing countries (4); Import of non-harmonized food originating in developing countries (5); Transit and storage of non-conforming food-stuff originating in developing countries (6); Transportation of food from country to country with stops in or visiting Denmark (7); Returns (8); Private imports (9); Samples (10); Animal identification of bonded warehouses (11); Sealing (12); Transitional and waiver provisions (13); Criminal and entry into force provisions (14).
Appendix 1 - Part I (Food included in the Order) and Part II (Food NOT included in the Order).
Appendix 2 - List of Danish border inspection posts approved for the control of food.
Appendix 3 - Frequencies for veterinary checks on imported consignments.
Appendix 4 - Import conditions for harmonized food from developing countries.
Appendix 5 - Conditions for import of non-harmonized food from developing countries.
Appendix 6 - Model of the provisioning certificate.
Appendix 7 - Application for return/surrender of food.
Appendix 8 - Schedule for veterinaries designating companies as deposit sites in a free zone, customs warehouses, ship chandlers companies and specifically licensed warehouses.
Appendix 9 - Developing Countries List: Fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat of livestock animals.
Appendix 10 - Developing Countries List: Fresh meat and meat preparations of poultry.
Appendix 11 - Developing Countries List: Fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat of farmed and hunted wild mammals other than hares and rabbits.
Appendix 12 - Developing Countries List: Fresh meat and meat of wild feathered meat and farmed ostrich.
Appendix 13 - Developing Countries List: Meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines.
Appendix 14 - Developing Countries List: Frog legs and land snails.
Appendix 15 - Developing Countries List: Milk and dairy products.
Appendix 16 - Developing Countries List: Eggs in shell and heat-treated egg.
Appendix 17 - Developing Countries List: Fresh meat of rabbits and hares.
Appendix 18 - Developing Countries List: Honey and Royal jelly.
Appendix 19 - Developing Countries List: Fish and fishery products in any form, except bivalve molluscs (A), echinoderms, tunicates, marine snails.
Appendix 20 - Developing Countries List - bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine snails in any form.
Appendix 21 - Content of Appendixes.