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Order No. 406 on veterinary control of imports of food of animal-origin and penalties for the violation of related EU legislation.

Country
Denmark
Type of law
Regulation
Source
FAO , FAOLEX
Abstract
This Order lays down rules for the import of animal-food and the application of veterinary controls at border posts. It also covers information exchange in connection with the arrival of ships from third countries in Danish ports and landing of aircraft from third countries in Danish airports, and lays down penalties for violating EU legislation relating to veterinary controls.The purpose of this Order is to ensure that food is accompanied by the required documentation. Food which does not adhere to EU production and marketing rules may be imported only after prior permission from the Food Agency authorities.
The Order consists of 16 Chapters and 20 Annexes: Scope and definition (1); Trade (2); Imports (3); Imports for free circulation of conforming foodstuff originating in third countries (4); Import of non-harmonized food originating in third countries (5); Transit and storage of non-conforming foodstuff originating in third countries (6); Transport of foodstuffs from third countries to third countries in means of transport which stop in or approach Denmark for transshipment (7); Reimports (8); Private imports (9); Samples etc. (10); Veterinary designation of warehouses in free zones and ship provisioning companies as well as customs warehouses, etc. for temporary storage of non-compliant foods (11); Sealing (12); Requisition or seizing of consignments (13); Transition and waiver provisions (14); Penalties (15); Entry into force (16).
Annex 1 - Food covered by this Order (Part I). Food NOT covered by this Order (Part II).
Annex 2 - List of Danish border inspection posts approved for the control of food.
Annex 3 - Frequencies for veterinary controls on imported consignments.
Annex 4 - Conditions for import, transit or non-compliant storage of harmonized foods from third countries.
Annex 5 - Conditions for import of non-harmonized food from third countries
Annex 6 - Model of the provisioning certificate.
Annex 7 - Application for returning of food.
Annex 8 - Schedule for veterinary designated companies as stock in a free zone, customs warehouses, ship provisioning companies and specifically licensed warehouses.
Annex 9 - Third Country List (TCL): Fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat of livestock.
Annex 10 - TCL: Fresh meat and prepared meat of poultry and farmed featherd game, other than meat of farmed ostriches.
Annex 11 - TCL: Fresh meat, minced meat, meat preparations and mechanically separated meat of farmed and wild game mammals other than hares and rabbits.
Annex 12 - TCL: Fresh meat and meat of wild feathered game meat and farmed ratites (ostrich).
Annex 13 - TCL: Meat products and treated stomachs, bladders and intestines.
Annex 14 - TCL: Frog legs and land snails.
Annex 15 - TCL: Milk, dairy products, colostrum * and colostrum based products *.
Annex 16 - TCL: Shell and cooked egg.
Annex 17 - Fresh meat from rabbits and hares.
Annex 18 - TCL: Honey, royal jelly and other beekeeping products for human consumption.
Annex 19 - TCL: Fish and fishery products in any form, excluding bivalve molluscs (A), echinoderms, tunicates, marine snails.
Annex 20 - TCL: Bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine snails in any form.
Attached files
http://faolex.fao.org/docs/pdf/den195848.pdf
Web site
http://www.retsinformation.dk
Date of text
Entry into force notes
This Order enters into force on 13 April 2019.
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
Bekendtg relse om veterin rkontrol ved indf rsel af animalske f devarer og om straffebestemmelser for overtr delse af relaterede EU-retsakter
Implements
Food Act (No. 46 of 2017).
Animal Keeping Act (LBK no. 9 of 06/01/2022).
Council Directive 89/662/EEC concerning veterinary checks in intra-Community trade with a view to the completion of the internal market.
Council Directive 92/118/EEC 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
Council Directive 96/23/EC on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products and repealing Directives 85/358/EEC and 86/469/EEC and Decisions 89/187/EEC and 91/664/EEC.
Council Directive 97/78/EC laying down the principles governing the organization of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries.
Council Directive 2002/99/EC laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption.
Council Directive 2006/88/EC on animal health requirements for aquaculture animals and products thereof, and on the prevention and control of certain diseases in aquatic animals.
Commission Decision 2007/275/EC concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC.
Commission Decision 2011/163/EU on the approval of plans submitted by third countries in accordance with Article 29 of Council Directive 96/23/EC.
Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2074/2005 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.
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements.
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1251/2008 implementing Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards conditions and certification requirements for the placing on the market and the import into the Community of aquaculture animals and products thereof and laying down a list of vector species.
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 119/2009 laying down a list of third countries or parts thereof, for imports into, or transit through, the Community of meat of wild leporidae, of certain wild land mammals and of farmed rabbits and the veterinary certification requirements.
Commission Regulation (EC) No. 206/2009 on the introduction into the Community of personal consignments of products of animal origin and amending Regulation (EC) No. 136/2004.
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1099/2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing.
Commission Regulation (EU) No. 206/2010 laying down lists of third countries, territories or parts thereof authorised for the introduction into the European Union of certain animals and fresh meat and the veterinary certification requirements.
Commission Regulation (EU) No. 605/2010 laying down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for the introduction into the European Union of raw milk and dairy products intended for human consumption.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 931/2011 on the traceability requirements set by Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council for food of animal origin.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/759 drawing up lists of third countries, parts of third countries and territories from which Member States are to authorise the introduction into the Union of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, laying down certificate requirements, amending Regulation (EC) No. 2074/2005 and repealing Decision 2003/812/EC.
Repeals
Order No. 331 on veterinary monitoring of imported animal-origin food.