Food (Brazil Nuts) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. No. 396 of 2003).

The Regulations implement Commission Decision 2003/493/EC imposing special conditions on the import of Brazil nuts in shell originating in or consigned from Brazil. These Regulations prohibit the importation of "Brazil nuts" (defined in regulation 2), except where: (i) they are accompanied by a Brazilian Government health certificate and the results of official sampling and analysis, the importation takes place only though a specified point of entry and each consignment or its constituent parts is identified with a code corresponding with that specified on the health certificate and the accompanying report containing the sampling and analysis results; (ii) they are subject to specified documentary checks; and (iii) each consignment is subjected to analysis for aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxin levels (reg. 3). They further prohibit the importation of Brazil nuts which left Brazil before 5 July 2003 and which are not accompanied by the documentation otherwise required, except where the importation takes place only through a specified point of entry and the operator can show, by sampling and analysis of the consignment in the prescribed manner, that they do not contain aflatoxin B1 or total aflatoxin above the legal prescribed maximum levels (reg. 3).