Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2003 (S.I. No. 3177 of 2003).

These Regulations consolidate the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) Regulations 2002, the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3206), and the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/812), and make a number of further amendments. The principal amendments are: the implementation of Commission Decision 2002/349/EC; the requirement for products which are refused entry into the Community (and which are not redispatched) to be disposed of in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council which has repealed Council Directive 90/667/EEC (regs. 21, 22, 24, 25, 26 and 43); the requirement for unused catering supplies from means of transport operating internationally to be disposed of in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 (reg. 29); where such unused catering supplies are disposed of by burial in a landfill, the requirement that they are disposed of only at a landfill approved in accordance with regulation 30; the inclusion of a new Part 5 which sets out (1) the mechanism for approving landfills which receive unused catering supplies, (2) the obligations upon operators of approved landfills, (3) the procedure for amending, suspending and revoking such approvals, and (4) the procedure for appealing against an amendment or a suspension; the revision of the procedure for appealing against veterinary charges paid to the Secretary of State or the Food Standards Agency (reg. 58), requiring amongst other things that the independent person shall not be an officer or servant of the Secretary of State or the Agency (unless the appellant consents), and that, if the appellant so requests, the hearing shall be in public and he shall be provided with a copy of the independent person's report; and the revision of Schedule 2.