Info r mati o n p r o vided b y S ENASA for the r eco g niti o n o f Ar g e n t i n a  ́s Patagonia as a Re g ion com p rised
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### NATIONAL ANIMAL HEALTH AND AGRIFOOD QUALITY

SERVICE



## APPENDIX IV:

PROCEDURES FOLLOWED

AT PORTS OF ENTRY

April 200 3Infor m ati o n p r ov i d e d b y SENASA for t h e rec o g n iti o n of Ar g e n ti n a  ́s Patagonia as a R e g ion c o m p rised

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit POG NO. 1

General Operative Procedure No. 1, for the analysis of viability of imports of products, by-products and animal derivatives, destined to the Food Industry

1 Purpose : Describes the operational methodol ogy in order to evaluate the feasibility of the goods ́ entry through documentar y, physical and identity
control.

2 Reach : Determine the destination of the goods arrived at the Border
Control Point.

3 Definitions:

3.1. ACT (Proceedings ): it designates a document with a preestablished format and fields, signed by the official, and keeping it recorded. It will be always associated with an Instructive Form (INS), being part of this.

3.2. Importation Authorization : It is a copy of the document issued by the Coordination of Importation of Pr oducts (Direction of International Traffic, National Direction of Food and Agriculture Fiscalization), identified with its corresponding numeration and si gned by the official, extended in the name of the Responsible Importer regist ered in SENASA (with the data of the authorized goods, as No. of registry // country of origin and requirements
that should be stated in the In ternational Health Certificate).

3.3. Arrival notification : Is the original document issued by the area of SENASA empowered to th e effect, with its corresponding numeration, signature, and explanatory stamp of the working professional whose model is stated as appendix III of the Resolution 630/94 of SENASA

3.4. International Health Certificate: It is the certificate issued by the Health Authority of the exporti ng country recognized by SENASA, protecting the merchandise.

3.5. Identity control: it is the verification through ocular inspection, of the correspondence of the goods with th e documents or certificates of protection, as well as the presence a nd concordance of labels and other required identifications.

3.6. Documentary control : it is the examination of the certificates or documents that protect the goods arrived at the PFH.Infor m ati o n p r ov i d e d b y SENASA for t h e rec o g n iti o n of Ar g e n ti n a  ́s Patagonia as a R e g ion c o m p rised

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit 3.7. Physical control: it is the evidence of the orga noleptic characteristics of the goods, which can include the therma l control, and of the conditions of containers and hygienic sanitary of the burden. It includes when it might correspond, the sampling for laboratory test as well as the integrity and correlation of the seal-tags.

3.8. Copy of the approval of the label: Is a hardcopy of the documentation issued by the Coordination of Approva l of Food Products of the Office of the Director of dependent Food and Agriculture Quality of the
National Directorate of Food and Agriculture Control in order to approve the label of the goods, wh ere is stated the model of the aforementioned label, as well as the stamp of approval of such Coordination and signature and e xplanatory stamp of the working professional.

3.9. Establishment of destination : It is the establishment authorized in the Notification of arrival, where the good is sent.

3.10. FOR (Form): it designates a document of preestablished format and fields, in order to be comple ted by the Interested Party, for knowledge of the Intervening Opera tional Unit. It will be always associated with a Specific Operati onal Procedure (POE), being part of
this.

3.11. INS (Instructions) : it is the detailed descri ption of a given action, identified in a Specific Operational Procedure (POE).

3.12. Interested Party : It designates that person in charge of processing the present operative before the Intervening Operational Unit.

3.13. Disembarkation Permission : It is the one duplicated of the PTR whose recipient is the General Bureau of Customhouses (DGA).

3.14. Restricted Transit Permission (PTR) : It is original of the document that extends in triplicate th e Intervening Operational Unit, in order to protect the transfer of th e goods in the capacity of intervened, up to the authorized establishment.

3.15. POE (Specific Operational Procedure) : it describes the standardized methodology for its uniform application in a given intervention. It can contain disaggr egated for their better execution: Instructions (INS), Forms (FOR), or Proceedings (ACT).

3.16. POG (General Operational Procedure ): describes in general the methodology necessary for ca rrying out a given operation

3.17. Position of Border Paymaster : It designates the airports, ports, railway stations, or positions of road control opened to the internationalInfor m ati o n p r ov i d e d b y SENASA for t h e rec o g n iti o n of Ar g e n ti n a  ́s Patagonia as a R e g ion c o m p rised

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit trade of goods and/or transit of people, in which SENASA carries out veterinary inspections through a significant Operational Unit stably.

3.18. Intervention Requirement : Is the form that the interested party should present in the model in effect, with 24 hs. in advance, before the Intervening Operational Unit for the purpose of requesting the presence of its personnel, as what is determ ined in the Decree 4238/68–Chapter XXVIII - numeral 28.25).

3.19. Heel Recipt : It is the tripled of the PTR for proof of the Intervening Operational Unit.

3.20. Intervening Operational Unit : It is the Veterinary Service of SENASA appointed in the Hab ilitated Border Point (PFH).

4 Responsible : It is the staff member of th e Intervening Operational Unit, that is found to be empowered to fulf ill the terms of the present procedure.

5 Description : 5.1. Presentation the interested party of the application of intervention (POE No. 1)
5.2. Documentary verification (POE N°2) Documentation required for its verification.

5.2.1. Arrival notification.

5.2.2. Authorization of Importation.

5.2.3. Copy of the approval of the label.

5.2.4. International Health Certificate, in original.

5.2.5. Document of the compa ny of transportation of the goods, in copy.

5.2.6. Office of Importation of the General Bureau of Customhouses, in

copy.

5.3. Verification of the goods (POE No. 3) Corroborate the documentary corres pondence, physical and of identity (INS No. 1 POE No. 3)
5.3.1 In case of cointainers or trucks

• General conditions of the means of transportation.

• Identifying correspondence of the seal-tags

• Correspondence of the identification of the means of transportation.
5.3.2 Verification of the general conditions of the burden.Infor m ati o n p r ov i d e d b y SENASA for t h e rec o g n iti o n of Ar g e n ti n a  ́s Patagonia as a R e g ion c o m p rised

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit Physical control and of identity of the goods by the verification
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• Labels

• Packing

• Thermal control if it corresponds (INS No. 2 POE No. 3).

5.4 Authorization of the transi t up to the authorized establishment (POE No. 4): 5.4.1 When the means of transportatio n in which the goods leave were not
the same with which entere d the Border Point, burden conditions should be
confirmed. 5.4.2 Seal-tag or reseal-tagged of the means of transportation. 5.4.3 Extension in triplicate of the Permission of Restricted Transit.

• Documentation that should accompany the goods up to the
establishment of destination.

• Permission of Restricted Transit.

• International Health Certificate in original.

• Arrival notification in copy.

• Copy of the approval of the label.

• Authorization of Importation in copy.

5.5 Registry of the intervention an d file of the documentation (POE N°5)

• Once finalized the intervention, the latter should be registered in the “Book of Registry of Imports” that for that purpose this available in the Intervening Office.

• The documentation generate d in the intervention:

• International Health Certificate in copy.

• Arrival notification.

• Importation Authorization

• Copy of the approval of the label

• Office of Importation of Customhouse in copy.

• Trlicate-Heel-receipt.

• Document of the Comp any of transportation of the goods in copy

Should be filed in the “boxes file” provided for that purposeInformation provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit POG No. 2 bis

General Operational Procedure for the export control exits by the Port of
Buenos Aires.

1.-Purpose: Establish the operative sp ecific so that every merchandise for export, it is shipped with the interventi on of the Inspection Service of the Port of Buenos Aires, subject to authoriza tion by the Coordination of Certification of Export of Products.

2.-Scope: Confirm that every merchandise to be exported by the Port of the City of Buenos Aires, has been authorized by the Coordination of Certification of Export, authorizing its charge to the DGA, with the intervention on the back of the Permission of Shipment.

3.-Definitions:

3.1 Documentary control : it is the examination of the certificates or documents that protect the goods arrived at the PFH. 3.2 FOR (Form): it designates a document of format and preestablished fields, in order to be completed by the Interested Party, for knowledge of the Intervening Operational Unit. It will be always associated with a Specific Operational Procedure (POE), being part of this. 3.3 Interested Party : It designates that person in charge of processing the present operative before the Intervening Operational Unit. 3.4 Provisional Health Export Permit : It is the document issued by the Official Veterinary Service of the e xporting plant, in the provided form for that purpose. 3.5 Shipment Permission : It is the one duplicated of the Provisional Health Permit of Export, whose reci pient is the General Bureau of Customhouses (DGA). 3.6 POE (Specific Op erational Procedure) : it describes the standardized methodology for its uniform application in a given intervention. It can contain disaggregated for their better execution: Instructions (INS), Forms (FOR), or Proceedings (ACT).Information provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit 3.7 POG (General Op erational Procedure ): describes in general the methodology necessary for ca rrying out a given operation
Border Control Point : It designates the airports, ports, railway stations, or positions of road control opened to th e international trade of goods and/or transit of people, in which SENASA carri es out veterinary inspections through a significant Operational Unit stably.

3.8 Intervention Requirement : Is the form that the interested party should present in the model in effect, with 24 hs. in advance, before the Intervening Operational Unit for the purpo se of requesting the presence of its personnel, as what is determined in the Decree 4238/68–Chapter XXVIII - numeral 28.25). 3.9 Coordination of Certificati on of Export of Products: 3.10 Program for Charge: 3.11 The end of Charge:

4.-Responsible: Personnel of the Interveni ng Operational Unit that is found to be empowered to fulfill the term s of the present procedure.

5. - Description of the procedure: 5.1 Communication of the Program fo r Charge (POE N°1): The office Coordination of Certifications of Export retransmits to the Office from the

Port of SW Ace, communication received from the exporting Signature. This document consists of a list in which the following data are specified: Plant of origin, Country of destinati on, Vessel, Type of Merchandise, Port Terminal and day of charge.
For the case of which of the aforemen tioned data the refusal to Export on the part of the Coordination of Certifi cation of Exports emerged, it will communicate by E-mail to the interested Company so that she has an abortion the shipment before the consolidated of the holder. Charge the end: Document this that La Empresa interested party will transmit

way E-mail or Fax, one see consolidated the charge in the plant of origin, to the Coordination of Certification of Expo rt, and to the UOI of the port; this
document will take in addition to the data stated in “Communication of

Charge the numbers of: Provisional Health Permit of Export, holder, precintos, and schedule in which the U. O.I should intervene.; this document will be sent way E-mail to the Coordinati on of Exports and to the U.O.I. of the

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit The U.O.I. of the Port will have prom inent personnel in the indicated Port

terminal, on the preestablished day a nd time by the interested Company, where it will carry out the habitual verifi cations, anticipating in this form, the order of charge of the vessel.
Which means that it is established that every export consolidated in plant of origin should be confirmed by personne l of the UOI, within the property of
one Port terminal. Not to arise impediment in the documentary verification and of correspondence of precintos, holders et c., the U.O.I will authorize the burden to the Vessel sealing the permission of Shipment. The Company arranged, in light of the Coordination of Certification of Exports, the Definitive Health Certifi cate, simultaneously with the operative one of shipment.Information provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit POG NO. 3

General Operational Procedure for the Control of Importaitions of Animals and Eggs, that require authorization prior to the importation and later quarantine

6 Purpose : Describe the operational methodol ogy in order to evaluate the feasibility of the income of animal s and eggs for in cubaton through documentary, physical a nd identity control.

7 Reach : Authorize the entry, when they might be surpassed the physical controls, documentary and of identity, through the document of corresponding transit and not to author ize the entry when they were not surpassed these controls, preparing the proceedings of corresponding
evidence.

3 Definitions :

3.1. ACT (Proceedings ): it designates a docum ent of format and preestablished fields, whose worked by the staff member iterviniente of the PFH, will leave on record a given situation. It will be always associated with an Instructions (INS), being part of this.

3.2. International Health Certificate: It is the certificate issued by the Health Authority of the exporti ng country recognized by SENASA, protecting the goods.

3.3. Identity control: it is the verification through ocular inspection, of the correspondence of the goods with th e documents or certificates of protection, as well as the concorda nce of the required identifications.

3.4. Documentary control : it is the examination of the certificates or documents that protect the goods arrived at the PFH.

3.5. Physical control: it is the evidence of the c onditions sanitary of the shipment, where they will be confirmed in addition and when it corresponds, compliance with the st andards of animal well-being.

3.6. Quarantine Establishment of destination : It is the establishment empowered indicated in the Request of authorized Importation, whereInformation provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit the animals are sent in order to fu lfill the importation quarantine, being for the youths of a day and eggs in order to incubate, the establishment of final destination of the importation.

3.7. FOR (Form): it designates a document of format and preestablished fields, in order to be completed by the Interested Party, for knowledge of the Intervening Operational Unit. It will be always associated with a Specific Operational Procedure (POE), being part of this.

3.8. INS (Instructions) : it is the detailed description of a given action, identified in a Specific Operationa l Procedure (POE). It can contain disaggregated for its better execution a Proceedings (ACT).

3.9. Interested Party : It designates that person in charge of processing the present operative before the Intervening Operational Unit.

3.10. Disembarkation Permission : It is the one duplicated of the PTR whose recipient is the General Bureau of Customhouses (DGA).

3.11. Disembarkation Permission : It is the one duplicated of the PTR whose recipient is the General Bureau of Customhouses (DGA).

3.12. Restricted Transit Permission (PTR) : It is original of the document that extends in triplicate th e Intervening Office, in order to protect the transfer of the goods up to the Quarantine Establishment of
destination.

3.13. POE (Specific Operational Procedure) : it describes the standardized methodology for its uniform application in a given intervention. It can contain disaggr egated for their better execution: Instructions (INS), Forms (FOR), or Proceedings (ACT).

3.14. POG (General Operational Procedure ): describes in general the methodology necessary for ca rrying out a given operation

3.15. Position of Border Paymaster : It designates the airports, ports, railway stations, or positions of road control opened to the international trade of goods and/or transit of people, in which SENASA carries out veterinary inspections through a significant Operational Unit stably.

3.16. Intervention Requirement : Is the form that the interested party should present in the model in effect, with 24 hs. in advance, before the Intervening Operational Unit for the purpose of requesting the presence of its personnel, as what is determ ined in the Decree 4238/68–Chapter XXVIII - numeral 28.25).Information provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit 3.17. Importation Request : It is the original of the document issued by the Address of Animal Quarantine of the National Directorate of Animal Health or by delegati on of This, identified with its corresponding numeration and signed by the working professional of such Area, extended in the name of the Responsible Importer registered
before SENASA where there are deta iled among others, the data of
identification of the animals.

3.18. Intervention Request : Is the form that the user should present in the model in effect, with 24 hs. in advance, before the Intervening Office for the purpose of requesting the presence of its personnel, as what is determined in the Decree 4238/68–Chapter XXVIII - numeral 28.25).

3.19. Heel : It is the tripled of the PT R for the Intervening Office.

3.20. Heel : It is the tripled of the PT R for proof of the Intervening Operational Unit.

3.21. Intervening Operational Unit : It is the Veterina ry Service of the significant SENASA in the Position of Border Paymaster (PFH).

3.22. Operational Unit : It is the Veterinary Service of the significant
SENASA in the Position of Border Paymaster (PFH).

4 Responsible : It is the staff member of the Intervening Office, that is found to be empowered to carry out the present procedure.

5 Description : 5.1. Presentation by the interested party of the Intervention Application

. 5.2. Control of the documentation re quired prior to the intervention

. 5.2.1. Request of authorized Importation.

5.2.2. International Health Certificate, in original.

5.2.3. Copy of the customhouse office.

5.3. Physical inspection of the animals or eggs to incubate Corroborate the physical condition and to confirm the identity.

5.3.1 In case of holders or trucks

. 5.3.1.1. Transfer up to the beach of inspection to confirm:

5.3.1.2. General conditions of the means of transportation

5.3.1.3. Identifying correspondence of the precintoInformation provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit 5.3.1.4. Correspondence of the identif ication of the means of transportation.

5.3.1.5. Opening jointly with the DGA (INS No. 1 POE No. 3).

5.3.1.6. Verification of the general conditions of the burden.

5.3.1.7. Identity of the animals (species, race, coat, tattooing, private signs, photographs, others).

5.3.1.8. Physical condition of the animals.

5.3.1.9. Sampling (when it corresponds).

5.3.2 In case of aerial charges 5.3.2.1 Transfer to the deposit or chamber of the importation sector
to confirm

5.3.2.2. General conditions of the bur den. Verification of the general conditions of the burden.

5.3.2.3. Identity of the animals (species, race, coat, tattooing, private signs, photographs, others).

5.3.2.4. Physical condition of the animals.

5.3.2.5. Sampling (when it corresponds).

5.4. Authorization of the transit up to the Quarantine Establishment:
5.4.1. When the means of transportati on in which graduate from the PFH, the animals, or eggs in orde r to incubate, were not the same
with which entered the Positi on of Border Paymaster, the
conditions of burden of the same should be confirmed.

5.4.2. Precintado or reprecintado of the means of transportation.

5.4.3. Extension in triplicate of the Permission of Restricted Transit.

5.5 . Documentation that should acco mpany the animals or eggs in order to incubate up to the autho rized Quarantine Establishment.
5.5.1 Permission of Restricted Transit.

5.5.2 International Health Certificate in original

5.6 Registry of the intervention and file of the documentation
5.6.1 Once finalized the intervention, th e latter should be registered in the Book of Registry of Imports ” that for that purpose this available in the Intervening Office.

5.6.2 The documentation generate d in the intervention:

5.6.2.1 International Health Certificate in copy.

5.6.2.2 Request of Importation, in original.

5.6.2.3 Office of Importation of Customhouse in copy.Information provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit 5.6.2.4 Heel.

5.6.2.5 Document of the Company of tr ansportation of the goods in

copy Should be filed buttoned correlatively in “boxes file” provided for that

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit PROCEDURE OPERATIO NAL GENERAL NO. 4

Purpose : Confirm the technical-documentary viability in export of animals and animal reproductive material.

Reach: Confirm that the protection document ation is corresponded with the one required per the importing Country.
Confirm that the data of identificatio n of the animals or the material of reproduction, there are corresponded with what is certificate.
Confirm that the clinical conditions of th e animals, whether it is the adequate for export. Grant when it corresponds the documen t that authorizes its shipment.

Definiciornes:

DGA : General bureau of Customhouses.

DCA : Office of the Director of Animal Quarantine: Area dependent on the
Office of the Director National of Animal Health, responsible to issue or to delegate the emission of the Health Certificates of Export of animals. Health Permit of Export: Certificate granted by a professional of SENASA, authorized by the DCA, the one responsib le for the fulfillment of the sanitary conditions required by th e importing country. Request of Intervention: List through which the responsible Operator for export, requests the intervention of the Service. Description: With a minimum of 24 hs. previous to being carried out export, the Operator responsible for the same, should present in the corresponding office the Request of Intervention (FRM No. 1 POE No. 1). Prior to the entry of the transporta tion to the Customs Primary Area, the Operator responsible for export should present before SENASA: For airway: Health Export Permit

, Copy of the Airbill.

C opy of the Customs Shipment Permission For terrestrial way:Information provided by SENASA for the recognition of Argentina as a Region comprised in Article 92

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__________________________________________________________________________________________________ SENASA – Risk Analysis unit Health Permit of Export. Copy of the Manifesto of Charge and Copy of the Permission of Customs Shipment. For maritime way: Provisional Export Permit Copy of the Bill of Leading (BL)

Copy of the Permission of Customs Shipment. The inspection of the animals prior to th eir shipment should be carried out as near as it operationally is feasible of the moment of the exit of the Country. When the Inspection technical–documenta ry turned out satisfactory, will extend the Permission of Shipment that will authorize its export. Once finalized the intervention, it will be proceeded with the seat of the same in the export book. Once settled the intervention, will be filed the do and Airbill.
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