2007/275/EC: Commission Decision of 17 April 2007 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 (notified under document number C(2007) 1547) (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2007-04-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural trade, customs regulations, import (EU), live animal, third country, veterinary inspection

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DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 17 April 2007

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

(notified under document number C(2007) 1547)

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2007/275/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Community to be carried out by the Member States in
accordance with that Directive.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July 1991
laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from
third
89/662/EEC,
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC (1), and in particular Article 4(5)
thereof,

amending Directives

countries

and

Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December
1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of
veterinary checks on products entering the Community from
third countries (2), and in particular Article 3(5) thereof,

(2)

(3)

(4)

Having regard to Council Directive 2002/99/EC of 16
December 2002 laying down the
animal health rules
governing the production, processing, distribution and intro-
duction
human
for
of
consumption (3), and in particular Article 8(5) thereof,

products

animal

origin

of

Whereas:

Directive 97/78/EC provides for veterinary checks on
certain products of animal origin and certain plant
products introduced into the Community from third
countries.

inspection

Commission Decision 2002/349/EC of 26 April 2002
laying down the list of products to be examined at
under Council Directive
border
97/78/EC (4) provides
animal
the products of
that
to
origin listed in that Decision are to be subject
veterinary
in
inspection posts
accordance with Directive 97/78/EC.

border

checks

posts

at

As veterinary checks at border inspections posts are
carried out in close cooperation with customs officials,
it is appropriate to use a list of products that refer to the
Combined Nomenclature (CN) provided for in Council
Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the
tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common
Customs Tariff (5) as a first basis
selection of
consignments. The
in Decision
2002/349/EC should therefore be replaced by the list
in Annex I to this Decision.

for
lists of products

(1)

Directive 91/496/EEC provides for veterinary checks in
respect of animals from third countries entering the

(1) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56. Directive as last amended by Directive

2006/104/EC (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 352).

(2) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9. Directive as last amended by Directive

2006/104/EC.

(3) OJ L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11.

(5)

In the interests of rationality of Community legislation, it
is appropriate that the list in Annex I to this Decision
also covers animals entering the Community from third
countries.

(4) OJ L 121, 8.5.2002, p. 6.
(5) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 301/2007 (OJ L 81, 22.3.2007, p. 11).

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(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

(11)

In order to facilitate controls by the competent auth-
orities at border inspection posts, the list in Annex I to
this Decision should provide as precise a description as
possible of the animals and products to be subjected to
veterinary checks under Directive 97/78/EC. In addition,
for certain CN codes, this Decision only provides for a
the products falling under the relevant
small part of
Chapter or heading to be
subjected to veterinary
checks.
In such cases, Column 3 of Annex I to this
Decision, should refer to the applicable CN code and
give details of the products which should be subject to
those veterinary checks.

Decision 2002/349/EC provides that composite food
products
limited percentage of
products of animal origin are to continue to be subject
to national rules.

containing only

a

the necessity of
veterinary checks.

subjecting composite products

to

(12)

In the interests of consistency of veterinary checks at
border inspection posts on composite products being
introduced into the Community,
is appropriate to
establish also a list of certain foodstuffs and composite
products that may be exempted from the veterinary
checks provided for in Directive 97/78/EC.

it

(13)

In the interests of coherence of Community legislation, it
is appropriate to repeal Decision 2002/349/EC and
replace it by this Decision.

(14)

The measures provided for
accordance with
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,

in this Decision are in
Standing
the

opinion

the

of

However, in order to avoid differences in interpretation
between Member States,
leading to distortions in trade
and to potential animal health risks, rules should now be
laid down at Community level concerning the composite
products that may be exempted from veterinary checks
under Directive 97/78/EC.

Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of
European
Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 laying
down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin (1)
contains definitions of certain products. In the interests
of consistency of Community legislation, it is appropriate
to have regard to those definitions in this Decision.

the

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Subject matter

This Decision lays down rules regarding the animals and
to be subjected to veterinary checks at border
products
inspection posts on introduction into the Community,
in
accordance with Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Decision, the following definitions shall
apply:

There are differences in the animal health risk associated
with imports of different types of animal products into
this Decision should
the Community. Accordingly,
provide that all composite products containing meat
products should be subject to veterinary checks, while
different
applied to composite
products containing other animal products based upon
the need to have harmonised rules at Community level.

should be

criteria

a

(a) composite product:

intended for human
foodstuff
consumption that contains both processed products of
animal origin and products of plant origin and includes
those where the processing of primary product
is an
integral part of the production of the final product;

Certain composite products receive treatment during
manufacture which reduces the potential animal health
risk present
in such products. The appearance, shelf
stability, and physical characteristics should therefore be
for
used
competent authorities that have to make a decision on

distinguishing

recognisable

features

as

(b) meat products: products as defined in point 7.1 of Annex I

to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(c) processed products:

the processed products listed under

point 7 of Annex 1 to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(1) OJ L 139, 30.4.2004, p. 55, corrected by OJ L 226, 25.6.2004,
p. 22. Regulation as last amended by Council Regulation (EC)
No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(d) dairy products: products as defined in point 7.2 of Annex I

to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004.

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Article 3

Veterinary checks of animals and products listed in
Annex I

The animals and products listed in Annex I

to this
1.
Decision shall be subjected to veterinary checks at border
inspection posts in accordance with Directives 91/496/EEC
and 97/78/EC.

introduction into the Community by the relevant certificate
laid down in Community legislation.

Composite products containing only processed fishery or egg
products of animal origin shall be accompanied at introduction
into the Community by the relevant certificate laid down in
Community legislation or a commercial document where
there is no certificate so required.

2.
This Decision applies without prejudice to the checks on
composite products necessary to ensure compliance with
Community public health requirements.

Derogation for certain composite products and foodstuffs

Article 6

3.
Initial selection of products for veterinary checks made on
the basis of the Combined Nomenclature in Column 1 of the
Annex shall be qualified by reference to the specific text or
veterinary legislation cited in Column 3.

Article 4

Composite products subject to veterinary checks

The following composite products shall be subject to veterinary
checks:

By way of derogation from Article 3,
intended

the following
1.
composite products or
for human
consumption, not containing any meat products, shall not be
subject to veterinary checks:

foodstuffs

(a) composite products containing less

their
substance of any other processed product provided such
products are:

than half of

(i) shelf-stable at ambient

temperature or have clearly
undergone in their manufacture a complete cooking
or heat treatment process throughout their substance,
so that any raw product is denatured;

(a) Composite products containing processed meat product.

(ii) clearly identified as intended for human consumption;

(b) Composite products containing half or more of

their
substance of any one processed product of animal origin
other than processed meat product.

(c) Composite products containing no processed meat product
and less than half of their substance of processed milk
the
product where
requirements of Article 6.

final products do not meet

the

Article 5

Certification to accompany composite products subject to
veterinary checks

Those composite products containing processed meat product
shall be accompanied at introduction into the Community by
the
laid down in
Community legislation, regardless of any other animal product
content.

for meat products

certificate

relevant

(iii) securely packaged or sealed in clean containers;

(iv) accompanied by a commercial document and labelled
in an official language of a Member State, so that that
document and labelling together give information on
the nature, quantity and number of packages of the
composite products, the country of origin, the manu-
facturer, and the ingredient;

(b) composite products or foodstuffs listed in Annex II.

2.
However, any milk product included in any composite
products shall only be derived from, and treated as provided
to Commission Decision
for, countries
2004/438/EC (1).

listed in Annex I

Article 7

Repeal

Decision 2002/349/EC is repealed.

Those composite products referred to in Article 4(b) and 4(c),
containing processed milk product, shall be accompanied at

(1) OJ L 154, 30.4.2004, p. 72, corrected by OJ L 92, 12.4.2005, p. 47.

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Article 8

Applicability

This Decision shall apply from one month after the date of publication in the Official Journal of the European
Union.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 9

Addresses

Done at Brussels, 17 April 2007.

For the Commission

Markos KYPRIANOU
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

LIST OF ANIMALS AND PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO VETERINARY CHECKS AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3

This list sets out animals and products according to the goods nomenclature in use in the Community to assist selection of consignments
that must be submitted to veterinary checks at a border inspection post

Notes:

1. Column 1:

Where a four digit code is used: unless otherwise specified all products prefixed with or covered by these four digits must be passed to the competent
authority for veterinary checks.

Where only certain products under any code are required to be examined under veterinary checks and no specific subdivision under this code exists
in the goods nomenclature, the code is marked Ex (for example Ex 3002: veterinary check required only for animal derived material and not for the
entire heading).

The digits placed within brackets in column 1 are not to be entered in the TRACES system set up by Commission Decision 2004/292/EC of
30 March 2004 on the introduction of the TRACES system and amending Decision 92/486/EEC (1).

2. Column 2:

The description of the goods is as laid down in the description column of Annex 1 to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87. For further explanation of the
exact coverage of the Common Customs Tariff please refer to the latest amendment to that Annex.

NB: Further information on the products covered by the different Chapters and Headings is provided by the Harmonized System Explanatory Notes
of the World Customs Organisation or can be found in the Combined Nomenclature explanatory notes as regards Combined Nomenclature (CN)
codes.

3. Column 3: This column gives details of the products covered.

In some cases there are certain live animals (such as reptiles, amphibians, insects, worms, or other invertebrates) or animal products sent to the
official veterinarian for which no harmonised animal health conditions for imports into the Community are laid down, and therefore there is no
harmonised import certificate. The conditions of import for all
live animals not elsewhere specified fall within the scope of Council Directive
92/65/EEC of 13 July 1992 laying down animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova
to Directive
and embryos not subject
90/425/EEC (2), but in the case of certain animals national rules apply as regards the documentation required to accompany consignments.
Official veterinarians must examine the consignments and issue a Common Veterinary Entry Document (CVED) as appropriate to indicate that a
control has been carried out and that the animals may be released for free circulation.

to animal health requirements laid down in specific Community rules referred to in Annex A (I)

In certain cases as regards animal by-products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
3 October 2002 laying down health rules concerning animal by products not intended for human consumption (3), the full extent of the coverage of
the Community legislation in respect of derived or processed products is not precisely defined. Veterinary checks must be carried out on products
that are processed but are still essentially raw bulk product that are to be further processed before being presented to the final consumer.

In these cases the official veterinarian at the border inspection posts must specify whether a particular derived product is so processed that it falls
outside the veterinary checks provided for in Community legislation.

Notwithstanding the rules for the interpretation of the Combined Nomenclature, the wording for the description of the products in column 2 is to be
considered as having no more than an indicative value, the scope being determined, within the context of this Annex by the scope of the CN codes as
they exist at the time of adoption of the current Decision.

TABLE

Where ex CN codes are referred to in this table, the coverage is to be determined by application of the CN code and corresponding description taken
together.

(1) OJ L 94, 31.3.2004, p. 63.
(2) OJ L 268, 14.9.1992, p. 54.
(3) OJ L 273, 10.10.2002, p. 1.

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CN code

Description

Qualification and explanation

Chapter 1: Live Animals

0101

Live horses, asses, mules and hinnies

0102

Live bovine animals

0103

Live swine

0104 10

Live sheep

0104 20

Live goats

0105

Live poultry, that is to say, fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, ducks,
geese, turkeys and guinea fowls

0106

Other live animals

Heading includes, the following domestic or wild animals:

(A) Mammals

(1) Primates

All

All

All

All

All

All

All

(2) Whales Dolphins and porpoises (Mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees and dugongs (Mammals of the order Sirenia)

(3) Other (such as reindeer, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, bears, elephants, camels, zebras, rabbits, hares, deer, antelope, chamois, foxes, mink, and other

animals for fur farms

(B) Reptiles (including snakes and turtles)

(C) Birds

(1) Birds of Prey

(2) Psittaciformes (including parrots, parakeets, macaws and cockatoos)

(3) Other (such as partridges, pheasants, quail, woodcocks, snipe, pigeons, grouse, ortolan, wild ducks, wild geese, thrushes, blackbirds,

larks,

finches, tits, humming birds, peacocks, swans, and other birds not specified in heading 01.05).

(D) Other, such as bees (whether or not travelling in boxes or cages or hives), other insects, frogs.

Heading 0106 excludes animals forming part of circuses, menageries, or other similar travelling animal shows (heading 95.08)

0106 11

Primates

0106 12

Whales, dolphins porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees
and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia).

All

All

0106 19

Other

Domestic rabbits, and mammals other than those part
of 0101, 0102, 0103, 0104, 0106 11 and 0106 12.
Includes dogs and cats.

0106 20

Reptiles (including snakes and turtles).

0106 31

Birds: Birds of prey.

0106 32

Birds: Psittaciformes (including parrots, parakeets, macaws and
cockatoos).

All

All

All

0106 39

Other

Includes: birds, other than those falling under headings
0105, 0106 31 and 0106 32, including pigeons.

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Description

Qualification and explanation

0106 90 00

Other

All other live animals not included elsewhere, other
than mammals, birds and reptiles. Live frogs whether
for vivaria to be kept alive, or to be killed for human
consumption, are covered by this heading.

Chapter 2: Meat and edible meat offal

This chapter does not cover

(a) Products of a kind described in headings 0201 to 0208 or 0210 unfit or unsuitable for human consumption;

(b) guts bladders or stomachs of animals (heading 0504) or animal blood (heading 0511 or 3002);

(c) animal fat other than the products of heading 0209 (Chapter 15).

0201

Meat of bovine animals, fresh or chilled

0202

Meat of bovine animals, frozen

0203

Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen

0204

Meat of sheep or goats, fresh, chilled or frozen

0205 00

Meat of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen.

0206

0207

Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or
hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen.

Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or
frozen.

All

All

All

All

All

All

All

0208

Other meat and edible meat offal, fresh, chilled or frozen.

Excludes:
consumption.

raw material not

intended for human

includes bones

This
production of
consumption.

and other material

the
collagen for human

for

gelatine or

0208 10

Of Rabbits or hares

0208 20 (00)

Frog’s legs

0208 30

Of Primates

0208 40

Of whales dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); of
manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia).

0208 50 (00)

Of Reptiles (including snakes and turtles).

All

All

All

All

All

0208 90

Other: of domestic pigeons, of game other than of rabbits or hares.

Includes meat of quails, seal meat, reindeer or any
other mammal species.

0209 00

Pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise
extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.

Includes both fat and processed fat.

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CN code

0210

Description

Qualification and explanation

Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours
and meals of meat or meat offal.

All: Includes meat, meat products and bones for human
consumption and other products of animal origin.

Processed animal protein including greaves for human
consumption is covered by this chapter. Includes dried
pigs ears for human consumption.

Sausages are included under heading 1601.

Chapter 3: Fish and Crustaceans, Molluscs and other aquatic
invertebrates

This chapter does not cover

(a) Mammals of heading 0106;

(b) meat of mammals of heading 0106 (heading 0208 or 0210);

(c)

fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates dead and unfit or unsuitable for human consumption
by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic
invertebrates unfit for human consumption (heading 2301); or

(d) caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 1604)

0301

Live fish

This chapter includes both live fish for breeding and
reproduction, live ornamental fish, and live fish or live
crustaceans transported alive but imported for human
consumption.

All products in this section are subject to veterinary
checks.

All: Includes Trout, Eels, Carp, or any other species or
any fish imported for breeding or reproduction.

Live fish imported for immediate human consumption
are treated for veterinary checks purposes as if they
were products.

Includes ornamental fish under heading 0301 10.

0302

Fish, fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading
0304*.

All

0302 70

Livers and roes

0303

Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304. All:

Includes: Pacific Salmon but excluding livers and roes;
sockeye
salmonidae,
excluding livers and roes; Trout; Atlantic Salmon; and
all other fish.

salmon (red salmon); other

0304

Fish fillets and other fish meat (whether or not minced), fresh, chilled or
frozen.

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0305

Description

Qualification and explanation

Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before
or

All:
includes other fishery products such as flours,
meals and pellets fit for human consumption made
from fish, crustaceans or other aquatic invertebrates.

during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for
human consumption.

0306

Crustaceans, whether in shell or not,
salted or in brine;

live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried,

All: Live crustaceans imported for immediate human
consumption are considered and treated for veterinary
checks purposes as if they were products.

crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether
or not chilled,

frozen, dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of crustaceans,
fit for human consumption.

0307

Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted
or in brine;

All:

aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs,
chilled, frozen;

live, fresh,

This includes Bonamia Ostreae and Martelia refringens,
also molluscs and aquatic invertebrates that may have
been cooked and then chilled or frozen.

dried, salted or in brine; flours, meals and pellets of aquatic invertebrates
other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

0307 60 00

Snails other than sea snails.

Live molluscs
human
consumption are considered and treated for veterinary
checks purposes as if they were products.

immediate

imported

for

This includes meat of snail species.

Includes terrestrial gastropods of
the species Helix
pomatia Linné, Helix aspersa Muller, Helix lucorum
and species of the family Achatinidae.

Includes live snails for immediate human consumption
and also snail meat for human consumption.

Includes lightly precooked or pre-processed snail.

0307 91 00

Live aquatic invertebrates other than crustaceans and molluscs, live, fresh,
or chilled.

All

0307 99 90

Other: This code includes flours, meals and pellets of aquatic inverte-
brates other than crustaceans, fit for human consumption.

All: Includes fish meal for human consumption.

Chapter 4: Dairy produce; birds’ eggs; natural honey; edible
products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included

1. The expression ‘milk’ means full-cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk.

2. For the purposes of heading 0405:

(a)

the term ‘butter’ means natural butter, whey butter or recombined butter (fresh, salted or rancid, including canned butter) derived exclusively
from milk, with a milkfat content of 80 % or more but not more than 95 % by weight, a maximum milk solids-not-fat content of 2 % by weight
and a maximum water content of 16 % by weight. Butter does not contain added emulsifiers, but may contain sodium chloride, food colours,
neutralising salts and cultures of harmless lactic-acid-producing bacteria;

(b) the expression ‘dairy spreads’ means a spreadable emulsion of the water-in-oil type, containing milkfat as the only fat in the product, with a

milkfat content of 39 % or more but less than 80 % by weight.

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CN code

Description

Qualification and explanation

3. Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as cheese in heading 0406 provided that

they have the three following characteristics:

(a) a milkfat content, by weight of the dry matter, of 5 % or more;

(b) a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70 % but not exceeding 85 %; and

(c)

they are moulded or capable of being moulded.

4. This chapter does not cover:

(a) products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95 % lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose calculated on the dry matter

(heading 1702); or

(b) albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80 % whey proteins, calculated on the dry

matter) (heading 3502) or globulins (heading 3504).

0401

Milk and cream, not concentrated nor containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.

All: Milk includes milk that
thermised.

is raw, pasteurised, or

Includes fractions of milk.

Milk for animal feed is included under heading 2309.

0402

Milk and cream, concentrated or containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.

All

0403

Buttermilk, curdled milk and cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented
or acidified milk and cream, whether or not concentrated or containing
added sugar or other sweetening matter or flavoured or containing added
fruit, nuts or cocoa.

All:

Includes cream, butter, and flavoured,
and fermented milk,
human consumption.

frozen
and concentrated milk for

jellied,

Ice cream is included under heading 2105.

0404

Whey, whether or not concentrated or containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter; products consisting of natural milk constituents,
whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter,
not elsewhere specified or included.

All

0405

Butter and other fats and oils derived from milk; dairy spreads.

All: Includes dairy spreads.

0406

Cheese and curd

All

0407 00

Birds’ eggs, in shell, fresh, preserved or cooked.

All: Includes hatching eggs and Specified Pathogen Free
eggs (SPF), and also eggs for human consumption.

Includes ‘100 year old eggs’.

Egg albumin not
included under heading 3502.

fit

for human consumption is

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CN code

0408

Description

Qualification and explanation

Birds’ eggs, not in shell, and egg yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by steaming
or by boiling in water, moulded, frozen or otherwise preserved, whether
or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter.

All: This heading includes egg products whether or not
heat treated.

This heading covers whole eggs not in shell, and egg yolks of all birds. The products of this heading may be fresh, dried, cooked by steaming or by
boiling in water, moulded (e.g. cylindrical ‘long eggs’), frozen or otherwise preserved. All these fall in the heading whether or not containing added sugar
or other sweetening matter and whether for use as food or for industrial purposes (e.g. in tanning).

This heading does not cover

(a) Oil of egg yolk (heading 15.06).

(b) Egg preparations containing seasoning, spices or other additives (heading 21.06).

(c) Lecithin (heading 29.23).

(d) Separate egg white (egg albumin) (heading 35.02).

0409 00 00

Natural honey

All

This heading covers honey produced by bees (Apis Mellifera) or by other insects, centrifuged or in the comb or containing comb chunks, provided that
neither sugar nor other substance has been added. Such honey may be designated by floral source, origin or colour.

The heading excludes artificial honey and mixtures of natural and artificial honey (heading 17.02).

0410 00 00

Edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included. All

This heading includes Royal Jelly and Propolis and also
includes bones or other animal derived material
for
human consumption.

Insects or insect eggs for human consumption are
included under this heading.

This heading 0410 00 00 covers products of animal origin suitable for human consumption, not specified or included elsewhere in the combined
nomenclature. This includes:

(a) Turtles eggs;

(b) Salanganes’ nests (‘birds nests’)

The heading 0410 00 00 excludes animal blood, edible or not, liquid or dried (heading 05.11 or 30.02)

Chapter 5: Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or
included

Additional selection requirements for certain products
in this chapter are laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VIII (wool, hair,
pig bristles, feathers and parts of feathers).

1. This chapter does not cover:

(a) edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood, liquid or dried);

(b) hides or skins (including furskins), other than goods of heading 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides or skins of heading 0511

(Chapter 41 or 43);

(c) animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or

(d) prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).

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2. Throughout the nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and the teeth of all animals are

regarded as ‘ivory’.

3. Throughout the nomenclature, the expression ‘horsehair’ means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine animals.

0502 10 00

Pigs, hogs or boars bristles and hair; waste of such bristles or hair.

0503 00 00

Horse hair and horsehair waste.

Un-processed pigs bristles means pig bristles that have
not undergone factory washing, been obtained from
tanning, or been treated by some other method to
ensure that no pathogens remain.

All hair under
competent veterinary
status and treatment received may be required.

this code must be notified to the
species,
authority. Proof of

Heading 0503 excludes hair that has undergone a spinning process or is knotted end to end. This code includes not only un-worked horsehair but also
horsehair that has been washed, dyed, bleached, curled or otherwise prepared.

0504 00 00

Guts, bladders and stomachs of animals (other than fish), whole and
pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked.

All: Includes stomachs, bladders and intestines cleaned
salted dried or heated of bovine, porcine, ovine,
caprine, or of poultry origin.

0505

Skins and other parts of birds, with their feathers or down, feathers and
parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges) and down, not
further worked than cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation;
powder and waste of feathers or parts of feathers.

All — excluding treated decorative feathers,
treated
feathers carried by travellers for their private use or
consignments of treated feathers sent to private indi-
viduals for non industrial purposes.

Heading 0505 covers untreated as well as those treated as follows: merely cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation but not otherwise worked or
mounted.

0506

Bones and horn-cores, un-worked, defatted, simply prepared (but not cut
to shape), treated with acid or de-gelatinised; powder and waste of these
products.

Feathers of a kind used for stuffing; and down, raw or
other feathers.

Includes bones for production of gelatine, or collagen if
derived from carcases that have been slaughtered for
human consumption and bone
for human
consumption.

flour

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter X (bones and bone
products etc.).

0507

Ivory,
tortoise-shell, whalebone and whalebone hair, horns, antlers,
hooves, nails, claws and beaks, un-worked or simply prepared but not
cut to shape; powder and waste of these products.

Selection requirements
for game trophies are laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII
Chapter VII.

treated game

Includes
and
ungulates being solely bones, horns, hooves, claws,
antlers, teeth, hides or skins from third countries.

from birds

trophies

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Ex 0510 00 00

Ambergris, castoreum, civet and musk, cantharides, bile, whether or not
dried;

Glands and other animal products used in the preparation of pharma-
ceutical products,
frozen or otherwise provisionally
preserved.

fresh, chilled,

0511

Animal products not elsewhere specified or included; dead animals of
Chapter 1 or 3, unfit for human consumption.

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002. Annex VIII Chapter XI, Animal by
feed including
the manufacture of
products
petfood and for pharmaceuticals and other technical
products.

for

Glands, other animal products and bile are covered by
this code.

Dried glands and products are covered by heading
3501.

Includes genetic material
(semen and embryos of
animal origin such as bovine, ovine, caprine, equine
and porcine species.

Includes also animal by-products of categories 1 and 2.

0511 10 00

Bovine semen

0511 91

Products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates;
dead animals of Chapter 3.

All: includes fish eggs for hatching: and dead animals.
Includes animal by-products for the manufacture of
petfood and for pharmaceuticals and other technical
products.

0511 99 (10)

Sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste of raw hides and skins. All

0511 99 90

Other

Chapter 12: Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits miscellaneous grains,
seeds and fruit: industrial or medicinal plants: straw and fodder

All: embryos, ova, semen and genetic material not
covered in 0511 10 and of species other than bovine
come under this heading.

Includes animal by-products for the manufacture of
petfood or other technological products.

Includes bee products for use in apiculture.

Also includes dead animals of chapter I (dogs and cats).

Includes material where the essential characteristics
have not been changed, and edible animal blood not
derived from fish, for human consumption.

Only certain plant products are subject to veterinary
controls.

Ex 1213 00 00

Cereal straw and husks, unprepared, whether or not chopped, ground,

Includes only Hay and Straw.

pressed or in the form of pellets

Ex 1214 (90)

lucerne (alfalfa), clover, sainfoin,
Swedes, mangolds, fodder roots, hay,
forage kale lupines vetches and similar forage products whether or not in
the form of pellets:

Includes only Hay and Straw.

Other.

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Chapter 15: Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage
products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxes

1. This chapter does not cover

(a) pig fat or poultry fat on heading 0209;

(b) cocoa butter, fat and oil (heading 1804);

(c) edible preparations containing by weight more than 15 % of the products of heading 0405 (generally Chapter 21);

(d) greaves (heading 2301) or residues of headings 2304 to 2306;

2. Heading 1518 does not cover fats or oils or their fractions, merely denatured, which are classified un the heading appropriate to the corresponding

un-denatured fats and oils and their fractions.

3. Soap stocks, oil foots and dregs, stearin pitch, glycerol pitch and wool grease residues fall in heading 1522.

All animal derived oils.

Additional selection requirements are laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 as below:

Annex VII Chapter IV; rendered fats and fish oils;

Annex VIII Chapter XII; Rendered fats from category 2
materials for oleo chemical purposes;

Annex VIII Chapter XIII; Fat derivatives.

Fat derivatives include first stage products derived from
fats and oils when in their pure state produced by a
method laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002
Annex VI Chapter III. Derivatives mixed with other
materials are not included.

1501 00

Pig fat (including lard) and poultry fat, other than that of heading 0209
or 1503.

All

1502 00

Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading
1503.

All

1503 00

Lard stearin, lard oil, oleostearin, oleo-oil and tallow oil, not emulsified
or mixed or otherwise prepared.

All

1504

Fats and oils and their fractions, of fish or marine mammals, whether or
not refined, but not chemically modified.

Fish oils — and oils from marine mammals.

1506 00 00

Other animal fats and oils and their fractions, whether or not refined, but
not chemically modified.

Miscellaneous
Chapter 21.

edible preparations

are

covered by

Un-split
fractions
fats or oils, and also their initial
produced by a method laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III.

Derivatives mixed with other materials
included.

are not

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The heading 1516 covers animal and vegetable fats and oils, which have undergone a specific chemical transformation of a kind mentioned below, but
have not been further prepared.

The heading also covers similarly treated fractions of animal or vegetable fats and oils.

Hydrogenation, which is affected by bringing the products into contact with pure hydrogen at a suitable temperature and pressure in the presence of a
catalyst (usually finely divided nickel), raises the melting points of fats and increases the consistency of oils by transforming unsaturated glycerides into
saturated glycerides of higher melting points.

1516 10

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, partly or wholly
hydrogenated, inter-esterified, re-esterified or elaidinised, whether refined
or not, but not further prepared.

Animal fats and oils only. Derivatives mixed with other
materials are not included in veterinary checks.

Ex 1518 00

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised,
dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in
inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading
1516; inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or
oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this Chapter, not elsewhere
specified or included.

For veterinary purposes fat derivatives include first
stage products derived from animal
fats and oils
when in their pure state produced by a method laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI
Chapter III.

Animal fats and oils only

Rendered fats only.

Fat derivatives produced by a method laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VI Chapter III.

Derivatives mixed with other materials
included.

are not

1518 00 (91)

Animal and vegetable fats and oils and their fractions, boiled, oxidised,
dehydrated, sulphurised, blown, polymerised by heat in vacuum or in
inert gas or otherwise chemically modified, excluding those of heading
1516.

Animal fats and oils only

Selection requirements are laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter XIII (for fat deriva-
tives), and Annex VIII Chapter XII for rendered fats
from category 2 materials for oleochemical purposes.

1518 00 (95)

Inedible mixtures or preparations of animal or of animal and vegetable
fats and oils and their fractions.

Fats and oil preparations derived from animals.

1521 90 (91)

Raw beeswax and other insect waxes whether refined or not.

Bees wax for technical purposes.

Additional selection requirements are laid down Regu-
lation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter IX —
Apiculture products.

1521 90 (99)

Other.

Bee products for apiculture purposes.

Additional selection requirements are laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter
IX — Apiculture products. Apiculture products other
than bee products for apiculture must be submitted
under code 0511 99 ‘Other’.

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Chapter 16: Preparations of meat, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs
or other aquatic invertebrates:

1. This chapter does not cover meat, meat offal, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates prepared or preserved by the process specified

in Chapter 2 or 3 or heading 0504.

2. Food preparations fall in this chapter provided that they contain more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans,
molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof. In cases where the preparation contains two or more of the products mentioned
above, it is classified in the heading of chapter 16 corresponding to the component or components which predominate by weight. These provisions
do not apply to the stuffed products of heading 1902 or to the preparations of heading 2103 or 2104.

This chapter Includes composite products containing
processed animal product.

1601 00

Sausages and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood;
preparations based on these products.

food

Includes preserved meat in various forms.

1602

Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood.

Includes preserved meat in various forms.

1603 00

Extracts and juices of meat, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic
invertebrates.

All: includes Surimi, fish protein in gel form whether
chilled of frozen.

1604

Prepared or preserved fish; caviar and caviar substitutes prepared from
fish eggs; fish whole or in pieces, but not minced.

cooked or precooked

All:
containing molluscs or fish.

culinary preparations

Includes canned fish, and canned caviar in airtight
containers.

Fish products mixed with pasta are included under
heading 1902.

1605

Crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, prepared or
preserved.

All: Fully prepared or preprepared snail falls under this
heading.

Includes canned crustaceans, or other aquatic inverte-
brates.

Chapter 17: Sugars and sugar confectionery

This chapter does not include chemically pure sugars other than sucrose,
lactose, maltose, glucose and fructose.

1702 11 00

Lactose and lactose syrup, containing by weight 99 % or more lactose,
expressed as anhydrous lactose, calculated on the dry matter.

Chapter 19: Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk;
pastrycooks’ products

This chapter does not cover, except in the case of stuffed products of heading 1902, food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of
sausage, meat, meat offal, blood, fish, or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (chapter 16).

This chapter includes composite products containing
processed animal products.

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Description

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Malt extract; food preparations of flour, groats, meal, starch or malt
extract, not containing cocoa or containing less that 40 % by weight
of cocoa calculated on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified
or included; food preparations of goods of headings 0401 to 0404, not
containing cocoa or containing less than 5 % by eight of cocoa calculated
on a totally defatted basis, not elsewhere specified or included.

Culinary preparations are included under chapters
16 and 21.

Ex 1902

Pasta, whether or not cooked or stuffed (with meat or other substances)
or

Includes cooked or precooked culinary preparations
containing animal products.

otherwise prepared,
gnocchi,

such as

spaghetti, macaroni, noodles,

lasagne,

ravioli, cannelloni; couscous, whether or not prepared.

1902 20 (10)

Containing more than 20 % by weight of fish, crustaceans, molluscs or
other aquatic invertebrates.

All

1902 20 (30)

Containing more than 20 % by weight of sausages and the like, of meat
and meat offal of any kind, including fats of any kind or origin.

All

1902 20 (91)

Cooked

1902 20 (99)

Other [other stuffed pasta, not cooked].

All

All

Ex 1905

Patisseries

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Chapter 20: Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts, or other parts of
plants

This chapter does not cover food preparations containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage, meat, meat offal, blood fish or crustaceans, molluscs or
other aquatic invertebrates, or any combination thereof (Chapter 16).

Ex 2004

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or
acetic acid, frozen, other than products of heading 2006.

This chapter includes composite products containing
processed animal product.

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Ex 2005

Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or
acetic acid, not frozen, other than products of heading 2006.

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous edible preparations

1. This chapter does not cover food preparations, other than products described in 2103 or 2104, containing more than 20 % by weight of sausage,

meat, meat offal, blood, fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or any other combinations thereof (Chapter 16).

2. For the purposes of heading 2104, the expression homogenised composite food preparations means preparations consisting of a finely homogenised
mixture of two or more basic ingredients such as fish, meat, vegetables or fruit, put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes, in
containers of a net weight content not exceeding 250 g. For the application of this definition, no account is to be taken of small quantities of any
ingredients which may be added to the mixture for seasoning, preservation or other purposes. Such preparations may contain a small quantity of
visible pieces of ingredients.

This chapter includes composite products containing
processed animal product.

Ex 2103 (90 90)

Sauces and preparations
seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard.

therefore; mixed condiments and mixed

Includes those preparations containing meat.

Other

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Description

Qualification and explanation

Soups and broths and preparations therefore; homogenised composite
food preparations.

those preparations

Includes
containing meat or
products of animal origin in accordance with this
Decision.

Ex 2105 00

Ice cream and other edible ice, whether or not containing cocoa.

Includes those preparations containing processed milk
in accordance with this Decision.

Ex 2106

Food preparations not elsewhere specified or included.

those preparations

containing meat or
Includes
products of animal origin in accordance with this
Decision.

Ex 2106 10

Protein concentrates and textured protein substances.

Includes those preparations containing products of
animal origin in accordance with this Decision.

2106 90 (10)

Cheese Fondues

All

2106 90 (98)

Other

those preparations

containing meat or
Includes
products of animal origin in accordance with this
Decision.

Chapter 23: Residues and waste from the food industries; prepared
animal fodder

Heading 2309 includes products of a kind used in animal feeding, not elsewhere specified or included, obtained by processing vegetable or animal
materials to such an extent that they have lost the essential characteristics of the original material, other than vegetable waste, vegetable residues and by-
products of such processing.

2301

Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans,
molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption;
greaves.

Includes: processed animal protein not
consumption.

for human

Meat and bone meal, feather meal, dried greaves all not
for human consumption.

Selection requirements for processed animal protein are
as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex
VII Chapter II.

Ex 2309

Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding.

Includes petfood, dog chews and mixtures of meals.

Selection requirements for petfood and dog chews are
as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex
VIII Chapter II.

2309 10

Dog or cat food, put up for retail sale.

All

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2309 90

Other

This heading includes products containing fish or marine mammal
solubles, milk products or other carbohydrates.

Includes colostrum and liquid milk not
for human
consumption, and products containing milk not for
human consumption.

2309 90 (99)

Other

Includes egg products not for human consumption and
for
other processed products of animal origin not
human consumption.

Products
mixtures of meals (such as hoof and horn etc.).

feeding purposes,

animal

for

including

Selection requirements for egg products are as laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII
Chapter X.

Chapter 28: Products of the chemical or allied industries

Ex 2835

Phosphinates (hypophosphites), phosphonates (phosphites) and phos-
phates; poly phosphates whether on not chemically defined.

Only certain phosphates of calcium are subject
checks

to

2835 (25)

Calcium hydrogenorthophosphate (dicalcium phosphate).

2835 (26)

Other phosphates of calcium.

Selection requirements for dicalcium phosphate are laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002. Annex VII
Chapter VII.

Selection requirements for tricalcium phosphate are as
laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII
Chapter VIII.

Chapter 30: Pharmaceutical products

legislation

are not
import.

Finished medicinal products
veterinary
products derived from category 3 material
intended for
vitro diagnostics,
are included.

covered by
Intermediate
and
in
laboratory reagents and cosmetics

technical uses in medical devices,

for

3001

Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or
not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions
for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal
substances prepared for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, not elsewhere
specified or included.

Includes: Animal derived material only.

to selection requirements in Regulation (EC)

Refer
No 1774/2002:

Annex VIII Chapter IV blood and blood products for
technical products excluding serum of equidae, and
Annex VIII Chapter XI, animal by- products for the
manufacture of
and of
technical products excluding intermediate products as
referred to in Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 2007/2006 (1).

including petfood,

feed,

3001 (10)

Glands and other organs, dried, whether or not powdered.

Products of animal origin only.

3001 (20 90)

Extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions, other.

Products of animal origin only.

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Description

Qualification and explanation

Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or
diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immu-
nological products, whether or obtained by mean of biotechnical
processes; vaccines,
(excluding
yeasts) and similar products.

toxins, cultures of micro-organisms

Only products of animal origin.

3002 (10 10)

and other blood fractions

and modified immunological
Antisera
products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological
processes.

Antisera of animal origin only.

Excludes prepared medicinal and finished products for
the final consumer.

Under heading 3002 selection requirements are as for
animal by products
covered by Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 9 in:

Annex VII Chapter III, (blood products);

Annex VIII Chapter IV, (blood and blood products for
technical products);

Annex VIII Chapter V (serum of equidae).

3002 (10 99)

Haemoglobin, blood globulins and serum globulins: Other.

Only animal derived material.

3002 (90 30)

Animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses.

Ex 3002 (90 50)

Cultures of micro organisms.

Pathogens and cultures of pathogens.

Ex 3002 (90 90) Other

Pathogens and cultures of pathogens.

Chapter 31: Fertilisers

This chapter does not cover animal blood of heading
0511.

Ex 3101 00 00

Animal fertilisers, whether or not mixed together or chemically treated;
fertilisers produced by mixing or chemical
treatment of animal or
vegetable products.

Only animal derived products in an un-adulterated
form.
but manure-chemical
Includes manure,
mixtures, and fertilisers are excluded.

Chapter 35: Albuminoidal substances; modified starches; glues;
enzymes

Ex 3501

Casein, caseinates and other casein derivatives; casein glues.

Selection requirements for manure, processed manure
or processed manure products are laid down in Regu-
lation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter III.

Casein for human consumption or animal
purposes.

feeding

Selection requirements for milk, milk based products
and colostrum not for human consumption are laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

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Ex 3502

(including concentrates of

Albumins
two or more whey proteins,
containing by weight more than 80 % whey proteins, calculated on the
dry matter), albuminates and other albumin derivatives.

Ex 3503 00

Gelatine (including gelatine in rectangular [including square] sheets,
whether or not surface-worked or coloured) and gelatine derivatives;
isinglass; other glues of animal origin, excluding casein glues of
heading 3501.

Ex 3504 00 00

Peptones and their derivatives; other protein substances and their deriva-
tives, not elsewhere specified or included; hide powder whether or not
chromed.

Includes products derived from eggs and derived from
for
milk whether
human consumption (including animal feed purposes)
as specified below.

for human consumption or not

Egg products
and processed
and dairy products,
products for human consumption are as defined in
Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 Annex I.

Selection requirements for egg products not for human
consumption are
laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002: Annex VII Chapter X; and for milk,
milk based products and colostrums not for human
consumption are
laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002. Annex VII Chapter V.

Gelatine for human consumption and for the food
industry.

Gelatine under heading 9602,
excluded from veterinary checks.

(empty capsules) are

Selection requirements
for gelatine and hydrolysed
protein not for human consumption are laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter VI.

Collagen and Hydrolysed proteins.

requirements

Selection
lysed protein are
No 1774/2002 Annex VII Chapter VI

hydro-
laid down in Regulation (EC)

gelatine

and

for

Includes protein based collagen products derived from
hides, skins and tendons of animals, including bones in
the case of pigs, poultry and fish.

Includes hydrolysed proteins consisting of polypeptides,
peptides or amino acids, and mixtures thereof, obtained
by the hydrolysis of animal by-products.

Includes
consumption.

any milk

by-products

for

human

Ex 3507

Enzymes; prepared enzymes not elsewhere specified or included.

Rennet and concentrates for human consumption.

3507 10 00

Rennet and concentrates thereof.

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Chapter 41: Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather

Hides and skins of ungulates and birds only under
headings 4101, 4102, 4103.

Additional selection requirements for hides and skins
laid down in Regulation (EC)
of ungulates
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VI.

are

4101

4102

4103

Raw hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals
(fresh, or salted, dried,
limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, but not
tanned, parchment-dressed or further prepared), whether or not de-haired
or split.

Veterinary checks only apply to fresh, chilled or treated
hides:

Includes hides dried, dry salted, wet salted, or preserved
by a process other than by tanning.

Raw skins of sheep or lambs (fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or
otherwise preserved, but not
further
prepared), whether or not with wool on or split, other than those
excluded by Note 1(c) to this Chapter.

tanned, parchment-dressed or

Only applies to fresh, chilled or treated hides.

Includes hides dried, dry salted, wet salted, or preserved
by a process other than by tanning.

limed, pickled or
Other raw hides and skins (fresh, or salted, dried,
further
otherwise preserved, but not
prepared), whether or not de-haired or split, other than those excluded
by Note 1(b) or 1(c) to this Chapter.

tanned, parchment-dressed or

Includes only fresh, chilled or treated hides.

Includes hides and skins of birds or fish and possibly
game trophies.

Chapter 42: Articles of leather; saddlery and harness; travel goods,
handbags and similar containers; articles of animal gut (other than
silkworm gut)

1. This chapter does not cover (amongst other products) the following of veterinary interest:

(a) sterile surgical catgut or similar sterile suture materials (heading 3006);

(b) strings, skins for drums or the like, or other parts of musical instruments (heading 9209).

4205 00 00

Other articles of leather or of composition leather.

Includes material for manufacture of dog chews.

Ex 4206

Articles of gut (other than silkworm gut) of goldbeater’s skin, of bladders
or of tendons.

Also includes material for manufacture dog chews.

Chapter 43: Furskins and artificial fur; manufactures thereof

1. Throughout the combined nomenclature, references to ‘furskins’, other than raw furskins of heading 4301, apply to hides and skins of all animals

which have been tanned or dressed with the wool on.

2. This chapter does not cover:

(a) birdskins or parts of birdskins, with their feathers or down (heading 0505 or 6701);

(b) raw hides or skins, with the hair or wool on, of Chapter 41 (see note 1(c) to that chapter).

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Description

Qualification and explanation

Raw furskins (including heads, tails, paws and other pieces or cuttings,
suitable for furriers’ use), other than raw hides and skins of headings
4101, 4102 or 4103.

Of birds or ungulates only.

4301 (30 00)

Of lamb, the following: Astrakhan, Broadtail, Caracul, Persian and similar
lamb,
Indian, Chinese, Mongolian, or Tibetan lamb, whole, with or
without the head, tail, or paws.

Additional selection requirements for hides and skins
of ungulates
laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VI.

are

4301 (80 80)

Other

Of birds or ungulates only.

4301 (90 00)

Heads Tails paws and other pieces or cuttings suitable for furriers use.

Chapter 51: Wool, fine or coarse animal hair; horsehair yarn and
woven fabric

(a) ‘Wool’ means the fine fibre grown by sheep or lambs.

(b) ‘Fine animal hair’ means the hair of alpaca, llama, vicuna, camel, yak, angora, Tibetan, Kashmir or similar goats (but not common goats), rabbit,

(including angora rabbit), hare, beaver, nutria or muskrat.

(c) ‘Coarse animal hair’ means the hair of animals not mentioned above, excluding brush-making hair and bristles (heading 0502) and horsehair

(heading 0503).

headings

5101-5103. Additional

For
requirements
parts of
No 1774/2002 Annex VIII Chapter VIII.

selection
and
feathers are laid down in Regulation (EC)

for wool, pig bristles,

feathers

‘Unprocessed’ is as defined for the relevant product in
Annex I to the above Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002.

5101

Wool, not carded or combed.

Unprocessed wool

5102

Fine or coarse animal hair, not carded or combed.

Unprocessed hair

Ex 5103

Waste of wool or of fine or coarse animal hair, including yarn waste but
excluding garneted stock.

Unprocessed wool

5103 (10 10)

Not carbonised noils of wool.

Unprocessed wool

Chapter 95: Toys, games and sports requisites; parts and accessories
thereof

Ex 9508

Roundabouts,
amusements;
theatres.

swings

shooting

galleries

and

other

travelling circuses and travelling menageries;

fairground
travelling

Circuses and menageries with live animals.

9508 10

Travelling circuses and travelling menageries.

Circuses and menageries with live animals.

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CN code

Description

Qualification and explanation

Chapter 97: Works of art, collectors’ pieces and antiques

Ex 9705 00 00

Collections and collectors’ pieces of zoological, botanical, mineralogical,
anatomical, historical, archaeological, palaeontological, ethnographic or
numismatic interest.

Animal derived products only.

Additional selection requirements for game trophies are
laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 Annex
VIII Chapter VII.

Excludes game trophies from ungulates or birds having
undergone a complete taxidermy treatment ensuring
their preservation at ambient temperatures and game
trophies from other species than ungulates and birds
(whether treated or untreated).

(1) OJ L 379, 28.12.2006, p. 98.

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Foodstuffs not subject to veterinary checks under Directive 97/78/EC in accordance with Article 6.1. (b) of this Decision

ANNEX II

Biscuits

Bread

Cakes

Chocolate

Confectionery (including sweets)

Unfilled gelatine capsules

Food supplements packaged for the final consumer, containing small amounts of animal product, and those including
glucosamine, chondroitin, or chitosan.

Meat extracts and meat concentrates.

Olives stuffed with fish.

Pasta and noodles not mixed or filled with meat product.

Soup stocks and flavourings packaged for the final consumer, containing meat extracts, meat concentrates, animal fats, or
fish oils, powders or extracts.