Article 29

Article 7 of Directive 90/425/EEC is hereby replaced by the following: 'Article 7 1. Member States shall ensures that during the checks carried out at the places where animals and products referred to in Article 1 from a third country may be brought into the territories referred to in Annex I to Directive 90/675/EEC (*), such as ports, airports and border inspection posts with third countries, the following measures are taken: certificates or documents accompanying the animals and products are checked; (b) the products from third countries shall be subject to the rules laid down by Directive 90/675/EEC; (c) where animals are imported from third countries, they must be sent, under customs supervision, to border inspection posts in order that veterinary checks may be carried out. The animals referred to in Annex A may not be given customs clearance unless those checks have shown that they comply with Community rules; (d) Community animals and products shall be subject to the control rules laid down in Article 5. 2. The animals must be brought directly into Community territory via one of the border inspection posts of the Member State which intends to import them and be inspected there in accordance with paragraph 1 (b). Member States which make imports from third countries on the basis of national animal health rules shall inform the Commission and the other Member States, in particular Member States of transit, of the existence of such imports and of the requirements to which they subject such imports. Member States of destination shall prohibit animals from being sent on from their territory unless they have remained there for the periods laid down in the specific Community rules unless they are bound, without transit, for another Member State using the same option. However, pending the adoption of Community rules, those animals may be brought into the territory of a Member State other than that referred to in the second subparagraph following prior agreement given by that other Member State in a general manner and, where appropriate, by a Member State of transit on the arrangements for control. Member States shall inform the Commission and the other Member States in the framework of the Standing Veterinary Committee when they are making use of this derogation and of the control arrangements agreed upon. 3. However, from 1 January 1993 and by way of derogation from paragraph 1, all animals and products transported by regular, direct means of transport linking two geographical points of the Community shall be subject to the control rules laid down in Article 5. (*) OJ N° L 373, 31. 12. 1990, p. 1.`

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-06 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.