Article 8

Products for which the veterinary requirements governing trade have been harmonized at Community level and which have been presented at one of the points of entry to the territory defined in Annex I must meet the following requirements: 1. If the point of entry is a border inspection post, the products must undergo without delay the checks provided for in Article 4 (1) and in point 2 below: ensure that the checks provided for in Article 4 (1) have been satisfactorily performed, carry out the checks provided for in point 2. (b) the point of entry is a crossing point of the kind referred to in Article 4 (2), or if the products come from a warehouse in accordance with Article 6 (3), they must be transferred without delay under customs supervision to the nearest border inspection post where the official veterinarian must: 2. The official veterinarian must: (a) carry out a physical check on each consignment, on the basis of a representative sample of the consignment in order to ensure that the products are still in a fit state to be used for the purpose specified in the accompanying certificate or document; (b) perform the laboratory tests which have to be carried out on-the-spot; (c) take official samples to be examined for residues or pathogens and have them analysed as soon as possible. The official veterinarian may be assisted in certain of these tasks by qualified staff with special training, working under his direction. 3. The detailed rules for carrying out the checks provided for in points 1 and 2 shall be laid down by the Commission under the procedure provided for in Article 24. At the request of a Member State, accompanied by the requisite substantiating information, or acting on its own initiative, the Commission may follow the same procedure and determine that checks are to be less frequent, under certain conditions and in the light in particular of the results of previous checks, with respect to certain third countries or third country establishments offering satisfactory guarantees as regards checks at the point of origin. The Commission will take into account the following criteria for granting derogations of this nature: the guarantees offered by the third country in question with respect to compliance with Community requirements, particularly those laid down in Directives 72/462/EEC and 90/426/EEC (1); (b) the health situation of animals in the third country concerned; (c) information on the general health situation in the country; (d) nature of the measures to monitor and to combat disease applied by the third country; (e) structures and powers of the veterinary service; (f) compliance with the minimum standards laid down by Community law in regard to production hygiene; (g) rules on the authorization of certain substances and compliance with the requirements set out in Article 7 of Directive 86/469/EEC (2); (h) outcome of the Community inspection visits; (i) outcome of the import controls carried out. 4. However, by way of derogation from point 2, for products entering a port or airport in one of the territories referred to in Annex I, the checks may be carried out in the port or airport of destination, provided that such port or airport has a border inspection post of the kind referred to in Article 2 and the products are transported by sea or air as the case may be.

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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.