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VETERINARY CHECKS, ANIMAL HEALTH RULES, HYGIENE OF FOOD

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IMPORTS FROM THIRD COUNTRIES AND INTRA-COMMUNITY TRADE

General provisions

• Animal health rules governing the production, placing on the market and importation of products of animal origin intended for human consumption
• Official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption
• Veterinary checks in intra-Community trade
• Veterinary and zootechnical checks applicable in intra-Community trade in certain live animals and animal products
• Veterinary checks on animals entering the Community from third countries
• Veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries
• Animal health requirements governing trade in and imports into the Community of animals, semen, ova and embryos
• Animal health requirements governing trade in and imports of certain products of animal origin
• Zootechnical and pedigree requirements for the marketing of pure-bred animals
• Measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products

Exchange of information

• Mutual assistance between national administrations
• ANIMO system
• SHIFT system
• CIS system

Specific provisions

• Bovine and porcine animals:
  • Health and veterinary problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products
  • Intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine
  • Intra-Community trade in and imports of bovine embryos
  • Intra-Community trade in pure-bred breeding animals of the bovine species
  • Intra-Community trade in purebred breeding pigs
  • Intra-Community trade in and imports of bovine semen
  • Intra-Community trade in and imports of porcine semen
  • Detecting the presence of trichinae
• Ovine and caprine animals:
  • Health and veterinary problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products
  • Intra-Community trade in ovine and caprine animals
  • Intra-Community trade in purebred breeding sheep and goats
• Poultry:
  • Intra-Community trade in poultry and hatching eggs
  • Health problems affecting trade in fresh poultrymeat
  • Trade in and importations of fresh poultry meat
• Equidae:
  • Movement and import of equidae
  • Zootechnical and genealogical conditions governing intra-Community trade in equidae
  • Intra-Community trade in equidae intended for competitions
• Meat and meat-based products:
  • Health and veterinary problems upon importation of bovine, ovine and caprine animals and swine, fresh meat or meat products
  • Health problems affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat
  • Health conditions and hygiene rules affecting intra-Community trade in fresh meat products
  • Health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat products
  • Animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in meat based products
  • Substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and beta-agonists

PRODUCTION AND PLACING ON THE MARKET

General provisions

• Animal health rules governing the production, placing on the market and importation of products of animal origin intended for human consumption
• Official controls on products of animal origin intended for human consumption

Specific provisions

• Meat:
  • Health problems affecting  the production and marketing of fresh meat
  • Production of and the trade in minced meat and meat preparations
  • Production and marketing of rabbit meat and farmed game meat
  • Killing of and  placing on the market of wild game meat
• Other products:
  • Production and marketing of egg products
  • Production and placing on the market of  milk and milk-based products
  • Production and placing on the market of heat-treated milk
  • Hygiene in milk production holdings
  • Production and marketing of fishery products
  • Fishery products caught on board certain vessels
  • Health requirements for the marketing of aquaculture products
  • Production and the placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs
• Other:
  • Animal health requirements applicable to the non-commercial movement of pet animals

HYGIENE OF FOODSTUFFS

• New scheme governing the hygiene of foodstuffs
• Specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin
• Hygiene of foodstuffs
• Official inspection of foodstuffs
• Additional measures concerning the control of foodstuffs
• Methods of sampling and analysis for the monitoring of foodstuffs intended for human consumption