IMPORT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE

IMPORT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE for fresh meat imported from third countries

IMPORT INSPECTION CERTIFICATE FOR FRESH MEAT/MEAT PRODUCTS (1) IMPORTED FROM THIRD COUNTRIES

(1) If the determination or clarification of a specific important fact requires an inspection in person, an inspection shall be carried out.

For this purpose, reasonable access shall be given, upon request, to the importing Member for inspection, testing and other relevant procedures.

a) prescribe and adopt phytosanitary measures concerning the importation of plants, plant products and other regulated articles, including, for example, inspection, prohibition on importation, and treatment;

(ii) the preshipment inspection entity shall not rely upon the price of goods offered for export to different countries of importation to arbitrarily impose the lowest price upon the shipment;

The EU underlines the importance of further improvements to the system of judicial inspections, including staff increases, as well greater transparency in the inspection of prosecution offices.

User Members shall ensure that a price or currency exchange rate that has been accepted by a preshipment inspection entity on the basis of such preliminary verification is not withdrawn, providing the goods conform to the import documentation and/or import licence.

The submission of the phytosanitary certificate does not exclude the right of the importing state to perform the phytosanitary inspection of supplied plant consignments and to take the appropriate measures.

(e) Exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the expert concerned;

(f) Exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the counsel concerned;

(g) Exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the official concerned;

The provision and functioning of effective overside lighting, means of alerting the crew and passengers and provision of illuminated routes to assembly points and embarkation positions will be given importance in the inspection.

(b) exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles not for personal use or articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the expert concerned;

(c) exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles not for personal use or articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the official concerned;

User Members shall ensure that, whenever so requested by the exporters, preshipment inspection entities undertake, prior to the date of physical inspection, a preliminary verification of price and, where applicable, of currency exchange rate, on the basis of the contract between exporter and importer, the pro forma invoice and, where applicable, the application for import authorization.

(b) exemption from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles not for personal use or articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the State Party concerned; an inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the agent, counsel or advocate concerned;

(d) the confidentiality of information about imported products arising from or supplied in connection with control, inspection and approval is respected in a way no less favourable than for domestic products and in such a manner that legitimate commercial interests are protected;

e) Any inspection or other phytosanitary procedure required by the plant protection organization of a contracting party for a consignment of plants, plant products or other regulated articles offered for importation, shall take place as promptly as possible with due regard to their perishability.

Each exported plant consignment which is subject to phytosanitary inspection must be accompanied by a phytosanitary certificate, issued by a body of the plant quarantine and protection service, confirming that this consignment does not contain pests which are quarantine pests in the importing state.

(h) be exempt from inspection of personal baggage, unless there are serious grounds for believing that the baggage contains articles not for personal use or articles the import or export of which is prohibited by the law or controlled by the quarantine regulations of the Party concerned; and inspection in such a case shall be conducted in the presence of the official concerned, and in the case of official baggage, in the presence of the Secretary-General or his or her authorized representative;

(a) preshipment inspection entities shall only reject a contract price agreed between an exporter and an importer if they can demonstrate that their findings of an unsatisfactory price are based on a verification process which is in conformity with the criteria set out in subparagraphs (b) through (e);

Preshipment inspection entities shall share confidential business information with the governments contracting or mandating them only to the extent that such information is customarily required for letters of credit or other forms of payment or for customs, import licensing or exchange control purposes.

(g) The members of the inspection team shall be permitted to bring into the territory of the inspected State Party, without payment of any customs duties or related charges, articles for personal use, with the exception of articles the import or export of which is prohibited by law or controlled by quarantine regulations;

If during a phytosanitary inspection a quarantine pest is found, or some other violations of the plant quarantine regulations of the importing country are ascertained, then competent bodies of the Contracting Parties are entitled to refuse the import of such commodity of plant origin, or to destroy it or to perform other urgent phytosanitary measure.

(1) A person who works in the air traffic navigation services, aviation and other professional staff of air carriers, staff who maintain airport aprons, facilities, equipment and installations at an airport, important for the safety of air traffic, personnel of the meteorological service for aviation (air meteorological service), personnel for reception and dispatch of aircraft, passengers and /cargo/, personal security, rescue and firefighting services, services of emergency medical aid or first aid and personnel of other services referred to in Article 89 of this Act and compulsory inspection services which must be organised at public airports under the provisions of this Act, shall exercise the right to strike on condition of guaranteeing the safety of air traffic in compliance with the provisions of this Act and other regulations which regulate strikes, and collective contracts.

Agreement on Agriculture, Article 19; Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, paragraph 1 of Article 11; Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, paragraph 4 of Article 8; Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade, paragraph 1 of Article 14; Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures, Article 8; Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994, paragraph 2 of Article 17; Agreement on Implementation of Article VII of GATT 1994, paragraph 2 of Article 19; Agreement on Preshipment Inspection, Article 7; Agreement on Rules of Origin, Article 7; Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures, Article 6; Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, Article 30; Agreement on Safeguards, Article 14; Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, Article 64.1; and any corresponding consultation provisions in Plurilateral Trade Agreements as determined by the competent bodies of each Agreement and as notified to the DSB.

The certificate accompanying bovine animals and swine on importation must, following the animal health inspection (import inspection) state clearly whether the animals have been admitted or refused entry.

The Member States shall ensure that importers are obliged to give notice at least two working days in advance to the local department responsible for import inspection at the post where the fresh meat is to be submitted for inspection, specifying the amount, the nature of the meat and the time from which the inspection may be carried out.

5. ecological inspection of imports and temporary imports; and

Animals which have obtained an import authorisation and whose destination is not the Member State which carried out the import inspection laid down in paragraph 1, must be directed to the country of destination under customs control without being unloaded.

be worded at least in one of the official languages of the country of destination and in one of the official languages of the country carrying out the import inspection provided for in Article 12;

the inspection posts for the importing of fresh meat.

whereas it must be laid down that, in order that such import inspection may be standardised, the rules for its application are to be adopted according to a procedure in which the Commission and the Member States cooperate closely;

Whereas each consignment of fresh meat admitted to a Member State following the import inspection must; in the case of fresh meat re-routed to another Member State, with the exception of meat cut up after importation in an approved cutting plant, be accompanied by a certificate officially stating that the prescribed import requirements have been fulfilled;

-changes of important programs and procedures (for example, the in-service inspection (ISI)

Whereas inspection carried out upon importation must also cover the origin and the state of health of the animals;

The Member States shall ensure that each batch of fresh meat is subjected to a public health inspection on importation and to an animal health inspection carried out by an official veterinarian.

the importer can prove at the border inspection post that an approved quarantine facility or centre will accept the birds.

(2) The Minister shall determine the manner of execution of the ecological inspection of permanently or temporarily imported goods.

If the fresh meat cannot be imported it must be refused entry, unless reasons connected with animal inspection or public health oppose this.

Without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph 3, the Member States shall ensure that importation is prohibited when this inspection reveals that:

COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 12 December 1972 on health and veterinary inspection problems upon importation of bovine animals and swine and fresh meat from third countries

Since the Community logo indicating that products are covered by the specific inspection scheme may be used for products imported from third countries, it is appropriate to provide, for reasons of clarity, that equivalent inspection requirements are to be applied to those products.

this transport has been previously authorised by the competent authorities of the Member States in the territory of which the health inspection on importation is carried out;