PART 4 SAFEGUARD MEASURES

29 Safeguard measures
1  Where the Department or the Agency—
(a) has reasonable grounds for suspecting the existence of a disease, zoonosis, phenomenon or circumstance in a country outside Northern Ireland such that animals or products originating from the whole or part of the country concerned are liable to pose risk to human or animal health; or
Words in reg. 29(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animals (Health, Identification, Trade and Veterinary Medicines) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/353), regs. 1(3), 8(5)
(b) is of the opinion that there is serious non-compliance with official control rules under the EU Regulation in relation to imports from the European Union, or equivalent official controls rules in countries other than a member State;
the Department or the Agency may publish a written declaration of the special measures necessary in Northern Ireland in order to contain the risk to human or animal health or the risk of non-compliant animals or products entering into Northern Ireland.
2 The special measures that the Department or the Agency may require include—
(a) suspension of entry into Northern Ireland of any animal or product originating in or dispatched from the whole or part of the country concerned;
(b) imposition of conditions requiring that any animal or products—
(i) prior to dispatch, or on arrival, are made the subject of specific treatment or controls;
(ii) be accompanied by an official certificate, an official attestation, or any other evidence (in any format that may be specified) that any import from the European Union complies with established official control rules under the EU Regulation and any relevant Implementing Regulations and Delegated Regulations made under it or equivalent rules in other countries;
(c) such other measures that the Department or the Agency considers necessary to contain the risk.
3 The declaration must be published in such a manner as the Department or the Agency (as the case may be) thinks fit and may be amended or revoked by further declaration at any time.
4 No person may import anything in breach of any measures mentioned in any such declaration.
Reg. 29 substituted (14.12.2019) by The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2019 (S.R. 2019/227), regs. 1, 20(25)