PART 1 Introduction

Exemptions3

1

These Regulations do not apply to products introduced into Wales from a third country with the previous authorisation of the National Assembly for Wales as trade samples, for exhibition, or for particular studies or analyses.

2

The National Assembly of Wales's authorisation shall be in writing, may be made subject to conditions, and may be amended, suspended or revoked in writing at any time.

3

Part 3, with the exception of regulation 25, and Parts 4 to 10 do not apply to-—

a

powdered infant milk, infant food, or special foods required for medical reasons containing meat, meat products, milk, or milk products from a third country if—

i

they form part of a traveller's personal luggage and are intended for the traveller's personal consumption or use;

ii

they do not exceed in quantity that which could reasonably be consumed by an individual;

iii

they do not require refrigeration before opening;

iv

they are packaged proprietary brand products for direct sale to the final consumer; and

v

their packaging is unbroken, unless they are in current use;

b

meat, meat products, milk or milk products from the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, the Republic of Iceland, Liechtenstein, or Switzerland if—

i

they form part of a traveller's personal luggage, or are sent by post or carrier (otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample) and are addressed to a private individual in Wales;

ii

they are intended for the personal consumption of the traveller or the addressee, as the case may be; and

iii

their combined total weight in any traveller's personal luggage or in any consignment sent by post or carrier to a private individual does not exceed 5 kilograms; or

c

products in the personal luggage of a traveller if they are intended for the traveller's personal consumption or which are sent by post or carrier (otherwise than by way of trade or as a trade sample) and addressed to a private individual in Wales, if they are intended for private individual's personal consumption, and if they—

i

are not meat, meat products, milk or milk products;

ii

do not exceed one kilogram in weight;

iii

come from a third country or part of a third country from which their importation is permitted in accordance with a list drawn up by an instrument in Schedule 1; and

iv

do not come from a third country or part of a third country from which their importation is prohibited by any instrument in Schedule 1.

4

In this regulation “meat” (“cig”), “meat products” (“cynhyrchion cig”), “milk” (“llaeth”) and “milk products” (“cynhyrchion llaeth”) mean products of those types listed in sections 01 — 04 under the heading I.2, Title I in the Annex to Commission Decision 2002/349/EC.