Regulations, 2010

L.N. 266 of 2010

MALTA VETERINARY SERVICES ACT

(CAP. 437)

Principles Governing the Organisation of Veterinary Checks

on Animals Entering the Community from Third Countries via

Border Inspection Posts of Malta (Amendment)

Regulations, 2010

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 16 of the

Veterinary Services Act, the Minister for Resources and Rural

Affairs has made the following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Principles Governing

the Organisation of Veterinary Checks on Animals Entering the

Community from Third Countries via Border Inspection Posts of

Malta (Amendment) Regulations, 2010 and they shall be read and

construed as one with the Principles Governing the Organisation

of Veterinary Checks on Animals Entering the Community from

Third Countries via Border Inspection Posts of Malta Regulations,

2003 hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”.

(1) In regulation 2 of the principal regulations,

immediately after the words “during quarantines” in the definition

(f) “physical check”, there shall be added the following new

definitions:-

“(g) “the Act” means the Veterinary Services Act;

(h) “the Community” means the European Community

as established under the Treaty establishing the European

Community;

(i) “the Competent Authority” means the Veterinary

Services Authority of Malta as established by the Act;

(j) “Member State” means a state which is a member of

the European Union;

(k) “place of arrival or destination” means such Member

State of the Community to which animals are transported

from a third country;”;

(l) “quarantine centres” means centres or facilities in

which animals that may have or have a disease are kept

away from other animals and, or any person for a period

of time so that the disease cannot spread, intended as a

safeguard measure to be complied with during importation

and transportation of animals. These are also intended for the

purpose of ensuring that in areas where national rules on trade

are not adhered to, such centres provide for live animals to be

placed in quarantine or isolation;

(m) “third country” means a country which is not a

member state of the European Union;

(n) “trade” means trade between Member States or

between a third country and a Member State in animals and

their products, a business or occupation to make profit or gain,

particularly in wholesale or retail sales and includes dealings

in a particular business activity.”.

(2) The definition “trading partner” shall be deleted.

For sub-regulation (4) of regulation 10 of the principal

regulations, there shall be substituted the following:-

“(4) Quarantine centres referred to in paragraph (b)

of sub-regulation (1) hereof and in paragraph (a) of sub-

regulation (2) of this regulation that fulfill the conditions laid

down in Schedule B to these regulations, shall be approved by

the Competent Authority, each centre being given an approval

number. The Competent Authority shall thereafter, draw up

and keep updated a list of approved quarantine centres and

their approval numbers and make it available to the other

Member States and to the public. Quarantine centres shall be

subject to the inspection provided for in regulation 19 of these

regulations.”.

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