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(Non-legislative acts)
DECISIONS
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION
of 21 December 2011
amending Annex I to Decision 2007/275/EC concerning the lists of animals and products to be
subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC
(notified under document C(2011) 9517)
(Text with EEA relevance)
(2012/31/EU)
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
(4) Commission
Decision
2007/275/EC
( 3 ) provides that the
animals and products of animal origin listed in Annex I
thereto are to be subjected to veterinary checks at border
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
inspection posts in accordance with Directives
Union,
91/496/EEC and 97/78/EC (the veterinary checks).
Having regard to Council Directive 91/496/EEC of 15 July
1991 laying down the principles governing the organisation
(5) The
animals
and
products
required
to
undergo
the
of veterinary checks on animals entering the Community
veterinary checks should be clearly identifiable.
from third countries and amending Directives 89/662/EEC,
Accordingly, the list set out in Annex I to Decision
90/425/EEC and 90/675/EEC ( 1 ), and in particular Article 4(5)
2007/275/EC should be brought into line with the termi
thereof,
nology and references laid down in Regulation (EC)
No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 21 October 2009 laying down health rules as
Having regard to Council Directive 97/78/EC of 18 December
regards animal by-products and derived products not
1997 laying down the principles governing the organisation of
intended for human consumption and repealing Regu
veterinary checks on products entering the Community from
lation (EC) No 1774/2002 (Animal by-products Regu
third countries ( 2 ), and in particular Article 3(5) thereof,
lation) ( 4 ) and Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011
of 25 February 2011 implementing Regulation (EC)
No 1069/2009 of the European Parliament and of the
Whereas:
Council laying down health rules as regards animal by-
products and derived products not intended for human
consumption and implementing Council Directive
(1) Directive
91/496/EEC
provides
for
veterinary
checks
in
97/78/EC as regards certain samples and items exempt
respect of animals from third countries entering the
from veterinary checks at the border under that
Union to be carried out by the Member States in
Directive ( 5 ).
accordance with that Directive.
(2) Directive
97/78/EC
provides
for
veterinary
checks
on (6) The
list
set
out
in
Annex
I
to
Decision
2007/275/EC
sets
certain products of animal origin and certain plant
out animals and products according to the Combined
products introduced into the Union from third countries.
Nomenclature (CN), as provided for in Council Regu
lation (EEC) No 2658/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff
and statistical nomenclature and on the Common
(3) Those
Directives
provide
that
the
customs
authorities
of
Customs Tariff
( 6 ), as a first reference to select
the Member States are not to allow the importation into
consignments that are to be submitted to the veterinary
the Union of the animals and products concerned unless
checks.
those veterinary checks have been carried out with satis
factory results at border inspection posts.
( 3 ) OJ L 116, 4.5.2007, p. 9.
( 4 ) OJ L 300, 14.11.2009, p. 1.
( 1 ) OJ L 268, 24.9.1991, p. 56.
( 5 ) OJ L 54, 26.2.2011, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 9.
( 6 ) OJ L 256, 7.9.1987, p. 1.

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(7) The
CN
codes
laid
down
in
that
Regulation
have
been
updated to take account of the recent amendments to the
updated several times since the date of adoption of
CN codes and to the necessary references in column 3 of
Decision 2007/275/EC. Considerable changes were
the list.
introduced to CN codes for products of animal origin.
In addition, Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, as
amended by Commission Regulation (EU) (11) The list set out in Annex I to Decision 2007/275/EC
No 1228/2010 ( 1 ) introduced CN codes for the
should therefore be replaced by the list in the Annex
movements of specific goods, such as for ship supply.
to this Decision. Decision 2007/275/EC should
As those CN codes might concern products of animal
therefore be amended accordingly.
origin, they should be added to the list set out in Annex I
to Decision 2007/275/EC.
(12) The
measures provided for in this Decision are in
(8) The
Union’s
Trade
Control
and
Expert
System
(Traces)
set
accordance with the opinion of the Standing
up by Commission Decision 2004/292/EC of 30 March
Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health,
2004 on the introduction of the Traces system and
amending Decision 92/486/EEC ( 2 ) initially identified
animals and products of animal origin with the four
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
digit headings of the CN. Traces has subsequently been
updated and certain animals and products of animal
origin can be identified by their six or eight digit
Article 1
subheadings of the CN codes to avoid misclassification
of goods. Relevant references in the list set out in
Annex I to Decision 2007/275/EC is replaced by the text in the
Annex I to Decision 2007/275/EC should be amended
Annex to this Decision.
accordingly.
Article 2
(9) For
certain
CN
codes,
Decision
2007/275/EC
is
only
concerned with a fraction of the scope of the relevant
This Decision shall apply from 1 January 2012.
Chapter or heading of the CN. In such cases, column 3
of the list set out in Annex I to that Decision refers to
the applicable Union veterinary legislation and provides
Article 3
details of the animals and products which are to be
subjected to veterinary checks. Taking account of the
This Decision is addressed to the Member States.
terminology and references now provided for in Regu
lation (EC) No 1069/2009 and in Regulation (EU)
No 142/2011, those references in Decision 2007/275/EC
Done at Brussels, 21 December 2011.
should be updated to take account of current Union
legislation.
For the Commission
(10) In
the
interest
of
consistency
of
Union
legislation,
the
list
John DALLI
set out in Annex I to Decision 2007/275/EC should be
Member of the Commission
( 1 ) OJ L 336, 21.12.2010, p. 17.
( 2 ) OJ L 94, 31.3.2004, p. 63.

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ANNEX
‘ANNEX I
LIST OF ANIMALS AND PRODUCTS SUBJECT TO VETERINARY CHECKS AS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 3
This list sets out animals and products according to the goods nomenclature in use in the Union to determine
the selection of consignments that must be submitted to veterinary checks at a border inspection post.
Notes to the table:
1. General remarks
These general remarks are added to certain chapters to clarify, which animals or products would be covered with the
relevant chapter. In addition, where necessary, reference is made to the specific requirements laid down in the fourth
column “import and transit conditions” of various tables set out in Annexes XIII and XIV to Regulation (EU)
No 142/2011, similar as in Column (3) of this list.
2. Note to Chapter
These chapter notes are explanations, where necessary extracted, from the Notes to the individual Chapters of the
Combined Nomenclature (CN) as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87.
3. Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Additional information on the different Chapters has been extracted, where necessary, from the Harmonised System
Explanatory Notes of the World Customs Organisation from 2007.
4. Column (1) — CN code
This column indicates the CN code. The CN, established by Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87, is based on the inter
national Harmonised Commodity Description and Coding System (HS) drawn up by the Customs Cooperation
Council, now the World Customs Organisation (WCO), adopted by the International Convention, concluded in
Brussels on 14 June 1983 and approved on behalf of the European Economic Community by Council Decision
87/369/EEC ( 1 ) (“the HS Convention”). The CN reproduces the headings and subheadings of the HS to six digits, with
only the seventh and eighth figures creating further subheadings which are specific to it.
Where a four digit code is used: unless otherwise specified, all products prefixed with or covered by these four digits
must be submitted to veterinary checks at a border inspection post. In most of these cases, the relevant CN codes
included in the Traces system set up by Decision 2004/292/EC are broken down to the six or eight digit code.
Where only certain specified products under any four, six or eight digit code are required to be submitted to veterinary
checks and no specific subdivision under this code exists in the CN, the code is marked Ex (for example, Ex 3002:
veterinary checks required only for animal derived material, including hay and straw, and not for the entire heading,
subheading or CN code). The relevant codes are also included in the Traces system.
5. Column (2) — Description
The description of the goods is as laid down in the description column of the CN in Annex I to Regulation (EEC)
No 2658/87. For further explanation of the exact coverage of the Common Customs Tariff, please refer to the latest
amendment to that Annex.
6. Column (3) — Qualification and explanation
This column gives details of the animals or products covered. Further information on the animals or products covered
in the different Chapters of the CN can be found in the latest version of the Explanatory Notes to the Combined
Nomenclature of the European Union ( 2 ). For updated information, please refer to the latest amendment or
consolidated version of these Explanatory Notes.
For certain live animals (such as reptiles, amphibians, insects, worms, or other invertebrates) and certain animal
products, no specific Union import conditions have currently been agreed; therefore, no harmonised import certificates
currently exist.
( 1 ) OJ L 198, 20.7.1987, p. 1.
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However, conditions for imports of live animals, not specified in other Union legislation, fall within the scope of
Directive 92/65/EC ( 1 ). In addition, for such animals, national rules on the documentation accompanying such
consignments apply. Official veterinarians must examine the consignments and issue a Common Veterinary Entry
Document (CVED) as appropriate to indicate that the veterinary checks have been carried out and that the animals
may be released for free circulation.
Products derived from animal by-products covered by Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 and (EU) No 142/2011 are not
specifically identified in Union law. Veterinary checks must be carried out on products that are partly processed but
remain raw products to be further processed in an approved or registered establishment at destination.
Official veterinarians at border inspection posts must assess and specify, when necessary, if a derived product is
sufficiently processed to not require further the veterinary checks provided for in Union legislation.
TABLE
Without prejudice to the rules for the interpretation of the CN, the wording for the description of goods in column 2
is considered to be of indicative value only, since the goods covered by this Decision are determined, within this
Annex, by CN codes.
Where there is an “Ex” symbol in front of a CN code, the goods covered by this Decision are determined by the scope
of the CN code and by that of the corresponding description in column (2) and the qualification and explanation in
column (3).
CHAPTER 1
Live animals
Note to Chapter 1
1. This chapter covers all live animals, except:
(a) fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates, of heading 0301, 0306, 0307 or 0308;
(b) cultures of micro-organisms and other products of heading 3002 and
(c) animals of heading 9508.
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Heading 0106 includes, inter alia, the following domestic or wild animals:
(A) Mammals
(1) Primates.
(2) Whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea); manatees and dugongs (mammals of the
order Sirenia); seals, sea lions and walruses (mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia).
(3) Other (such as reindeer, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, bears, elephants, camels, zebras, rabbits, hares, deer, antelope,
chamois, foxes, mink, and other animals for fur farms).
(B) Reptiles (including snakes and turtles)
(C) Birds
(1) Birds of Prey.
(2) Psittaciformes (including parrots, parakeets, macaws and cockatoos).
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(3) Other (such as partridges, pheasants, quail, woodcocks, snipe, pigeons, grouse, ortolan, wild ducks, wild geese,
thrushes, blackbirds, larks, finches, tits, humming birds, peacocks, swans, and other birds not specified in
heading 0105).
(D) Other, such as bees (whether or not travelling in boxes or cages or hives), other insects, frogs.
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
0101 Live
horses,
asses,
mules
and
All
hinnies
0102 Live
bovine
animals All
0103 Live
swine All
0104 10 Live
sheep All
0104 20 Live
goats All
0105 Live
poultry,
that
is
to
say,
fowls
of
All
the species Gallus domesticus, ducks,
geese, turkeys and guinea fowls
0106 Other
live
animals All,
covers
all
animals
from
the
following
subheadings:
0106 11 00 (primates)
0106 12 00 (whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of
the order Cetacea); manatees and dugongs (mammals of the
order Sirenia); seals, sea lions and walruses (mammals of the
suborder Pinnipedia)
0106 13 00 (camels and other camelids (Camelidae))
0106 14 10 (domestic rabbits)
0106 14 90 (other rabbits and hares than domestic rabbits)
0106 19 00 (other): mammals other than those of heading
0101, 0102, 0103, 0104, 0106 11, 0106 12, 0106 13 and
0106 14; covers dogs and cats
0106 20 00 (reptiles, including snakes and turtles)
0106 31 00 (birds: birds of prey)
0106 32 00 (birds: psittaciformes, including parrots,
parakeets, macaws and cockatoos)
0106 33 00 (ostriches; emus (dromaius novaehollandiae)
0106 39 (other): covers birds, other than those of heading
0105, 0106 31, 0106 32 and 0106 33, including pigeons.
0106 41 00 (bees)
0106 49 00 (other insects than bees)
0106 90 00 (other): all other live animals not covered
elsewhere, other than mammals, birds and reptiles. Live
frogs whether for vivaria to be kept alive, or to be killed
for human consumption, are covered by this heading.
CHAPTER 2
Meat and edible meat offal
Note to Chapter 2
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) Products of a kind described in headings 0201 to 0208 or 0210 unfit or unsuitable for human consumption;
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(c) animal fat, other than the products of heading 0209 (Chapter 15).
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
0201 Meat
of
bovine
animals,
fresh
or
All
chilled
0202 Meat
of
bovine
animals,
frozen All
0203 Meat
of
swine,
fresh,
chilled
or
All
frozen
0204 Meat
of
sheep
or
goats,
fresh,
All
chilled or frozen
0205 00 Meat
of
horses,
asses,
mules
or
All
hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
0206 Edible
offal
of
bovine
animals,
All
swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses,
mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or
frozen
0207 Meat
and
edible
offal,
of
the
All
poultry of heading 0105, fresh,
chilled or frozen
0208 Other
meat
and
edible
meat
offal,
All, excludes: raw material not intended/suitable for human
fresh, chilled or frozen
consumption.
This covers other raw material for the production of gelatine
or collagen for human consumption.
Covers all meat and edible meat offal from the following
subheadings:
0208 10 (of rabbits or hares)
0208 30 00 (of primates)
0208 40 (of whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the
order Cetacea); of manatees and dugongs (mammals of the
order Sirenia); of seals, sea lions and walruses (mammals of
the suborder Pinnipedia))
0208 50 00 (of reptiles, including snakes and turtles)
0208 60 00 (of camels and other camelids (Camelidae))
0208 90 (other: of domestic pigeons, of game other than of
rabbits or hares): covers meat of quails, reindeer or any other
mammal species. Covers frogs’ legs under CN code
0208 90 70.
0209 Pig
fat,
free
of
lean
meat,
and
All, covers both fat and processed fat as described in
poultry fat, not rendered or column 2.
otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled,
frozen, salted, in brine, dried or
smoked.
0210 Meat
and
edible
meat
offal,
salted,
All, covers meat, meat products and other products of animal
in brine, dried or smoked; edible origin.
flours and meals of meat or meat Covers processed animal protein and dried pigs ears for
offal.
human consumption.
Bones for human consumption are covered under heading
0506.
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CHAPTER 3
Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebrates
General remarks
This chapter covers both live fish for breeding and reproduction, live ornamental fish, and live fish or live crustaceans
transported alive but imported for human consumption.
All products in this chapter are subject to veterinary checks.
Notes to Chapter 3 (extract from the Notes to this Chapter of the Combined Nomenclature (CN) as laid down in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87)
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) mammals of heading 0106;
(b) meat of mammals of heading 0106 (heading 0208 or 0210);
(c) fish (including livers and roes thereof) or crustaceans molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, dead and unfit or
unsuitable for human consumption by reason of either their species or their condition (Chapter 5); flours, meals or
pellets of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates unfit for human consumption (heading
2301); or
(d) caviar or caviar substitutes prepared from fish eggs (heading 1604).
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
0301 Live
fish
All: covers trout, eels, carp, or any other species or any fish
imported for breeding or reproduction.
Live fish imported for immediate human consumption are
treated for veterinary checks purposes as if they were
products.
Covers ornamental fish in subheading 0301 10.
0302 Fish,
fresh
or
chilled,
excluding
fish
All; covers livers and roes, fresh or chilled, in CN code
fillets and other fish meat of 0302 90 00.
heading 0304
0303 Fish,
frozen,
excluding
fish
fillets
All; covers livers and roes, frozen, in subheading 0303 90.
and other fish meat of heading
0304
0304 Fish
fillets
and
other
fish
meat
All
(whether or not minced), fresh,
chilled or frozen.
0305 Fish,
dried,
salted
or
in
brine;
All, covers other fishery products such as flours, meals and
smoked fish, whether or not pellets fit for human consumption made from fish, covers fish
cooked before or during the heads, tails and maws and other fishery products.
smoking process; flours, meals
and pellets of fish, fit for human
consumption.
0306 Crustaceans,
whether
in
shell
or
All: live crustaceans imported for immediate human
not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, consumption are considered and treated for veterinary
dried, salted or in brine; smoked checks purposes as if they were products.
crustaceans, whether in shell or Covers ornamental sea monkeys and their cysts for use as pet
not, whether or not cooked animals; and all live ornamental crustaceans as provided for
before or during the smoking by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1251/2008 (
process; crustaceans, in shell,

1 ).
cooked by steaming or by boiling
in water, whether or not chilled,
frozen, dried, salted or in brine;
flours, meals and pellets of crus
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(1) (2) (3)
0307 Molluscs,
whether
in
shell
or
not,
This covers molluscs that may have been cooked and then
live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, smoked. Other cooked molluscs are covered in heading 1605.
salted or in brine; smoked
molluscs, whether in shell or not, Covers live ornamental molluscs as provided for by Regu
whether or not cooked before or lation (EC) No 1251/2008.
during the smoking process;
flours, meals and pellets of Live molluscs imported for immediate human consumption
molluscs, fit for human
are considered and treated for veterinary checks purposes as if
consumption.
they were products.
Covers all from the subheadings 0307 11 to 0307 99, such
as the following examples:
0307 60 (snails other than sea snails): covers terrestrial
gastropods of the species Helix pomatia, Helix aspersa,
Helix lucorum and species of the family Achatinidae. Covers
live snails (including fresh water snails) for immediate human
consumption and also snail meat for human consumption.
Covers lightly pre cooked or pre-processed snails. Further
processed products are covered in heading 1605.
0307 91 00 (live, fresh, or chilled other molluscs than
oysters, scallops, mussels, cuttle fish, octopus, snails other
than sea snails, clams, cockles, ark shells, abalones; but
including flours, meals and pellets thereof; fit for human
consumption): covers meat of sea water snail species,
whether in shell or not.
0307 99 (other molluscs than oysters, scallops, mussels,
cuttle fish, octopus, snails other than sea snails, clams,
cockles, ark shells, abalones other than live, fresh or chilled;
but including flours, meals and pellets thereof; fit for human
consumption).
0308 Aquatic
invertebrates
other
than
All
crustaceans and molluscs, live,
fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted
or in brine; smoked aquatic invert
ebrates other than crustaceans and
molluscs, whether or not cooked
before or during the smoking
process; flours, meals and pellets
of aquatic invertebrates other than
crustaceans and molluscs, fit for
human consumption.
( 1 ) OJ L 337, 16.12.2008, p. 41.
CHAPTER 4
Dairy produce; birds’ eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified
or included
Notes to Chapter 4
1. The expression “milk” means full-cream milk or partially or completely skimmed milk.
2. For the purposes of heading 0405:
(a) the term “butter” means natural butter, whey butter or recombined butter (fresh, salted or rancid, including canned
butter) derived exclusively from milk, with a milkfat content of 80 % or more but not more than 95 % by weight,
a maximum milk solids-not-fat content of 2 % by weight and a maximum water content of 16 % by weight. Butter
does not contain added emulsifiers, but may contain sodium chloride, food colours, neutralising salts and cultures
of harmless lactic-acid-producing bacteria;
(b) the expression “dairy spreads” means a spreadable emulsion of the water-in-oil type, containing milkfat as the only
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3. Products obtained by the concentration of whey and with the addition of milk or milkfat are to be classified as cheese
in heading 0406 provided that they have the three following characteristics:
(a) a milkfat content, by weight of the dry matter, of 5 % or more;
(b) a dry matter content, by weight, of at least 70 % but not exceeding 85 %; and
(c) they are moulded or capable of being moulded.
4. This chapter does not cover:
(a) products obtained from whey, containing by weight more than 95 % lactose, expressed as anhydrous lactose
calculated on the dry matter (heading 1702); or
(b) albumins (including concentrates of two or more whey proteins, containing by weight more than 80 % whey
proteins, calculated on the dry matter) (heading 3502) or globulins (heading 3504).
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Heading 0408 covers whole eggs not in shell, and egg yolks of all birds. The products of this heading may be fresh, dried,
cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, moulded (e.g. cylindrical “long eggs”), frozen or otherwise preserved. All these
fall in the heading whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter and whether for use as food or for
industrial purposes (e.g., in tanning).
This heading does not cover
(a) Oil of egg yolk (heading 1506).
(b) Egg preparations containing seasoning, spices or other additives (heading 2106).
(c) Lecithin (heading 2923).
(d) Separate egg white (egg albumin) (heading 3502).
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Heading 0409 covers honey produced by bees (Apis mellifera) or by other insects, centrifuged or in the comb or
containing comb chunks, provided that neither sugar nor other substance has been added. Such honey may be designated
by floral source, origin or colour.
Heading 0409 excludes artificial honey and mixtures of natural and artificial honey (heading 1702).
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Heading 0410 covers products of animal origin suitable for human consumption, not specified or included elsewhere in
the Combined Nomenclature. This includes:
(a) turtles eggs.
(b) salanganes’ nests (“birds nests”).
Heading 0410 excludes animal blood, edible or not, liquid or dried (heading 0511 or 3002).
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
0401 Milk
and
cream,
not
concentrated
All: milk covers milk that is raw, pasteurised, or thermised,
nor containing added sugar or including frozen.
other sweetening matter.
Covers fractions of milk.
Milk for animal feed is covered under this heading, whereas
animal feed containing milk is covered in heading 2309.
Milk for therapeutic/prophylactic uses is covered in heading
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(1) (2) (3)
0402 Milk
and
cream,
concentrated
or
All, including milk for infants.
containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.
0403 Buttermilk,
curdled
milk
and
All, covers cream, flavoured or containing fruits, frozen and
cream, yogurt, kephir and other fermented milk, for human consumption.
fermented or acidified milk and Ice cream is covered in heading 2105.
cream, whether or not concen
trated or containing added sugar Beverages containing milk flavoured with cocoa or other
or other sweetening matter or substances are covered in heading 2202.
flavoured or containing added
fruit, nuts or cocoa.
0404 Whey,
whether
or
not
concen All, covers milk products for infants.
trated or containing added sugar Covers in CN code 0404 10 48 bovine colostrum, in liquid
or other sweetening matter; form, defatted and de-caseinated, for human consumption,
products consisting of natural and in CN code 0404 90 21 spray-dried, reduced-fat
milk constituents, whether or not colostrum powder which has not been de-caseinated, for
containing added sugar or other human consumption.
sweetening matter, not elsewhere
specified or included.
0405
Butter and other fats and oils All: covers dairy spreads.
derived from milk; dairy spreads.
0406 Cheese
and
curd All
0407 Birds’
eggs,
in
shell,
fresh,
All, covers hatching eggs and specified pathogen free eggs
preserved or cooked.
(SPF), fertilised eggs for incubation (0407 11 and 0407 19).
Covers fresh eggs (0407 21 to 0407 29) and other eggs
(0407 90), not fit and fit for human consumption.
Covers “100 year old eggs”.
Egg albumin not fit and fit for human consumption is
covered in heading 3502.
0408 Birds’
eggs,
not
in
shell,
and
egg
All: this heading covers egg products whether or not heat
yolks, fresh, dried, cooked by treated and products not fit for human consumption.
steaming or by boiling in water,
moulded, frozen or otherwise
preserved, whether or not
containing added sugar or other
sweetening matter.
0409 00 00 Natural
honey All
0410 00 00 Edible
products
of
animal
origin,
All
not elsewhere specified or This heading covers “royal jelly” and propolis (used in manu
included.
facture for pharmaceutical products and food supplements)
and other animal derived material for human consumption,
except bones (which are covered in 0506).
Insects or insect eggs for human consumption are covered in
this CN code.
CHAPTER 5
Products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or included
General remarks
Specific requirements for certain products in this chapter are laid down in Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex
XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011:
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Row 8: untreated hair
Row 9: treated feathers and parts of feathers.
The terms “untreated” and “treated” are defined for the relevant product in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
Notes to Chapter 5 (extract from the Notes to this Chapter of the Combined Nomenclature (CN) as laid down in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87)
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) edible products (other than guts, bladders and stomachs of animals, whole and pieces thereof, and animal blood,
liquid or dried);
(b) hides or skins (including furskins), other than goods of heading 0505 and parings and similar waste of raw hides
or skins of heading 0511 (Chapter 41 or 43);
(c) animal textile materials, other than horsehair and horsehair waste (Section XI); or
(d) prepared knots or tufts for broom or brush making (heading 9603).
3. Throughout the nomenclature, elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal and wild boar tusks, rhinoceros horns and
the teeth of all animals are regarded as “ivory”.
4. Throughout the nomenclature, the expression “horsehair” means hair of the manes or tails of equine or bovine
animals.
Extract from the Harmonised System Explanatory Notes
Heading 0505 covers
(1) Skins and other parts of birds (e.g., heads, wings) with their feathers or down, and
(2) Feathers and parts of feathers (whether or not with trimmed edges), and down,
provided they are either unworked, or merely cleaned, disinfected or treated for preservation but not otherwise worked
or mounted.
Heading 0505 also covers powder, meal and waste of feathers or parts of feathers.
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
0502 10 00
Pigs’, hogs’ or boars’ bristles and All, treated and untreated.
hair and waste thereof.
Untreated pigs bristles means pig bristles that have not
undergone factory washing, been obtained from tanning, or
been treated by some other method to ensure that no
pathogens remain.
0504 00 00 Guts,
bladders
and
stomachs
of
All: covers stomachs, bladders and intestines cleaned salted
animals (other than fish), whole dried or heated of bovine, porcine, ovine, caprine, or of
and pieces thereof, fresh, chilled, poultry origin.
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Ex 0505 Skins
and
other
parts
of
birds,
with
All: including game trophies of birds, but excluding treated
their feathers or down, feathers decorative feathers, treated feathers carried by travellers for
and parts of feathers (whether or their private use or consignments of treated feathers sent to
not with trimmed edges) and private individuals for non-industrial purposes.
down, not further worked than
cleaned, disinfected or treated for Article 25(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 prohibits
preservation; powder and waste of the importation into and transit through the Union of
feathers or parts of feathers.
untreated feathers and parts of feathers and down.
Veterinary checks are applicable for feathers independent
from their treatment as referred to in point C of Chapter
VII of Annex XIII to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
Further specific requirements for game trophies are laid down
in Section 5 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU)
No 142/2011.
Section 6 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU)
No 142/2011 covers feathers used for stuffing, down, raw
or other feathers.
0506 Bones
and
horn-cores,
un-worked,
Covers bones for production of gelatine, or collagen if derived
defatted, simply prepared (but not from carcases that have been slaughtered for human
cut to shape), treated with acid or consumption and bone flour for human consumption.
de-gelatinised; powder and waste
of these products.
Specific requirements for such products not intended for
human consumption are laid down in Row 6 (game
trophies) and in Row 11 (bones and bone products (excluding
bone meal), horns and horn products (excluding horn meal)
and hooves and hoof products (excluding hoof meal) for uses
other than as feed material, organic fertiliser or soil improver)
of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to
Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
0507 Ivory,
tortoise-shell,
whalebone
and
Specific requirements for game trophies are laid down in Row
whalebone hair, horns, antlers, 6 of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to
hooves, nails, claws and beaks, Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
un-worked or simply prepared but
not cut to shape; powder and Covers treated game trophies from birds and ungulates being
waste of these products.
solely bones, horns, hooves, claws, antlers, teeth, hides or
skins from third countries.
Ex 0508 00 00 Coral
and
similar
materials,
Empty shells for food use and use as raw material for gluco
unworked or simply prepared but samine.
not otherwise worked; shells of
molluscs, crustaceans or echi In addition, shells containing soft tissue and flesh used for
noderms and cuttle-bone,
different purposes are covered under Article 10(k)(i) of Regu
unworked or simply prepared but lation (EC) No 1069/2009.
not cut to shape, powder and
waste thereof.
Ex 0510 00 00 Ambergris,
castoreum,
civet
and
Specific requirements are laid down in Row 14 of Table 2 of
musk, cantharides, bile, whether Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU)
or not dried; glands and other No 142/2011 for animal by-products for the manufacture
animal products used in the prep of petfood other than raw petfood and of derived products
aration of pharmaceutical products, for uses outside the feed chain (for pharmaceuticals and other
fresh, chilled, frozen or otherwise technical products).
provisionally preserved
Glands, other animal products and bile are covered by this
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0511 Animal
products
not
elsewhere
All, covers subheadings 0511 10 to 0511 99.
specified or included; dead
animals of Chapter 1 or 3, unfit Covers genetic material (semen and embryos of animal origin
for human consumption.
such as bovine, ovine, caprine, equine and porcine species)
and animal by-products of Categories 1 and 2 materials.
The following are examples of animal products falling in
subheadings 0511 10 to 0511 99:
0511 10 00 (bovine semen)
0511 91 (products of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other
aquatic invertebrates): all, covers fish eggs for hatching, dead
animals, animal by-products for the manufacture of petfood
and for pharmaceuticals and other technical products. Covers
dead animals of Chapter 3, inedible or classed unfit for
human consumption, for example, daphnids, known as
water fleas, and other ostracoda or phyllopods, dried, for
feeding aquarium fish; covers fish bait.
0511 99 10 (sinews or tendons; parings and similar waste of
raw hides and skins)
0511 99 31 (raw natural sponges of animal origin): all if for
human consumption; if not for human consumption only
those destined for petfood. Specific requirements for non-
human consumption are set out in Row 12 of Table 2 of
Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex XIV to Regulation (EU)
No 142/2011.
0511 99 39 (other than raw natural sponges of animal
origin): all if for human consumption; if not for human
consumption only those destined for petfood. Specific
requirements for non-human consumption are set out in
Row 12 of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II of Annex
XIV to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
0511 99 85 (other animal products not elsewhere specified or
included; dead animals of Chapter 1, unfit for human
consumption): all: embryos, ova, semen and genetic material
not covered in 0511 10 and of species other than bovine fall
under this heading. Covers animal by-products for the manu
facture of petfood or other technological products.
Covers untreated horsehair, apiculture products other than
waxes for apiculture or technical use, spermaceti for
technical use, dead animals of Chapter 1 which are inedible
or not for human consumption (for example dogs, cats,
insects), animal material where the essential characteristics
have not been changed, and edible animal blood not
derived from fish, for human consumption.
CHAPTER 12
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits miscellaneous grains, seeds and fruit: industrial or medicinal plants:
straw and fodder
General remarks
Only certain plant products are subject to veterinary checks, see definition of “products” in Article 2(2)(a) of Directive
97/78/EC.
CN code Description Qualification
and
explanation
(1) (2) (3)
Ex 1212 99 95 Bee
pollen All
Ex 1213 00 00 Cereal
straw
and
husks,
Covers only straw.
unprepared, whether or not
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Ex 1214 90 Swedes,
mangolds,
fodder
roots,
Covers only hay.
hay, lucerne (alfalfa), clover,
sainfoin, forage kale lupines
vetches and similar forage
products whether or not in the
form of pellets: Other than
Lucerne (alfalfa) meal and pellets.
CHAPTER 15
Animal or vegetable fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or
vegetable waxes
General remarks
All animal derived fats and oils. Specific requirements for the following products are set out in Annex XIV to Regulation
(EU) No 142/2011:
1. rendered fats and fish oils in Row 3 of Table 1 of Section 1 of Chapter I;
2. rendered fats from Category 2 materials for certain purposes outside the feed chain for farmed animals (for example
oleo chemical purposes) in Row 17 of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II;
3. fat derivatives in Row 18 of Table 2 of Section 1 of Chapter II.
Fat derivatives include first stage products derived from fats and oils when in their pure state produced by a method
set out in point 1 of Chapter XI of Annex XIII to Regulation (EU) No 142/2011.
Derivatives mixed with other materials are subjected to veterinary checks.
Notes to Chapter 15 (extract from the Notes to this Chapter of the Combined Nomenclature (CN) as laid down
in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87)
1. This chapter does not cover:
(a) pig fat or poultry fat on heading 0209;
(b) cocoa butter, fat and oil (heading 1804);
(c) edible preparations con