(1)

Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 lays down specific rules relating to, inter alia, the entry into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom of certain consignments of retail goods for placing on the market in Northern Ireland for the final consumer, including specific rules for consignments of rest-of-the-world retail goods.

(2)

More specifically, Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 provides that rest-of-the-world retail goods consisting of commodities of animal or plant origin or composite products subject to the animal health or plant health rules referred to in Article 1(2), points (d), (e) and (g), of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) (‘rest-of-the-world commodities’) may enter into Northern Ireland from other parts of the United Kingdom and be placed on the market in Northern Ireland in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 only if the United Kingdom provides written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements provided for in Regulations (EC) No 1069/2009 (3), (EU) 2016/429 (4) and (EU) 2016/2031 (5) of the European Parliament and of the Council, in Regulation (EU) 2017/625, and in the Commission acts adopted pursuant to those Regulations apply to those commodities under the national law of the United Kingdom, and those import conditions and official controls requirements are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom.

(3)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 (6) establishes, in the Annex thereto, the list of rest-of-the-world commodities, which currently lists goods of animal and of non-animal origin.

(4)

By letters dated 11 October 2024 and 5 December 2024, the United Kingdom provided the written evidence that the import conditions and official controls requirements laid down in Regulations (EU) 2016/429 and (EU) 2017/625 and related to poultry meat products from China and Thailand, apply under its national law, and those import conditions and official controls requirements related to these goods of animal origin intended for human consumption are effectively implemented by the United Kingdom. It is therefore appropriate to amend the Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/2059 to add those goods to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities.

(5)

In accordance with Article 12 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 (7), the animal health/official certificate to be used for the entry into the Union of poultry meat products is to correspond either to the model certificate MPNT set out in Chapter 25 of Annex III to that Regulation or to the model MPST set out in Chapter 26 of Annex III to that Regulation, depending on whether or not the products are required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment. As Thailand is listed in Annex XV, Part 1, Section A, to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/404 (8) for poultry meat products intended for human consumption that are not required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment, that category of products from Thailand should be added to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities that are to be accompanied by the MPNT or MPST model certificates. As China is listed in that Annex for poultry meat products that are required to undergo a specific risk-mitigating treatment, that category of products from China should be added to the list of rest-of-the-world commodities for those products that are to be accompanied by the MPST model certificate.

(6)

In the interest of legal certainty and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should enter into force as a matter of urgency.

(7)

As the United Kingdom has provided the written evidence related to the animal health rules referred to in Article 9(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1231 from 3 December 2024 for those rest-of-the-world goods of animal origin, and to avoid any unnecessary disruption to trade, this Regulation should thus apply retroactively from that date.

(8)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed,