Model veterinary certificate for meat of poultry (POU)

COUNTRY:

Veterinary certificate to EU

Part I: Details of dispatched consignment

I.1. Consignor

Name

Address

Country

Tel.

I.2. Certificate reference number

I.2.a.

I.3. Central Competent Authority

I.4. Local Competent authority

I.5. Consignee

Name

Address

Country

Tel.

I.6.

I.7. Country of origin

ISO code

I.8. Region of origin

Code

I.9. Country of destination

ISO code

I.10.

I.11. Place of origin

Name Approval number

Address

I.12.

I.13. Place of loading

Address

I.14. Date of departure

I.15. Means of transport

Aeroplane Ship Railway wagon

Road vehicle Other

Identification:

Document:

I.16. Entry BIP in EU

I.17.

I.18. Description of commodity

I.19. Commodity code (HS code)

I.20. Quantity

I.21. Temperature of products

Ambient Chilled Frozen

I.22. Number of packages

I.23. Seal/Container No

I.24.

I.25. Commodities certified as:

Human consumption

I.26.

I.27. For import or admission into EU

I.28. Identification of the commodity

Approval number of establishments

Species (scientific name)

Abattoir

Cutting plant

Cold store

Number of packages

Net weight

COUNTRY

POU (meat of poultry)

II. Health information

II.a. Certificate reference number

II.b.

II.1. Public health attestation

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, declare that I am aware of the relevant provisions of Regulations (EC) Nos 178/2002, 852/2004, 853/2004 and 854/2004 and hereby certify that the meat of poultry (1) described in this certificate has been obtained in accordance with those requirements, and in particular that:

(a) it comes from (an) establishments(s) implementing a programme based on the HACCP principles in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 852/2004;

(b) it has been produced in compliance with the conditions set out in Sections II and V of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(c) it has been found fit for human consumption following ante and post-mortem inspections carried out in accordance with Section IV, Chapter V of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 854/2004;

(d) it has been marked with an identification mark in accordance with Section I of Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004;

(e) it satisfies the relevant criteria set out in Regulation (EC) No 2073/2005 on microbiological criteria for foodstuffs;

(f) the guarantees covering live animals and products thereof provided by the residue plans submitted in accordance with Directive 96/23/EC, and in particular Article 29 thereof, are fulfilled;

(2) [(g) it fulfils the requirements of Regulation (EC) No 1688/2005 implementing Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards special guarantees concerning Salmonella for consignments to Finland and Sweden of certain meat and eggs.]

II.2. Animal health attestation

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify that the meat of poultry described in this certificate:

II.2.1 comes from:

(3) (4) (6) either [the territory of code ;]

(4) (5) or [compartment(s) ;]

which at the date of issue of the certificate was (were) free from:

highly pathogenic avian influenza as defined in Article 2(16) of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, and

Newcastle disease as defined in point (18) of Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008;

II.2.2 has been obtained from poultry which:

(4) either [has not been vaccinated against avian influenza;]

(4) or [has been vaccinated against avian influenza in accordance with a vaccination plan complying with the requirements of Annex V of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 using:

(name and type of used vaccine(s))

at the age of weeks;]

II.2.3 has been obtained from poultry which has been kept in:

(3) (4) (9) either [the territory(ies) of code ;]

(4) (5) (9) or [compartment(s) ;]

(4) either [since hatching or has been imported as poultry other than ratites (day-old chicks, breeding and productive poultry, slaughter poultry or poultry for restocking game supplies) from (a)third country(ies) listed for that commodity in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 under conditions at least equivalent to those in that Regulation;]

Part II: Certification

COUNTRY

POU (meat of poultry)

II. Health information

II.a. Certificate reference number

II.b.

(4) or [since hatching or has been imported as poultry other than ratites (day-old chicks, breeding and productive poultry, slaughter poultry or poultry for restocking game supplies) from (a) Member State(s).]

II.2.4 has been obtained from poultry coming from establishments:

(a) which are not subject to any animal health restriction;

(b) within a 10 km radius of which, including, where appropriate, the territory of a neighbouring country, there has been no outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease for at least the previous 30 days;

II.2.5 has been obtained from poultry that:

(7) (a) has been slaughtered on (dd/mm/yyyy) or between (dd/mm/yyyy) and (dd/mm/yyyy);

(b) has not been slaughtered under any animal-health scheme for the control or eradication of poultry diseases;

(c) during transport to the slaughterhouse, did not come into contact with poultry infected with highly pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease;

II.2.6 (a) comes from approved slaughterhouses which, at the time of slaughter, were not under restrictions owing to a suspected or confirmed outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease and within a 10 km radius of which there has been no outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza or Newcastle disease for at least the previous 30 days:

(b) has not been in contact at any time during slaughter, cutting, storage or transport with poultry or meat of lower health status;

(8) [II.2.7 comes from slaughter poultry that:

(a) has not been vaccinated with vaccines prepared from a Newcastle disease virus master seed showing a higher pathogenicity than lentogenic strains of the virus;

(b) underwent a virus isolation test for Newcastle disease, carried out in an official laboratory at the time of slaughter on a random sample of cloacal swabs from at least 60 birds in each flock concerned and in which no avian paramyxoviruses with an Intracerebral Pathogenicity Index (ICPI) of more than 0,4 were found;

(c) has not been in contact in 30 days preceding slaughter with poultry that does not fulfil the conditions in (a) and (b).]

(10) [II.2.8 comes from slaughter poultry flocks which have been examined and tested in accordance with point 8 of Section I of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.]

II.3. Animal welfare attestation

I, the undersigned official veterinarian, hereby certify, that the fresh meat described in Part I of this certificate derives from animals which have been handled in the slaughterhouse before and at the time of slaughter or killing in accordance with the relevant provisions of Union legislation and have met requirements at least equivalent to those laid down in Chapters II and III of Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009.

Notes

Part I:

— Box I.8: Provide the code for the zone or the compartment of origin, if necessary, as defined under code in column 2 of Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.

— Box I.11: Name, address and approval number of the establishment of dispatch.

— Box I.15: Indicate the registration number(s) of railway wagons and lorries, the names of ships and, if known, the flight numbers of aircraft. In the case of transport in containers or boxes, the total number of these and their registration and where there is a serial number of the seal it has to be indicated in box I.23.

— Box I.19: Use the appropriate Harmonised System (HS) code of the World Customs Organisation: 02.07, 02.08 or 05.04.

COUNTRY

POU (meat of poultry)

II. Health information

II.a. Certificate reference number

II.b.

Part II:

(1) ‘Meat of poultry’ means the edible parts of farmed birds, including birds that are not considered as domestic but which are farmed as domestic animals, with the exception of ratites, which have not undergone any treatment other than cold treatment to ensure preservation; vacuum-wrapped meat or meat wrapped in a controlled atmosphere must also be accompanied by a certificate in accordance with this model.

Note: It includes meat of the so-called ‘farmed game-birds’..

(2) Delete if the consignment is not intended for import to Sweden or Finland.

(3) Code of the territory as it appears in column 2 of Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.

(4) Keep as appropriate.

(5) Insert the name of compartment(s).

(6) For countries or territories with the entry ‘N’ in column 6 of Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008, for meat of poultry (POU) only, this means that in the case of an outbreak of Newcastle disease as defined in point (18) of Article 2of Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 then the country code or territory code shall continue to be used but this will exclude any area under official restrictions, by the third country concerned in relation to Newcastle disease, at the date of issue of this certificate.

(7) Indicate date or dates of slaughter. Imports of this meat shall not be allowed when obtained from poultry slaughtered in the territory or the compartment(s) referred to in point II.2.1 during a period where restrictive measures have been adopted by the European Union against imports of this meat from this territory or that (these) compartment(s).

(8) Applicable only to the countries with the entry ‘VI’ in column 5 of Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.

(9) If the meat comes from poultry other than ratites, as day-old chicks, breeding and productive poultry, slaughter poultry or poultry for restocking game supplies, originating either in (a) Member State(s) or (a)third country(ies) listed in Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 for imports of that commodity into the Union, then the code(s) of the Member State(s) or the country(ies) or of territory(ies) of those country(ies) and the code of the third country slaughtering the poultry shall be indicated.

(10) This guarantee is only required for poultry meat coming from countries, territories or zones with the entry ‘X’ in column 5 of Part 1 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 798/2008.

Official veterinarian

Name (in capital letters): Qualification and title:

Date: Signature:

Stamp: