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Notification to the Parties


No. 1000 Geneva, 19 December 1997

CONCERNING:

UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Designation of Ports of Entry

1. The Management Authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has communicated to the Secretariat the current List of Designated Ports and Airports through which live specimens must pass to enter the United Kingdom. A copy of this List, valid from 1 January 1997, is attached hereto.

2. This Notification replaces Notification to the Parties No. 359 of 19 September 1985.

 

UK Border Inspection Posts for Live Animals
as at 1 January 1997

Border Inspection Post

Live Animals

Remarks

Name

Type

Ungulates

(1)

Registered Equidae

(2)

Other
Animals

.

Gatwick

Airport

-

-

-
-

Glasgow

Airport

-

-

_

.

Heathrow

Airport

_

_

_

.

Immingham

Port

-

_

-

(3)

Luton

Airport

_

_

-

(3)

Manchester

Airport

-

-

_

Cats, dogs, lagomorphs, live fish, reptiles and birds other than ratites

East Midlands

Airport

-

-

_

Tropical fish only

Royal Portbury Dock, Avonmouth

Port

_

-

-

(3)

Tilbury

Port

_

_

_

(3)

Other animals - zoo animals only

Belfast International

Airport

-

-

_


(1) Ungulates: cattle, pigs, sheep, goats, wild and domestic solipeds, etc.

(2) As defined in Directive 90/426/EEC on health conditions governing the movement of equidae and their import from third countries (OJ No. L224, 18.8 p.42).

(3) Not a border inspection post for any species of animals specified in the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) Order 1974, as amended by the Rabies (Importation of Dogs, Cats and Other Mammals) (Amendment) Order 1994.