Delegated regulation 2019/1081 - Rules on specific training requirements for staff for performing certain physical checks at border control posts - Main contents

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Official Journal of the European Union

L 171/1

Regulation (EU) 2017/625 establishes rules on the performance of official controls by the competent authorities of the Member States on animals and goods entering the Union in order to verify compliance with Union agri-food chain legislation.

Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 requires that all staff performing official controls and other official activities must receive appropriate training for their area of competence. Chapter I of Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 sets out subject matters for the training of staff performing official controls and other official activities.

Article 21(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 requires that competent authorities perform official controls on animals presented at border control posts to verify compliance with animal welfare requirements and in particular with the rules applicable to their transport into the Union. Such official controls are to include controls on the fitness of animals being transported and on the means of transport.

Article 21(3) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 requires that during the performance of official controls competent authorities take the necessary measures to prevent or reduce to a minimum any delay between the loading of the animals and their departure. If animals have to be detained during transport for more than two hours, competent authorities are to ensure that appropriate arrangements are taken for their care and, where necessary, their feeding, watering, unloading and accommodation. It is therefore appropriate that staff assisting the official veterinarian in the performance of physical checks on animals at border control posts are specifically trained for that purpose.

Article 47(1) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 provides that certain categories of animals and goods coming from third countries are to be subject to official controls at the border control post of first arrival into the Union. In accordance with Article 49(1) of that Regulation such official controls are to include documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks.

Article 49(2) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 provides that the physical checks are to be performed by an official veterinarian where those checks concern animals, except aquatic animals, or meat and edible meat offal. The official veterinarian may be assisted by staff trained in accordance with the requirements established under that Regulation in veterinary matters and designated by the...