#32026D1375EU updates certificate rules for Canadian pork imports
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This decision updates the EU certificate rules for fresh meat from domestic pigs imported from Canada for human consumption. It reflects the EU-Canada trade agreement, where the EU has accepted Canada’s rules as equivalent for some public health requirements, but not for animal health requirements. For Canadian exporters, EU importers, and border control teams, the practical change is a revised model animal health and official certificate. The public health part can be simplified, while the animal health part must still follow the EU’s standard requirements for pork imports.
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Key Changes
- Updates the model animal health and official certificate for fresh pork imports from Canada
- Simplifies the public health attestation where EU-Canada equivalence has been recognised
- Keeps the EU’s animal health requirements in place because equivalence has not been recognised for those rules
Obligations
What this law requires
Consignments of fresh meat of domestic porcine animals from Canada intended for human consumption must be accompanied by the revised EU model animal health/official certificate for import into the Union.
For Canadian fresh pork consignments, the animal health section of the import certificate must continue to attest compliance with the EU animal health requirements applicable to fresh meat of domestic porcine animals.
The public health attestation in the certificate for Canadian fresh pork may be completed using the simplified attestation reflecting recognised equivalence between Canadian and EU public health measures.
EU border control teams must verify that Canadian fresh pork consignments presented for import use the applicable revised animal health/official certificate and include the required animal health attestations.