TSAD12010 - Goods subject to checks at the place of importation: categories


All goods are eligible for temporary storage. However, certain goods are subject to specific checks before they may be removed from the place of importation to an ERTS or ICD/IRD. Set out below are those categories of goods which normally need to be controlled at the port of importation, unless permission has been granted by the relevant control agency for movement elsewhere.

1Goods subject to veterinary checks at a Border Inspection Post (BIP)
  • live animals
  • fresh red meat and meat products
  • poultry meat and poultry meat products
  • rabbit meat, game meat (wild/farmed) and products thereof
  • fish products, fresh and frozen fish and dry and/or salted fishery products
  • whole eggs, egg products, hatching eggs
  • lard and rendered fats
  • animal casings
  • milk and milk products whether or not for human consumption
  • processed animal protein
  • honey
  • semen
  • embryos/ova
  • manure
  • gelatine
  • bones and bone products
  • hides and skins
  • bristles, wool, hair and feathers
  • horns, horn products, hooves and hoof products
  • apiculture products
  • hunting trophies
  • processed pet food
  • raw material for the manufacture of pet food
  • raw material, blood, blood products, glands and organs for pharmaceutical use
  • blood products for technical use
  • pathogens and
  • hay and straw.
2Goods subject to plant health, horticultural or timber controls.

Only if the local Plant Health and Seeds Inspector, or Forestry Commission inspector, as appropriate, considers that their controls can be carried out outside the port of importation, may these goods be removed to an ERTS or ICD. A recent change in policy now enable traders to apply to have plant health inspections by the Plant Health Seed Inspectorate, the Horticultural Marketing Inspectorate and the Forestry Commission, carried out inland at ERTS premises. See JCCC paper (07) 30 for further details.
3Foodstuffs other than those covered in 1 and 2 above.

These goods may be allowed to be removed to an ERTS or ICD if both the Port Health Authority and the Environmental Health Officer allow their controls to be carried out outside of the port of importation.
4Goods subject to environmental controls.

Specified consignments of goods subject to various environmental controls (such as certain new chemicals or hazardous waste) in respect of which Customs have been requested by a regulatory body to arrange their detention at the point of entry into the Community. Ozone depleting substances (ODS), including CFCs or halons, which require import licences issued by the European Commission.
5Goods subject to endangered species control.

Certain species of animals or plants (including their parts or derivatives such as furs, ivory, reptile skin goods, timber and stuffed specimens) are subject to the control on endangered species for which the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has responsibility Foreign export permits must be presented at the first point of entry into the Community.

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