Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

1. Model Health Certificate GBHC562 for raw petfood cites the import conditions for fishery products: These were previously set out in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/626 but are now published on GOV.UK. GBHC562 has therefore been amended to reflect this change.

2. Attestation AH/P801, covering random sampling requirements, will also be revised to correct a clerical error made when the certificate was last published. It currently states: "the competent authority examined a random sample of the products immediately prior to dispatch and found it to comply with microbiological GB requirements for Salmonella and Enterobacteriaceae;" This will be corrected to the following: "the pet food being certified must be analysed by a random sampling of at least five samples from each processed batch taken during or after storage at the processing plant and found to comply with microbiological GB requirements for Salmonella and Enterobacteriaceae;" This brings the text back in line with Great Britain's actual import requirement for random sampling.

Publishing import conditions on GOV.UK means they can be amended administratively rather than through legislation. This allows for more agile responses to changes in risk. The requirement currently cited in Attestation AH/P801 is erroneous and was made by clerical error when the certificate was drafted. This revision clarifies the correct import requirement. The intention of this attestation is that in the case of raw petfood, the competent authority assures themselves, prior to signing the certificate, that the sampling has been carried out prior to dispatch, during or after storage at the p