Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

It follows from Regulation (EU) 2017/625 on official controls and other  official  activities  performed  to  ensure  the  application  of  food  and  feed  law,  animal health  and  welfare,  plant  health  and  plant  protection  products,  that  certain  categories  of animals and goods coming from third countries must be subject to specific official controls at the border control posts.
Article  49(1)  of  Regulation  (EU)  2017/625  requires  the  competent  authorities  to  perform official controls on those animals and goods upon their arrival at the border control posts. 
Those  official  controls  must  include  documentary  checks,  identity  checks  and  physical checks.
This  Regulation  lays  down  detailed  rules  concerning  performance  of  the  documentary checks, identity checks and physical checks at border control posts.
The  current  operations  carried  out  during  documentary  checks,  identity  checks  and physical  checks  have  proven  to  be  effective  and  ensure  a  high  level  of  performance  of checks.  Therefore,  the  rules  laid  down  in  this  Regulation  ensure  a  continuation  of  the requirements  on operations to be carried out during and after these checks at the border control posts.
Date of application: 14 December 2019