Vietnam Sanitary and Phytosanitary Notification Authority and Enquiry Point

The Commission implementing Decision lays down temporary animal  health  requirements  for  consignments  of  products  of  animal  origin  for  human consumption  originating  from  and  returning  to  the  Union  following  refusal  of  entry  by third country. It aims to ensure that unloading, storage and re-loading of these products in third countries would not lead to risks for the spread and introduction into the Union of pathogens of certain listed animal diseases. It does not lay down import requirements for products of animal origin for human consumption, which were produced in and by third countries themselves.
The animal health requirements in the Decision are close to, and largely replace in more specific  terms,  already  existing  requirements  (which  are  more  general  and  which  are repealed  as  from  14  December  2019  by  Regulation  (EU)  2017/625  of  the  European Parliament and of the Council). The Decision is temporary in its nature bridging only the period from 14 December 2019 until 21 April 2021. From 21 April 2021 new animal health requirements for live animals and certain products of animal origin originating from and returning to the Union following refusal of entry by third country will be applicable. Those are laid down as part of a Commission Delegated Regulation supplementing Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of Council as regards rules for the entry into  the  Union,  movement  and  handling  after  the  entry  of  certain  animals,  germinal products and products of animal origin from third countries or territories. That Delegated Regulation was notified earlier as G/SPS/N/EU/329.