Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2020 of 26 July 2024 amending and correcting Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 as regards model certificates for the entry into the Union of consignments of certain categories of animals and certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, and correcting Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/399

Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235 is corrected as follows: 1. in Chapter 12 (model ‘NZ-TRANSIT-SG’), Part II.3 is deleted; 2. in Chapter 12 (model ‘NZ-TRANSIT-SG’), in the notes to Part II, notes (5) and (6) are deleted.

In Article 3 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/399, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following: ‘1. For a transitional period until 3 December 2024, as regards consignments of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, the use of certificates issued in accordance with the models set out in Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 45 and 49 of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235, as applicable before the amendments made to that Implementing Regulation by this Regulation, shall continue to be authorised for the entry into the Union provided that those certificates were issued no later than 3 September 2024.’.

For a transitional period until 30 April 2025, as regards consignments of certain categories of animals and certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption, the use of certificates issued in accordance with the models set out in Chapters 29, 30 and 31 of Annex III to Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/2235, as applicable before the amendments made to that Implementing Regulation by this Regulation, shall continue to be authorised for the entry into the Union provided that those certificates were issued no later than 30 January 2025.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.