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Official Assurances Programme

20 Certification of Consignments not specifically covered by OMARs

Version 7

December 2008

20.1 Application

This Part applies to all consignments for which export certificates are required or requested, which are not covered in the overseas market access requirements of the intended market.

20.2 Preparation of New Zealand Standard Export Certificates

20.2.1 New Zealand standard export certificates are export certificates that are available to exporters for consignments of animal material or products consigned to an importing country where there are no overseas market access requirements notified or known.

20.2.2 New Zealand standard export certificates must be raised by the exporter in accordance with clause 20.4 of this Programme and the help-file on E-cert.

20.2.3 New Zealand standard export certificates may be issued by the authorised person at their discretion.

20.3 Commercial risk

20.3.1 All consignments certified under clause 20.2 are at the exporter’s own commercial risk. Commercial risk means acceptance by the exporter that the NZFSA certificates are given in good faith based on the exporter’s assurances that all necessary enquiries have been made and that there is no known impediment to entry of the product into the country concerned. It includes acceptance by the exporter that NZFSA will not intervene nor have any liability whatsoever for any loss, direct or indirect, that might occur to the exporter should the consignment be detained or rejected on arrival.

20.3.2 NZFSA will not provide export certificates at the exporter’s request, if the request is contrary to known general export or overseas market access requirements or to satisfy commercial arrangements of the exporter.

20.4 New Zealand standard export certificates

20.4.1 Table of certificate templates available in E-cert

20.4.2 Where an animal material or animal product for which an export certificate is being prepared is covered by the scope of more than one export certificate, such as certain game trophies that are both an inedible animal product and a game trophy, then the export certificate template that is the most specific must be used.

20.4.3 New Zealand standard export certificates are located in E-cert under the country “New Zealand” and carry the prefix “NZ” before the identifier number.

20.4.4 When completing the New Zealand standard export certificates the exporter:

a. must select the appropriate New Zealand standard export certificate (select New Zealand as the importing country to see templates available);

b. must select the appropriate origin attestation provided; or

c. despite subclause b. above, and in accordance with clause 23.5 of this programme; if the country of origin of the source animals cannot be traced for any of the raw material then the certificate must not show any of the animal origin statements that form part of the certificate template.

d. Where more specificity is required to describe the products origin than is supplied in the E-cert template options, one of the imported product declaration options available in Part 22 of this Programme may be inputted into the official information box.

e. When completing the Certificate for Animal Products for Human Consumption (NZ100), for meat products, casings and wild game meat, select the appropriate inspection attestation.

f. When completing the Certificate for Animal Products for Human Consumption (NZ100), for green runners, the following attestation must be selected:

“are green unprocessed runners suitable for further processing into casings.”

g. When completing the Certificate for Deer pizzles, Testicles, Sinews, Tails, Velvet, (NZ101) select the appropriate deer derivation attestation. In the case of velvet it may be appropriate to select both wild and farmed deer.

h. When completing the certificate for Animal Products Not for Human Consumption (NZ200), for pet food and/or animal feed, the following attestation must be selected:

i. “were processed in accordance with New Zealand regulatory requirements for items intended for animal consumption”

One or both of the following attestations must also be selected:

ii. “were derived from animals which have passed ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection at the time of slaughter”.

iii. “are raw material suitable for processing into pet food and/or animal feed.”

i. When completing the Certificate for Animal Products Not for Human Consumption (NZ200), for animal material and products not for animal consumption, the following attestation must be selected:

“after treatment, were subject to precautions to prevent contamination prior to dispatch from the processing premises”

j. When completing the Certificate for Animal-Derived Biological Products (NZ201), the following attestations are optional and may be selected where applicable:

i. “were derived from animals which passed ante-mortem and post-mortem inspection at the time of slaughter.”

This is to be used where animal materials are derived from animals that have been subjected to, and passed both ante and post-mortem inspection, for human consumption.

ii. “were derived from healthy animals”

This is to be used where animal materials such as blood are collected from animals which, at the time of collection, are free from clinical signs of infectious disease.

Collection premises for donor animals must comply with the AWAC “Blood Harvested for Commercial and Research Purposes” and the Animal Ethics Committee approval and protocols.