[Lfm] fedex inbound

Sun Jul 12 10:18:24 BST 2020

Thank you, Isabel, Nic, Teresa and Cahir

These are very helpful information for me and other flylab.

All the best
Kofan

On Sun, 12 Jul 2020, 08:33 Isabel Palacios, <i.palacios at qmul.ac.uk> wrote:

> those are wonderful news! and thanks to those involved.
> On 12/07/2020 01:09, Cahir O'Kane wrote:
>
> Hi Kofan and Isabel (and anyone else)
>
> The Drosophila Fedex import problem should (at least theoretically) be
> solved - although I don't know whether this is yet happening in practice.
>
> The problem was that Drosophila could only be imported into the EU in
> compliance with animal import procedures - which had been written with
> larger or agricultural animals in mind. They therefore had to be imported
> from outside the EU via a Border Inspection Post (BIP), where they were
> subject to a veterinary inspection. If flies are imported to the UK by
> Fedex, they arrive at Stansted Airport - unfortunately the UK government
> has no BIP there, and so the flies got destroyed there.
>
> However, EU legislation was passed in 2017, which was intended to solve
> this problem. After sustained lobbying by a number of people including Jörg
> Grosshans, aided by his lawyer sister Anne-Marie (and one brief supporting
> appearance from myself), a petition to the European Parliament found
> general support there, and a clause was included in the most recent omnibus
> legislation on imports of animals and animal products:
>
> The full legislation (for those who want the citation) is here:
> https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32017R0625
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> Article 48 (b) of this is a single line that exempts from control at
> border posts: "animals and goods intended for scientific purposes".
>
> This legislation was meant to enter into force in all member states on
> 14th December 2019 - this included the UK, and should still do.
>
> The bottom line
>
> 1. - Since 14th December 2019, UK (and EU27) Customs should no longer be
> requiring a veterinary inspection for Drosophila  melanogaster "intended
> for scientific purposes". It might be advisable to enter "for scientific
> purposes" on the Customs label, so that UK Customs will know this.
>
> 2. There should no longer any regulatory reason for problems with Fedex
> imports of Drosophila melanogaster to UK labs - nor to any EU27 Drosophila
> research lab.
>
> 3. Disclaimer - I don't know how far this happy conclusion has been tested
> in practice, either via Stansted, or for fly imports into any other EU
> member state from outside the EU (including from the UK to the EU after the
> transition period ends at the end of 2020).
>
> Sorry for the long explanation - but I thought that it's better to be
> informed if anyone wants to try it out.
>
> Best wishes to all,
>
> Cahir
>
>
> On 10/07/2020 17:18, Isabel Palacios wrote:
>
> no change that i know of
>
> it has to do with the lack of specialised personal at airports
>
> isa
>
> On 10/07/2020 16:18, kofan wrote:
>
> Dear all
> Hopefully everyone is good and slowly getting back to the lab.
> I remember fedex stopped Drosophila import a while ago, but just wonder if
> this has changed or any of you know a way around it?
>
> many thanks
> Kofan
>
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