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Hides, horns and trophies model health certificates: version history

Updated 30 April 2024

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

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Competent authorities must provide a health certificate to exporters of animals and animal products to Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales), the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

Competent authorities should use the updates below to make changes to health certificates for exporters to ensure they are in line with the current version of the model health certificates.

GBHC540 FH-U: Fresh or chilled hides and skins of ungulates

Version 1.0

Published May 2023:

  • replaces GBHC133E and GBHC133X

GBHC541 TH-U: Treated hides and skins of ungulates

Version 1.1

Published August 2023:

  • Boxes II.a and II.b deleted from Notes for Completion header

Version 1.0

Published April 2023 – accepted until 29 April 2024

  • replaces GBHC134E and GBHC134X

GBHC542 TH-R/E: Treated hides and skins of ruminants and equidae

Version 1.0

Published May 2023:

  • replaces GBHC135E and GBHC135X

GBHC543 GT: Game trophies

Version 1.1

Published August 2023:

  • Boxes II.a and II.b deleted from Notes for Completion header

Version 1.0

Published April 2023 – accepted until 29 April 2024

  • replaces GBHC137E and GBHC137X

GBHC544 GTT: Treated game trophies

Version 1.0

Published May 2023:

  • replaces GBHC136E and GBHC136X

GBHC141 BHH: Bones, horns and hooves not for feed or fertiliser

Version 3.0

Published: May 2022:

  • Notes: guidance note on retained EU legislation expanded, beginning “References to European Union legislation…”

  • duplicate note (“Note for the importer”) removed

Version 1.1

Certificate published June 2021 - accepted until 1 November 2022:

  • I.16: removed “in Great Britain, Channel Islands or Isle of Man”

  • certificate reference number added to each page

  • certificate version number added to each page

Version 1.0

  • certificate published November 2020 - accepted until 1 May 2022

GBHC546 HHF: Horns and hooves for fertiliser

Version 1.0

Published May 2023:

  • replaces GBHC142E and GBHC142X

GBHC197: Hides and skins from New Zealand

Version 1.0

  • certificate published June 2021

GBHC201: Game trophies from New Zealand

Version 1.0

  • certificate published June 2021
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