HEALTH CERTIFICATE
for fishery and aquaculture products intended for export to the European Community

Reference No: ..................................................

1. Details identifying the fishery products

   Description of fishery/aquaculture products;(¹): 

   species (scientific name): 

   presentation of product and type of treatment;(²): 

   Code number (where available): 

   Type of packaging: 

   Number of packages: 

   Net weight: 

   Requisite storage and transport temperature: 

2. Origin of products

   Name(s) and official number(s) of premise(s) approved or registered by FDA NMFS-NOAA(¹) for export to the EC: 

3. Destination of products
   
   The products are dispatched

   from: 

   (place of dispatch)

   to: 

   (country and place of destination)

   by the following means of transport: 

   Name and address of dispatcher: 

   Name of consignee and address at place of destination: 

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   (¹)Delete where applicable.
   (²)Live, refrigerated, frozen, salted, smoked, preserved.
4. Health attestation
   
   The official inspector hereby certifies that the fishery products specified above:
   
   1. were caught and handled on board vessels and were landed, handled, and where appropriate prepared, processed, frozen, thawed, packaged, marked, and transported hygienically and in compliance with the relevant United States public health standard requirements of the Code of Federal Regulation which have been recognised for this purpose as equivalent to the European Community standards as prescribed in Council Decision 98/258/EC;
   2. have satisfactorily undergone health controls and organoleptic, parasitological, chemical, and microbiological checks laid down for certain categories of fishery in compliance with the relevant United States public health standards requirements of the Code of Federal Regulation which have been recognised for this purpose as equivalent to the European Community standards as prescribed in Council Decision 98/258/EC;
   3. do not come from toxic species or species containing biotoxins;
   4. in addition, in the case of frozen or processed bivalve molluscs, the later have been gathered in production areas subject to conditions at least equivalent to those laid down in Council Directive 91/492/EEC of 15 July 1991 laying down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs.

(¹)The color of the stamp and signature must be different from that of the other particulars in the certificate.