[Nhcoll-l] Shipping to Sicily

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Karsten

The EU (of which Italy is a part) has specific regulations in place to control import and export of animal by-products (under which scientific specimens fall).  They are difficult to navigate and each country in the EU has the right to be more restrictive than the EU regulation.  Dirk Neumann has been working very hard to try and get scientific specimens declared outside of the scope of the regulation and thus not requiring inspection.  He recently sent a message indicating that he has made some progress in this regard but it is not yet in force.

The regulations and individual country websites can be found here:  http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/biosafety/animalbyproducts/websites_en.htm

Some are unfortunately not in English and thus even more difficult to follow but the general gist of the regulations are that institutions are required to register themselves within their local authority in order to be able to accept samples (although, if you talk to the institutions, in most cases, they are unaware of this).  I have not shipped to Italy but have had success sending to other EU institutions by including a signed 3-177, copy of the invoice and a letter like the attached on the outside of the package and sending material by FedEx or UPS.

Hope that helps

Andy

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 Andy Bentley
 Ichthyology Collection Manager
 University of Kansas
Biodiversity Institute
 Dyche Hall
 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
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Tel: (785) 864-3863
Fax: (785) 864-5335
 Email: abentley at ku.edu<mailto:abentley at ku.edu>
http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu<http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu/>

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http://www.spnhc.org

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From: nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Hartel, Karsten
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:25 PM
To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Shipping to Sicily

All,

We are in the process of reviewing shippimng specimens in EtOH to Sicily.  If anyone has had good or bad experience with shipping to Italy's Regione Autonoma Siciliana we would be grateful for any feedback off-line or on-line.

With thanks in advance.


Karsten Edward Hartel
Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138
(617) 495-2477 e-mail: hartel at oeb.harvard.edu<mailto:hartel at oeb.harvard.edu>
http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html

Search our Ichthyology Specimen Database with images.  Be sure to select Ichthyology under Institutional Catalog: http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu<http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/>>http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu<http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/>

Inland Fishes of Massachusetts now available on line http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124490

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