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I have not had good experiences in shipping dried insect specimens to
Sicily, and this has perhaps been due to the difficulty of getting the
necessary Italian phytosanitary permits (not a fish problem I suspect),
which don't exist as far as I can tell, but are required. However, when
shipping to Sicily I supplied the phone number of my colleague in
Catania, and Italian customs/inspection people phoned his office when he
wasn't there to confirm the shipment was expected, and he wasn't there. A
return phone number was not left for him and despite strenuous efforts on
his part the relevant people could not be contacted, and four months
later the specimens reappeared at my office. My colleague was most
apologetic and appalled, but also indicated it is a problem when non-EU
specimens are sent directly. Other, more indirect, avenues were then
pursued (like having non-Italian EU colleagues willing to receive and
then send specimens on with great success (but you do need the
phytosanitary permits for those countries now, but much easier to
obtain), or taking them myself (the best of all - colleagues are very
grateful, canoli/food are very good there).<br><br>
At 02:47 PM 9/26/2012, Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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The regulations and individual country websites can be found here:
<a href="http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/biosafety/animalbyproducts/websites_en.htm">
http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/biosafety/animalbyproducts/websites_en.htm</a>
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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.<br>
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Hope that helps<br>
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Andy<br>
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Ichthyology Collection Manager<br>
University of Kansas<br>
Biodiversity Institute<br>
Dyche Hall<br>
1345 Jayhawk Boulevard<br>
Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561<br>
USA<br><br>
Tel: (785) 864-3863<br>
Fax: (785) 864-5335 <br>
Email: <a href="mailto:abentley@ku.edu">abentley@ku.edu</a>
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http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu</a><br>
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<b>From:</b> nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu
[<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" eudora="autourl">
mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Hartel,
Karsten<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 26, 2012 12:25 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Shipping to Sicily<br>
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All,<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
With thanks in advance. <br>
<br>
<br>
<b>Karsten Edward Hartel<br>
</b>Curatorial Associate in Ichthyology<br>
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University<br>
26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, USA 02138<br>
(617) 495-2477 e-mail:
<a href="mailto:hartel@oeb.harvard.edu">hartel@oeb.harvard.edu</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html" eudora="autourl">
http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Ichthyology/index.html</a><br>
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Search our Ichthyology Specimen Database with images. Be sure to
select Ichthyology under Institutional Catalog:
<a href="http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/">
http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu</a>
><a href="http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu/" eudora="autourl">
http://mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu</a><br>
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Inland Fishes of Massachusetts now available on line
<a href="http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124490">
http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/124490</a><br>
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