This Decree-Law introduces in the national legal system EC Directive No. 2002/99/CE ruling on sanitary measures for production, transformation, distribution, and introduction of animal products used for human consumption. The Decree-Law devotes particular attention to import of animal products from third countries. Four Annexes provide, respectively: list of diseases having implications in the trade of animal products; treatments for eliminating sanitary risks deriving from milk and meat; identi