These Regulations make changes to the operation of official controls during the transitional staging period (“the TSP”), established under Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products (“the Official Controls Regulation”), during which the requirements for certain official documents and for the performance of official controls in relation to some categories of animals, plants and other goods imported into Great Britain (“relevant goods”) have been temporarily eased. The TSP applies in relation to those categories of imports arriving in Great Britain from a European Economic Area member State, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland (“relevant third countries”).