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Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 467

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002

Made

4th March 2002

Laid before Parliament

4th March 2002

Coming into force

6th March 2002

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, being designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by that section, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002 and shall extend to England.

(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 6th March 2002.

Amendment of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000

2.—(1) The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000(3) shall be amended in relation to England in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 12—

(a)in paragraph (2) after the words “Council Directive 64/432/EEC” there shall be added the words—

and is satisfied that the operator of the assembly centre has agreed to comply with the requirements for the operation of the centre which an inspector has specified in an operational agreement as being the requirements the inspector believes are necessary to ensure the centre is capable of being operated in accordance with the second indent of Article 3(2) of Council Directive 90/425/EEC; and

(b)in paragraph (3), after the words “cattle or pigs” there shall be inserted the words “or sheep or goats”.

(3) In Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 9, after the words “Commission Decision 97/315/EC (OJ No. L137, 28.5.97, p. 20);” there shall be inserted the following—

Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (OJ No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (OJ No. L123, 4.5.2001, p. 26), 2001/378/EC (OJ No. L132, 15.5.2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (OJ No. L138, 22.5.2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (OJ No, L149, 2.6.2001, p. 40), 2001/488/EC (OJ No. L176, 29.6.2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (OJ No. L261, 29.9.2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (OJ No. L335, 19.12.2001, p. 21) and 2002/153/EC (OJ No. L50, 21.2.2002, p. 98);.

(4) In Schedule 3, Part I after paragraph 15 there shall be added the following paragraph—

Animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease

16.  Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (OJ No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (OJ No. L123, 4.5.2001, p. 26), 2001/378/EC (OJ No. L132, 15.5.2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (OJ No. L138, 22.5.2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (OJ No. L149, 2.6.2001, p. 40), 2001/488/EC (OJ No. L176, 29.6.2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (OJ No. L 261, 29.9.2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (OJ No. L 335, 19.12.2001, p. 21) and 2002/153/EC (OJ No. L50, 21.2.2002, p. 98).

Relevant provisions: article 2a

Whitty

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

4th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 6th March 2002, amend the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/1673, as amended) to make provision in relation to England to give effect to—

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(3)

S.I. 2000/1673; as amended by S.I. 2000/2266; S.I. 2000/2524 and S.I. 2000/2900.