The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat, Meat Products, Minced Meat and Meat Preparations) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 No. 358

Amendment to the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995

3.—(1) The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995(1) shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

(2) In regulation 9(1)(2), for “and processed” there shall be substituted “or meat from such species or other biungulates processed in Great Britain”.

(3) After sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 there shall be inserted–

“(3) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to fresh meat originating from outside the United Kingdom and handled in accordance with Article 2(2)(c) of Decision 2001/356/EC.

(4) Fresh meat to which sub-paragraph (3) applies must be marked in accordance with paragraph 1 of this Schedule.

(5) In this paragraph, “Decision 2001/356/EC” means Commission Decision 2001/356/EC of 4th May 2001 (concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom and repealing Commission Decision 2001/172/EC of 1st March 2001), as amended by Commission Decision 2001/372/EC, Commission Decision 2001/415/EC, Commission Decision 2001/430/EC, Commission Decision 2001/437/EC, Commission Decision 2001/518/EC, and Commission Decision 2001/547/EC and Commission Decision 2001/708/EC.”.

(1)

S.I. 1995/539 amended by S.I. 1995/731, 1763, 2148, 2200, 3124 and 3189, S.I. 1996/1148 and 2235, S.I. 1997/1729 and 2074, S.S.I. 2000/62, 171 and 288 and S.S.I. 2001/160. Paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 was added by S.S.I. 2001/160.

(2)

Regulation 9 was substituted by S.S.I. 2001/160.