The Food (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2006

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2006 No. 459

FOOD

The Food (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2006

Made

7th September 2006

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

8th September 2006

Coming into force

1st October 2006

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(2), hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Food (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Revocation Regulations 2006 and come into force on 1st October 2006.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Revocations

2.  The instruments specified in column 1 of the Schedule are revoked.

LEWIS MACDONALD

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

7th September 2006

Regulation 2

SCHEDULE Revocations

Title	S.S.I. No.
The Food (Peanuts from China) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2002	2002/425
The Food (Peanuts from China) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003	2003/419
The Food (Figs, Hazelnuts and Pistachios from Turkey) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2002	2002/424
The Food (Figs, Hazelnuts and Pistachios from Turkey) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003	2003/413
The Food (Brazil Nuts) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2003	2003/396
The Food (Brazil Nuts) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003	2003/558
The Food (Pistachios from Iran) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2003	2003/414
The Food (Pistachios from Iran) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2005	2005/70
The Food (Peanuts from Egypt) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Regulations 2003	2003/418
The Food (Emergency Control) (Scotland) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2004	2004/210

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, provide for the revocation of specified instruments which implemented Commission Decisions imposing conditions on the import of specific products that could be contaminated with excessive levels of aflatoxins.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations.

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was modified by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46) (“the 1998 Act”), section 125 and Schedule 8, paragraph 15. The functions conferred on a Minister of the Crown under section 2(2), insofar as exercisable within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the 1998 Act.

(2)

O.J. No. L 31, 1.2.02, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 575/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the number and names of the permanent Scientific Panels of the European Food Safety Authority (O.J. No. L 100, 8.4.06, p.3).