The Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2023 No. 367

Agriculture

Food

The Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023

Made

5th December 2023

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

7th December 2023

Coming into force

1st February 2024

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 10A(1) of schedule 2 of the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012(1) and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023 and come into force on 1 February 2024.

Amendment of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries

2.—(1) Commission Decision 2000/572/EC(2) laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations from third countries is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph 2 of Article 4za (transitional modification for imports from certain countries and territories), in the definition of “the transitional period”, for “31 January 2024” substitute “29 April 2024”.

MAIRI GOUGEON

A member of the Scottish Government

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

5th December 2023

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations )

These Regulations amend Commission Decision 2000/572/EC which lays down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations from third countries.

Regulation 2 amends Article 4za of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC which modifies the import conditions for imports of meat preparations from countries and territories subject to special transitional import arrangements (EEA states, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Switzerland). It amends Article 4za to provide that the import condition that meat preparations have been deep frozen at the production plant or plants of origin does not apply until 30 April 2024, where the production plant or plants of origin are in one of those countries or territories.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

(1)

S.S.I. 2012/177. Paragraph 10A of schedule 2 was inserted by S.S.I. 2021/138.

(2)

EUDN 2000/572, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2020/455, 2021/161, 2021/288, 2021/432, 2022/193 and 2022/371. Article 3 (import conditions) was inserted by Commission Decision 2008/592/EC, made under Article 8(4) of Council Directive 2002/99/EC.