The Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Official Controls (Import of High Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2024 and come into force on 7 March 2024.

(2) These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793

2.—(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In Article 3 (sampling and analyses)—

(a) after paragraph (e), insert—

“(ea) for food listed in Annex II due to the presence of Listeria, the sampling and the analyses for the control of Listeria must be performed in accordance with the sampling procedures and the analytical reference methods laid down in Annex IIIa;”,

(b) in paragraph (f), for “and (e)” substitute “, (e) and (ea)”.

(3) In Article 10(2) (results of sampling and analyses performed by the competent authorities of the third country), at the end of sub-paragraph (d), insert—

“;

(e) the absence of Listeria in 25 g, for consignments of food listed in Annex II due to risk of microbiological contamination by Listeria.”.

(4) For Annex I (food and feed of non-animal origin from certain third countries subject to a temporary increase of official controls at border control posts and control points), substitute the Annex in schedule 1 of these Regulations.

(5) For Annex II (food and feed from certain third countries subject to special conditions for entry into Great Britain due to contamination risk by mycotoxins, including aflatoxins, pesticide residues, pentachlorophenol and dioxins and microbiological contamination), substitute the Annex in schedule 2 of these Regulations.

(6) After Annex III (sampling procedures and analytical reference methods referred to in Article 3(e)), insert the Annex in schedule 3 of these Regulations.

JENNI MINTO

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

16th January 2024