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Scottish Statutory Instruments
Agriculture
Food
Made
13th March 2024
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
15th March 2024
Coming into force
30th April 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.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 30 April 2024.
2.—(1) 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) is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 3 (import conditions) omit point 3.
(3) Omit Article 4za (transitional modification for imports from certain countries and territories).
3. The following are revoked—
(a)regulation 6(4) of the Animals, Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020(3),
(b)the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021(4),
(c)the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021(5),
(d)regulation 2 of the Animal Products (Transitional Import Conditions) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2021(6),
(e)the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022(7),
(f)regulation 3 of the Official Controls and Import Conditions (Transitional Periods) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022(8), and
(g)the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023(9).
JIM FAIRLIE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
13th March 2024
(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 Commission Decision 2000/572/EC to remove the import condition that meat preparations from third countries have been deep-frozen at the production plant or plants of origin.
Regulation 3 revokes, in consequence, other instruments or the provisions of other instruments which modified that import condition.
S.S.I. 2012/177. Paragraph 10A of schedule 2 was inserted by S.S.I. 2021/138.
EUDN 2000/572, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2020/455, 2021/161, 2021/288, 2021/432, 2022/193, 2022/371 and 2023/367. Article 3 (import conditions) was inserted by Commission Decision 2008/592/EC, made under Article 8(4) of Council Directive 2002/99/EC.
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