Statutory Instruments
AGRICULTURE
LIVESTOCK INDUSTRIES
Made
10th December 1992
Laid before Parliament
11th December 1992
Coming into force
1st January 1993
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales in relation to Wales in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 10(1), (2) and (8) of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behlaf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (EEC) Regulations 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.
2.—(1) No person shall collect, process, store or transport for the purpose of export to another member State and porcime semen unless it complies with article 3 of Council Directive 90/429/EEC laying down the animal health requirements applicable to intra-Community trade in and imports of semen of domestic animals of the pordine species(2).
(2) The appropriate Minister, upon being satisfied that a semen collection centre complies with the provisions of Council Directive 90/429/EEC (in particular Annex A thereof) shall, for the purposes of export of porcine semen to another member State—
(a)approve the semen collection centre, and
(b)issue the centre with a registration number.
(3) The appropriate Minister may approve isolation accommodation for the purposes of Annex B to Council Directive 90/429/EEC.
(4) Any premises approved under paragraph (2) or (3) above shall be supervised by a veterinary inspector appointed under the Animal Health Act 1981(3) who shall report to the appropriate Minister any breach of any provision of the Directive.
(5) Every approval granted under paragraph (2) or (3) above shall be in writing and may be withdrawn or suspended after notice in writing has been served on the person having charge of the collection centre or isolation accommodation informing him of the breach the Directive complained of.
(6) It shall be the duty of a veterinary inspector appointed under the Animal Health Act 1981 to issue animal haelth certificates for the purposes of Council Directive 90/429/EEC.
3. The Artificial Insemination of Pigs (England and Wales) Regulations 1964(4) and the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964(5) shall not apply to the collection, processing, storage and transport of porcine semen for the purpose of export to another member State.
In witness whereof the Official Seal of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food is hereunto affixed on 10th December 1992
L.S.
John Selwyn Gummer
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector Munro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
10th December 1992
David Hunt
Secretary of State for Wales
10th December 1992
(This note does not form part of the Regulations)
These Regulations implement the provisions of Council Directive 90/429/EEC in relation to exports to member States and the approval of semen collection centres which engage in intra-Community trade in porcine semen. They disapply the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (England and Wales) Regulations 1964 and the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964 which continue to regulate the domestic trade in porcine semen.
1984 c. 40. See section 10(8) for a definition of “appropriate Minister”.
OJ No L224, 18.8.90, p.62.
S.I. 1964/1172.