The Cattle Database (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 94

ANIMALS, ENGLAND

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Cattle Database (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002

Made

21st January 2002

Laid before Parliament

21st January 2002

Coming into force

11th February 2002

The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, being designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on her by that section, and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Cattle Database (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2002; they extend to England and shall come into force on 11th February 2002.

Amendment to the Cattle Database Regulations 1998

2.  In so far as they extend to England, the Cattle Database Regulations 1998(3) are amended by substituting for the number “7” in regulation 7(e) the number “3”.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

21st January 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to England, amend the Cattle Database Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1796) as they concern the period within which a keeper must give notification to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the movement of cattle.

The effect of the amendment made by the Regulations is to reduce the period within which notification of movements of cattle must be posted or made by electronic means to the Minister from seven to three days (regulation 2). This is in accordance with the requirements of the second indent of Article 7.1 of Regulation (EC) No. 1760/2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals (OJ L204, 11.8.2000, p. 1).

A regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1998/1796.