The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.6) Regulations 2007

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke and re-make with amendments the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No.5) Regulations 2007. The Regulations implement Commission Decision 2007/709/EC (to be published in OJ No.L287 on 1.11.2007) amending Decision 2007/554/EC concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom. Decision 2007/709/EC further extends the categories of, and areas from which, meat may be exported.

They regulate—

(a) the importation and dispatch of live animals (regulations 3 and 4);

(b) the export of meat from bovine, ovine caprine and porcine animals and other biungulates, (regulation 5);

(c) the marking of meat not eligible for export (regulation 6);

(d) the export of meat products, milk and dairy products (regulations 7, 8 and 9);

(e) the export of semen, ova or embryos of animals of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or other biungulates (regulation 10), hides and skins (regulation 11) and various animal products (regulation 12); and

(f) personal exports (regulation 16).

They create an offence of offering to export anything which it is prohibited to export under the Regulations (regulation 17).

They provide powers for enforcement, and powers for officers of Revenue and Customs (regulations 19 to 21) and create an offence of obstruction (regulation 22).

Breach of the Regulations is an offence, punishable with up to two years’ imprisonment.

The Regulations are enforced by the Secretary of State or the local authority (regulation 27).

An impact assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.