The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat, Meat Products, Minced Meat and Meat Preparations) (Wales) Regulations 2001

Title, application and commencement

1  These Regulations may be cited as the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Marking of Meat, Meat Products, Minced Meat and Meat Preparations) (Wales) Regulations 2001; they apply to Wales and shall come into force at 5pm on 9th May 2001.

Amendment to the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994

2.  In—

(a)sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 3A; and

(b)sub-paragraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph 3B

of Part VI of Schedule 2 to the Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations 1994(1) for “2001/172/EC”, substitute “2001/356/EC(2)”.

Amendment to the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995

3.  In sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 9 of Schedule 12 to the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995( ) for “2001/172/EC”, substitute “2001/356/EC”.

Amendment to the Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations 1995

4.—(1) The Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations 1995(3) are amended in accordance with this regulation and a reference to a regulation by number alone is a reference to the regulation so numbered in those Regulations.

(2) In regulation 7—

(a)omit paragraphs (1A) and (1B); and

(b)in paragraph (6), for “2001/172/EC”, substitute “2001/356/EC”.

(3) In regulation 8—

(a)omit paragraphs (4A) and (4B); and

(b)in paragraph (7), for “2001/172/EC”, substitute “2001/356/EC”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(4)

D Elis Thomas

Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

at 4.35pm on 9th May 2001