The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Imports of Captive Birds) Regulations 2007

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2007 No. 1080 (W.127)

ANIMALS, WALES

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Imports of Captive Birds) Regulations 2007

Made

28 March 2007

Coming into force

1 April 2007

The National Assembly for Wales is 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.

The National Assembly for Wales makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section:

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Imports of Captive Birds) Regulations 2007.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 1 April 2007.

2.  In regulation 16(4) of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006(3), for “1 April 2007” substitute “1 July 2007”.

3.  Regulation 2(3) of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2006(4) is revoked.

4.  The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2006(5) are revoked.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(6)

D. Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

28 March 2007

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (Wales) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/1536 (W. 153)) (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2 amends regulation 16(4) of the principal Regulations so as to give effect to the extension until 1 July 2007 of the current European Union ban on the import of captive birds from outside the European Union. The ban is provided for in Community legislation under Commission Decision 2005/760/EC concerning certain protection measures in relation to highly pathogenic avian influenza in certain third countries for the import of captive birds (OJ No. L285, 28.10.2005, p. 52), as amended, in particular by Commission Decision 2005/862/EC, and by Commission Decision of 23 March 2007 (OJ No. L84, 24.03.2007, p.44), which gives effect to the further extension of the ban.

Regulations 3 and 4 revoke earlier amendments to the principal Regulations which gave effect to previous extensions of the import ban.

(1)

S.I. 2005/2766, as amended by S.I. 2006/3329.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 2006/1536 (W. 153), amended by S.I. 2006/2128 (W. 198) and S.I. 2006/3452 (W. 313).

(4)

S.I. 2006/2128 (W. 198).

(5)

S.I. 2006/3452 (W. 313).

(6)

1998 c. 38.