The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2009

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2009 No. 192 (W.24)

ANIMALS, WALES

The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2009

Made

2 February 2009

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

4 February 2009

Coming into force

25 February 2009

The Welsh Ministers have been designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

The Welsh Ministers have carried out the consultation required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(3).

Citation and commencement

1.  The title of these Regulations is The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2009; they apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 25 February 2009.

Amendment of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2008

2.  The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2008(4) (“the principal Regulations”) are amended in accordance with regulation 3.

Amendments to the Welsh version of principal Regulations

3.  The Welsh version of the principal Regulations is amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 15(1)(c) replace “sydd ag” with “a chanddo yn ei feddiant, neu i gyflenwr,” and after the third time “anifeiliaid” appears, delete “yn ei feddiant”;

(b) in paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 3 replace “rheoliad” with “paragraff”; and

(c) in paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6 replace “(d)” with “(ch)”.

Elin Jones

Minister for Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

2 February 2009

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations amend The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/3154 (W.282)) (“the principal Regulations”) which enforce Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ No. L147, 31.5.2001, p.1) as amended.

The Welsh version of the principal Regulations is amended to: include a reference to “cyflenwr” (“supplier”) (regulation 15(1)(c)); replace the word “rheoliad” with “paragraff” (paragraph 5(6) of Schedule 3) and replace “(d)” with “(ch)” (paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 6).

A regulatory impact assessment on the effect of this instrument on the costs of business has not been prepared.

(1)

S.I. 2008/1792.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

OJ No. L31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 202/2008 (OJ No. L60, 5.3.2008, p.17).

(4)

S.I. 2008/3154 (W.282).