Explanatory Notes

Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020

2020 asp 17

1 October 2020

Commentary on Provisions

Part 1 – Retained EU law

Section 10 – Marketing standards: agricultural products

128.This section lists the agricultural products in respect of which the Scottish Ministers are able to make regulations under section 9. The list provides further detail of the products covered by reference to the detailed Annexes of the CMO Regulation.

129.Subsections (3) and (4) provide for the Scottish Ministers to be able, by regulations subject to the affirmative procedure, to amend the list of products in subsection (1) by adding or removing products, or by altering the description of the products