The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Scottish Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 333

AGRICULTURE

The Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003

Made

26th June 2003

Laid before the Scottish Parliament

27th June 2003

Coming into force

22nd September 2003

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 3) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 22nd September 2003.

Amendment to the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002

2.  Part VIII of Schedule 2 to the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002(2) is amended by substituting for the words “Commission Decision 2001/7/EC (O.J. No. L 2, 5.1.2001, p.27)” where they appear in paragraph 1 under the heading “A. General” the words “Council Directive 2002/33/EC (O.J. No. L 315, 19.11.2002, p.14)”.

ALLAN WILSON

Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh

26th June 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (“the principal Regulations”) which implement Council Directive 97/78/EC laying down the principles governing the organisation of veterinary checks on products entering the Community from third countries (O.J. No. L 24, 30.1.98, p.9).

Regulation 2 amends Part VIII of Schedule 2 of the principal Regulations to give effect to Council Directive 2002/33/EC (O.J. No. L 315, 19.11.2002, p.14) which amends the existing controls on the importation of animal by-products by introducing into Council Directive 90/425/EEC (O.J. No. L 224, 18.8.1990, p.29) (which sets out veterinary requirements for checks on such products) the terms of Council Regulation 1774/2002 (O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p.1). That Regulation lays down health rules concerning animal by-products intended for human consumption.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared in respect of these Regulations.

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15(3). The functions conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, insofar as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.

(2)

S.S.I. 2002/445, as amended by S.S.I. 2002/565 and 2003/165 and 225.