The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 1 (W. 1)

Exiting The European Union, Wales

Food, Wales

The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

Made

4 January 2021

Laid before Senedd Cymru

5 January 2021

Coming into force

6 January 2021

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011(1), make the following Regulations.

Title, application and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 6 January 2021.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

2.  In Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries(2)(‘the Commission Decision’), after “meat preparations” insert “from third countries”.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

3.—(1) Paragraph (2) of this regulation has effect during the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending at midnight on 31 March 2021.

(2) Article 3 of the Commission Decision applies as if—

(a) in paragraph 3, before “they”, there were inserted “other than in relation to imports of meat preparations originating from, or produced in, an establishment situated in a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements,”;

(b) at the end, there were inserted—

“4.   In this Article, “territory subject to special transitional import arrangements” has the same meaning as in point (a) of the definition of “territory subject to special transitional import arrangements” in paragraph 2 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products(3).”.

Lesley Griffiths

Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

4 January 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252)).

Regulation 2 amends Article 1 of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries in order to clarify that this Decision applies to imports into Wales from third countries as defined in Article 1(2) of that Decision.

Regulation 3 temporarily suspends the requirement for meat preparations imported into Wales from establishments situated in EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland to be deep frozen.

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252). Paragraph 11A of Schedule 2 is inserted by regulation 2(2) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639 (W. 344)).

(2)

EUDN 2000/572/EC is amended by regulation 40 of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462). Article 1(1) is renumbered as such, and the definition of ‘third country’ is inserted by regulation 40(2) of those Regulations.

(3)

Annex 6 Regulation (EU) 2017/625 is inserted by regulation 29(4) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481).