The Aquatic Animal Health and Alien Species in Aquaculture, Animals, and Marketing of Seed, Plant and Propagating Material (Legislative Functions and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 U.K.

6.—(1) The Animals (Legislative Functions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 3—

(a) in paragraph (3), in inserted Article 2a—

(i) in paragraph 1, omit point (d);

(ii) in paragraph 2, omit point (c);

(b) in paragraph (9), in inserted Article 9b—

(i) omit paragraphs 3 and 7;

(ii) in paragraph 5, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Parliament”.

(3) In regulation 4—

(a) in paragraph (3), in substituted Article 4, for paragraph 2 substitute—

“2.   The appropriate authority that introduced the safeguard measures must notify each affected exporting country of the reasons for introducing such measures.”;

(b) in paragraph (4), in substituted paragraph 7—

(i) after “each” insert “other”;

(ii) for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”;

(c) in paragraph (8), in substituted paragraph 5, in the words before point (a), omit “Each authority which in relation to any part of the United Kingdom is”;

(d) in paragraph (16), in sub-paragraph (b), for “(f)” substitute “(g)”;

(e) in paragraph (17), in substituted Article 24—

(i) in paragraph 5, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Parliament”;

(ii) omit paragraphs 3 and 7;

(f) in paragraph (19), for “paragraphs (19) and (20)”, substitute “paragraphs (20) and (21)”;

(g) in paragraph (21)(a), for paragraph (i) substitute—

“(i) in the fourth paragraph, for “Member States shall aim their monitoring programmes” substitute “The monitoring programmes must be designed by the Secretary of State, with the consent of each other authority which, in relation to any part of Great Britain, is the appropriate authority so as”;”;

(4) In regulation 5—

(a) in paragraph (3), in inserted Article 2a—

(i) in paragraph 1, omit point (d);

(ii) in paragraph 2, omit point (c);

(b) in paragraph (8), in inserted Article 12a—

(i) omit paragraphs 3 and 7;

(ii) in paragraph 5, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Parliament”.

(5) In regulation 8—

(a) omit paragraph (2);

(b) in paragraph (8)(a)—

(i) for paragraph (i) substitute—

“(i) for “the Community” substitute “Great Britain”;”;

(ii) in paragraph (ii), for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”;

(c) in paragraph (9), in the inserted Article 17(3)—

(i) omit point (d);

(ii) in the words after point (b)—

(aa) for “any” substitute “either”

(bb) for “points (a) to (c)” substitute “point (a) or (b)”;

(d) in paragraph (22)—

(i) in sub-paragraph (a)(ii), in the substituted subparagraph, for “Community legislation” substitute “retained EU law”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (b)(ii), for sub-paragraph (aa) substitute—

“(aa) for “the Community” substitute “Great Britain”;”;

(iii) in sub-paragraph (c)—

(aa) in paragraph (i), in the substituted words, for “the United Kingdom” substitute “Great Britain”;

(bb) for paragraph (ii) substitute—

“(ii) in point (c), for “the Community” substitute “Great Britain”;”;

(e) omit paragraphs (25) and (27);

(f) in paragraph (28), in substituted Article 52—

(i) omit paragraphs 3 and 7;

(ii) in paragraph 5, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Parliament”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 6 in force at 31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion date, see reg. 1(2)(a)

(1)

S.I. 2019/588; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.