2000 No. 449
FOOD

The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 16(1)(f), 17(2), 26 and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 19901 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, having had regard in accordance with section 48(4A)2 of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B)3 of that Act hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000 and shall come into force on 1st January 2001.

(2)

These Regulations extend to Scotland only.

Amendments to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 19962.

(1)

The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 19964 are amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this regulation.

(2)

The following regulation is inserted after regulation 3 (prohibition of sale of meat from older bovine animals):–

“Enforcement of Article 2.1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2777/20003A.

No person shall contravene Article 2.1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2777/2000 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market5.”.
SUSAN C. DEACON
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

(This note is not part of these Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996.

These Regulations provide for the enforcement of Article 2.1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2777/2000 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market (regulation 2(2)). Article 2.1, which will cease to have effect on 30th June 2001, provides that meat from bovine animals aged more than 30 months and slaughtered in the European Community after 1st January 2001 can only be released for human consumption or for export if tested negatively for bovine spongiform encephalopathy by an approved rapid test as referred to in Annex IV(A) to Commission Decision 98/272/EC (O.J. No. L 122, 24.4.98, p.59). Annex IV(A) was inserted into that Decision by Commission Decision 2000/374/EC (O.J. No. 135, 8.6.00, p.27).

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