These Regulations implement in Scotland Commission Decisions 2001/415/EC, 2001/430/EC, and 2001/437/EC, each of which amends Commission Decision 2001/356/EC (concerning certain protection measures with regard to foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom). They amend the restrictions on imports and exports of certain animals and animal products contained in the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2001 (“the principal Regulations”) to continue the effect of those restrictions until midnight on 20th July 2001.

They make further changes in relation to the restrictions on import and export to the restrictions on the export of horses, to allow for the export of certain animals and animal products if the meat and milk processed originated in Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man and otherwise enable the lifting of the restrictions in those territories, and to lift certain restrictions on frozen bovine semen and embryos.

Regulation 2(8) and (11) corrects omissions in the principal Regulations.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been prepared for these Regulations.