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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Products of Animal Origin (Third Country Imports) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. 2002/445) (“the principal Regulations”) as follows:

1.  They implement Commission Decision of 9th December 2002 laying down interim safeguard measures with regard to imports of products of animal origin for personal consumption by substituting a new regulation 3 and a regulation 3A for the existing regulation 3 in the principal Regulations. This substitution amends the existing exemption from the general requirements of the principal Regulations for personal imports meeting certain criteria so that the exemption no longer applies, with two exceptions, to meat, meat products, milk and milk products (regulation 2(2)).

2.  They make one consequential amendment in relation to the amended exemptions provision (regulation 2(3)).

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