These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Feeding Stuffs (Establishments and Intermediaries) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1872). These Regulations implement Council Decision 98/728/EC concerning a Community system of fees in the animal feed sector (O.J. No. L 346, 22.12.98, p.51).
These Regulations amend S.I. 1999/1872 by–
inserting new regulation 9A providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the specified approval body (“the competent body”) by a person applying to that body for approval of an establishment under regulation 5 or 7 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 3);
inserting new regulation 16A providing for the payment of fees and the reimbursement of the costs of laboratory analyses to the competent body by a person applying to it for approval as an “intermediary” under regulation 12 or 14 of that instrument, and making supplementary provisions relating thereto (regulation 4); and
inserting new Schedule 1A specifying the fees payable by virtue of new regulations 9A and 16A (regulation 5).
No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.