2021 No. 288

Agriculture

Food

The Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021
Made
26th August 2021
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
27th August 2021
Coming into force
1st October 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 10A(1) of schedule 2 of the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1 October 2021.

Amendment of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries
2
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Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries is amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
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In paragraph 2 of Article 4za (transitional modification for imports from certain countries and territories), in the definition of “the transitional period”, for “30 September” substitute “31 December”.
ASH DENHAM
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
26th August 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend Commission Decision 2000/572/EC which lays down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations from third countries.
Regulation 2 amends Article 4za of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC which modifies the import conditions for imports of meat preparations from countries and territories subject to special transitional import arrangements (EEA states, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Switzerland). It amends Article 4za to provide that the import condition in point 3 of Article 3 of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC, that meat preparations have been deep frozen at the production plant or plants of origin, does not apply until 1 January 2022 where the production plant or plants of origin are in a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements.
A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.
S.S.I. 2012/177. Paragraph 10A of schedule 2 was inserted by S.S.I. 2021/138.
EUDN 2000/572, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2020/455 and 2021/161. Article 3 (import conditions) was inserted by Commission Decision 2008/592/EC, made under Article 8(4) of Council Directive 2002/99/EC.