The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1174 (W.122)

AGRICULTURE, WALES

The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2002

Made

25th April 2002

Coming into force

1st July 2002

The National Assembly for Wales being designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community makes the following Regulations:

Title, application and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade)(Amendment)(Wales) Regulations 2002; they apply to Wales only and come into force on 1st July 2002.

Amendments to the Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999

2.—(1) Insofar as they apply to Wales, the Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999(3) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In the definition of “export dedicated establishment” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation), the phrase “and may include such establishments which prepare DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted after the word “below”.

(3) In paragraph (a) of the definition of “export eligible goods” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2, the phrase “(other than any such goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom)” is inserted after the word “goods” where it appears first.

(4) In paragraph (1)(b) of regulation 12 (approval of establishments for the preparation or despatch of foreign origin export eligible goods, DBES and ECHS goods and foreign origin bovine by-products) the word “origin” is substituted for the word “original”.

(5) In paragraph (3)(a) of regulation 12, the phrase “or DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted after the word “goods” where it appears last.

(6) In paragraph (3)(c)(i) of regulation 12, the phrase “other than DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted after the word “abroad”.

(7) In paragraph (3)(c)(ii) of regulation 12, the phrase “other than DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted at the end.

(8) In paragraph (3)(a) of regulation 13 (requirements imposed on the operator of an establishment approved under regulation 12), the phrase “, DBES goods” is omitted.

(9) In paragraph (6) of regulation 13, the phrase “or DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted after the word “goods”.

(10) In paragraph (13) of regulation 13, the word “become” is substituted for the word “are”.

(11) In requirement 5 in the first column of Schedule 2 (required methods of operation for the preparation of export eligible goods in export dedicated establishments), the phrase “or DBES goods destined for placing on the market in the United Kingdom” is inserted at the end.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(4)

D.Elis-Thomas

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly

25th April 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note does not form part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/1103, as amended) (“the Principal Regulations”) insofar as they apply to Wales. The Principal Regulations give effect to Commission Decisions 98/692/EC (OJ No. L328, 4.12.98, p.28) and 98/564/EC (OJ No. L273, 9.10.98, p.37) which amended Council Decision 98/256/EC (OJ No. L113, 15.4.98, p.32).

The effect of the amendments is to permit the despatch of bone-in beef from premises approved under the Date Based Export Scheme (“DBES”) to the domestic market.

A Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared in accordance with section 65 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 and the Standing Orders of the National Assembly for Wales. Copies can be obtained from Animal Health Division 1, National Assembly for Wales, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.

(1)

S.I. 1999/2788.

(2)

1972 c. 68.

(3)

S.I. 1999/1103, amended by S.I. 1999/1554 and S.I. 2000/656.

(4)

1998 c. 38.