The Food (Figs, Hazelnuts and Pistachios from Turkey) (Emergency Control) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which apply to Wales only, revoke and re-enact with changes the Food (Figs, Hazelnuts and Pistachios from Turkey) (Emergency Control) (Wales) Regulations 2002. The revocation is effected by regulation 7.

The Regulations implement Commission Decision 2002/80/EC imposing special conditions on the import of figs, hazelnuts and pistachios and certain products derived thereof originating in or consigned from, Turkey (OJ No. L34, 5.2.2002, p.26) as amended by Commission Decision 2002/233/EC (OJ No. L78, 21.3.2002, p.14) and Commission Decision 2002/679/EC (OJ No. L229, 27.8.2002, p.37). The categories of products which are subject to those conditions are specified in Article 1.1 of Commission Decision 2002/80/EC as so amended.

The Regulations—

(a) prohibit the importation of any “controlled Turkish products” (defined in regulation 2(1)) into Wales;

(b) prohibit the transport into Wales, from any other part of the United Kingdom, any controlled Turkish products other than controlled Turkish products which have lawfully been imported into the United Kingdom through a point of entry listed in Annex II to the Commission Decision. (regulation 3(2) and (3)).

(Note: There are no specified ports of entry for the United Kingdom located in Wales).

(c) specify the enforcement authorities and their duties under the Regulations (regulation 4);

(d) apply with modifications certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 for the purposes of the Regulations and provide for sampling and analysis (regulation 5); and

(e) provide for re-dispatch or destruction of illegal imports of controlled Turkish products (regulation 6).

No regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations.

These Regulations have been made in English only as, given the urgency with which they have had to be made, it was not reasonably practicable in the time available to produce a Welsh text.