Amendment of the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 20002.

(1)

The Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) (England and Wales) Regulations 20003 are amended in relation to Wales in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In regulation 12—

(a)

in paragraph (2) after the words “Council Directive 64/432/EEC” there shall be added the words “and is satisfied that the operator of the assembly centre has agreed to comply with the requirements for the operation of the centre which an inspector has specified in an operational agreement as being the requirements the inspector believes are necessary to ensure the centre is capable of being operated in accordance with the second indent of paragraph 3(2) of Council Directive 90/425/EEC”; and

(b)

in paragraph (3), after the words “cattle or pigs” there shall be inserted the words “or sheep or goats”.

(3)

In Schedule 3, Part I, paragraph 9, after the words “Commission Decision 97/315/EC (OJ No. L137, 28.5.97, p. 20);” there shall be inserted the following—

“Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (OJ No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (OJ No. L123, 04/05/2001, p.26), 2001/378/EC (OJ No. L132, 15/05/2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (OJ No. L138, 22/05/2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (OJ No. L149, 02/06/2001, p. 40), 2001/448/EC (OJ No. L176, 29/06/2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (OJ No. L261, 29/09/2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (OJ No. L335, 19.12.2001, p. 21) and 2002/153/EC (OJ No. L50, 21.2.2002, p. 98);”.

(4)

In Schedule 3, Part I after paragraph 15 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“Animals of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease

16.

Commission Decision 2001/327/EC (OJ No. L115, 25.4.2001, p. 12), as amended by Decisions 2001/349/EC (OJ No. L123, 04/05/2001, p.26), 2001/378/EC (OJ No. L132, 15/05/2001, p. 31), 2001/394/EC (OJ No. L138, 22/05/2001, p. 36), 2001/416/EC (OJ No. L149, 02/06/2001, p. 40), 2001/448/EC (OJ No. L176, 29/06/2001, p. 75), 2001/709/EC (OJ No. L261, 29/09/2001, p. 69), 2001/904/EC (OJ No. L335, 19.12.2001, p. 21) and 2002/153/EC (OJ No. L50, 21.2.2002, p. 98).

Relevant provisions: article 2a.”.