Welsh Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 1 (W. 1)
Exiting The European Union, Wales
Food, Wales
The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021
Made 4 January 2021
Laid before Senedd Cymru 5 January 2021
Coming into force 6 January 2021

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 , make the following Regulations.
S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252). Paragraph 11A of Schedule 2 is inserted by regulation 2(2) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639 (W. 344)).

Title, application and commencement
1. (1) The title of these Regulations is the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 6 January 2021.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC
2. In Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (‘the Commission Decision’), after “meat preparations” insert “ from third countries ”.
EUDN 2000/572/EC is amended by regulation 40 of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462). Article 1(1) is renumbered as such, and the definition of ‘third country’ is inserted by regulation 40(2) of those Regulations.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC
3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reg. 3 revoked (28.4.2024) by The Meat Preparations (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/502), regs. 1(2), 3(a)
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Environment, Energy and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252)).
Regulation 2 amends Article 1 of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries in order to clarify that this Decision applies to imports into Wales from third countries as defined in Article 1(2) of that Decision.
Regulation 3 temporarily suspends the requirement for meat preparations imported into Wales from establishments situated in EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland to be deep frozen.
The Welsh Ministers' Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

Reg. 1 in force at 6.1.2021, see reg. 1(2)
Reg. 2 in force at 6.1.2021, see reg. 1(2)