The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Approved by Senedd Cymru

Made14 July 2021

Laid before Senedd Cymru16 July 2021

Coming into force30 July 2021

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 and paragraph 21 of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 20181.

The Welsh Ministers are of the opinion that, by reason of urgency, it is necessary to make these Regulations without a draft of the instrument being laid before, and approved by a resolution of, Senedd Cymru2.

Title and commencement1

1

The title of these Regulations is the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2021.

2

These Regulations come into force on 30 July 2021.

The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 20112

1

The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 20113 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 2(1), at the appropriate place insert—

“the transitional staging period” (“ycyfnod graddoli trosiannol”) has the meaning given in Annex 6 to the Official Controls Regulation4.

3

In regulation 26(3), for “day on 31 July 2021” substitute “transitional staging period”.

4

In Schedule 5—

a

in paragraph 5(3), for “31 July 2021” substitute “1 October 2021”;

b

in paragraph 6(1)(c)—

i

for “31 July 2021” substitute “1 October 2021”;

ii

after “products of animal origin” insert “or animal by-products”.

Lesley GriffithsMinister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers14 July 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union.

These Regulations amend deficiencies in the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2379) (W. 252) (“the 2011 Regulations”) as a consequence of EU Exit. Regulation 2 amends the 2011 Regulations so that Schedule 5 has effect and remains in force until the end of the transitional staging period (defined in Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products (EUR 2017/625)), and to change the date from which transitional prior notification requirements for products of animal origin apply from 31 July 2021 to 1 October 2021.

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.