The Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024

Made: 13th March 2024

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 15th March 2024

Coming into force: 30th April 2024

The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 10A(1) of schedule 2 of the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012[^f00001] and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2024 and come into force on 30 April 2024.

Amendment of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries

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• (1) Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries[^f00002] is amended as follows.

• (2) In Article 3 (import conditions) omit point 3.

• (3) Omit Article 4za (transitional modification for imports from certain countries and territories).

Consequential Revocations

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The following are revoked—

• (a) regulation 6(4) of the Animals, Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020[^f00003],

• (b) the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2021[^f00004],

• (c) the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2021[^f00005],

• (d) regulation 2 of the Animal Products (Transitional Import Conditions) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2021[^f00006],

• (e) the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2022[^f00007],

• (f) regulation 3 of the Official Controls and Import Conditions (Transitional Periods) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2022[^f00008], and

• (g) the Meat Preparations (Import Conditions) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2023[^f00009].

Signed

JIM FAIRLIE — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 13th March 2024

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend Commission Decision 2000/572/EC which lays down animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations from third countries.

Regulation 2 amends Commission Decision 2000/572/EC to remove the import condition that meat preparations from third countries have been deep-frozen at the production plant or plants of origin.

Regulation 3 revokes, in consequence, other instruments or the provisions of other instruments which modified that import condition.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.S.I. 2012/177. Paragraph 10A of schedule 2 was inserted by S.S.I. 2021/138.

[^f00002]: EUDN 2000/572, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2020/455, 2021/161, 2021/288, 2021/432, 2022/193, 2022/371 and 2023/367. Article 3 (import conditions) was inserted by Commission Decision 2008/592/EC, made under Article 8(4) of Council Directive 2002/99/EC.

[^f00003]: S.S.I. 2020/455.

[^f00004]: S.S.I. 2021/161.

[^f00005]: S.S.I. 2021/288.

[^f00006]: S.S.I. 2021/432.

[^f00007]: S.S.I. 2022/193.

[^f00008]: S.S.I. 2022/371.

[^f00009]: S.S.I. 2023/367.