The Approved Country Lists (Animals and Animal Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Made: at 11.00 a.m. on 16th December 2021

Laid before Parliament: at 2.30 p.m. on 16th December 2021

Coming into force: 17th December 2021

An assessment of the risk to animal or public health in the United Kingdom arising in respect of live poultry, hatching eggs (including specified pathogen-free eggs), day-old chicks and poultry products has been approved by the Secretary of State and the appropriate authority, taking into account the animal health criteria, the public health criteria and the matters specified in regulation 7(2). This has been carried out in accordance with regulation 7(1), and the Secretary of State is satisfied that the amendments made by these Regulations are necessary or appropriate in the light of that assessment.

Citation and commencement

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• (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Approved Country Lists (Animals and Animal Products) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021.

• (2) They come into force on 17th December 2021.

Amendments to Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008

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• (1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements[^f00003] is amended as follows.

• (2) In Annex 1, Part 1, in the table—

• (a) in the row for Australia, in relation to the rows corresponding to the entries “BPP, DOC, HEP, SRP, LT20”, “BPR”, “DOR”, “HER”, “POU” and “RAT”, in the eighth column of the table (the column numbered “6B” with the heading “opening date”), insert “26.2.2021”;

• (b) in the row for Ukraine—

• (i) in the row corresponding to the entry “UA-2.4”—

• (aa) in the row corresponding to the entry “WGM”, in the eighth column of the table, insert “28.5.2021”;

• (bb) in the row corresponding to the entry “POU, RAT”, in the eighth column of the table, insert “28.5.2021”;

• (ii) below the row corresponding to the entry “UA-2.4”, in the second to eighth columns of the table, insert—

Signed

Benyon of Englefield — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — At 11.00 a.m. on 16th December 2021

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations are made in exercise of powers conferred by the Trade in Animals and Animal Products (Legislative Functions) and Veterinary Surgeons (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1225), in particular, regulation 7.

They amend Annex 1 to Commission Regulation (EC) No 798/2008 laying down a list of third countries, territories, zones or compartments from which poultry and poultry products may be imported into and transit through the Community and the veterinary certification requirements to insert a date (referred to in that Regulation as an “opening date”). The effect of the opening date is that exports of poultry and poultry products from Australia produced after that date may be imported into Great Britain. The “opening date” is therefore a final date for the purposes of ending the application of provisions imposing restrictions on imports into Great Britain.

They also make additions for the entries to Ukraine in respect of restrictions on exports of poultry meat, the meat of farmed ratites and wild game-bird meat.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 2019/1225, which is amended by S.I. 2020/1462.

[^f00002]: Defined in regulation 2(1) of S.I. 2019/1225.

[^f00003]: EUR 2008/798, which is amended by S.I. 2020/1462 and S.I. 2021/211.