The Charges for Residues Surveillance (Amendment and Revocation) (Wales) Regulations 2025

Made: 19 March 2025

Laid before Senedd Cymru: 21 March 2025

Coming into force: 27 March 2025

There has been consultation as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety[^f00004].

Title, application and coming into force

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• (1) The title of these Regulations is the Charges for Residues Surveillance (Amendment and Revocation) (Wales) Regulations 2025.

• (2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.

• (3) These Regulations come into force on 27 March 2025.

Amendment to the Charges for Residues Surveillance Regulations 2006

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• (1) The Charges for Residues Surveillance Regulations 2006[^f00005] are amended as follows.

• (2) In Schedule 1 (Residues Surveillance Charges)[^f00006], in the entry for ‘Soliped’, in column 2, for “0.04287” substitute “0.4287”.

Revocation

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The Charges for Residues Surveillance (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2025[^f00007] are revoked.

Signed

Huw Irranca-Davies — Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers — 19 March 2025

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations revoke and restate the provisions of the Charges for Residues Surveillance (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/260 (W. 54)) (“the 2025 Regulations”). The 2025 Regulations corrected a typographical error in the Schedule of fees to the Charges for Residues Surveillance Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/2285) (“the 2006 Regulations”).

Regulation 3 revokes the 2025 Regulations to address an error which is contained in the Welsh equivalent text.

Regulation 2 restates the amendments made by the 2025 Regulations.

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16. Sections 45(1) and (2) and 48(1) of the Food Safety Act 1990 were amended by paragraphs 7, 8 and 20 of Schedule 5 to the Food Standards Act 1999 (c. 28) (“the 1999 Act”).

[^f00002]: The functions, formerly exercisable by “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672) as read with section 40(3) of the 1999 Act. Those functions are now exercisable by the Welsh Ministers by virtue of section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c. 32).

[^f00003]: Section 48(4A) was inserted by paragraph 21 of Schedule 5 to the 1999 Act.

[^f00004]: EUR 2002/178, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

[^f00005]: S.I. 2006/2285, amended by S.I. 2007/2439, 2008/2999, 2009/2779, 2011/2945, S.I. 2024/967 (W. 162).

[^f00006]: Schedule 1 was substituted by S.I. 2024/967 (W. 162).

[^f00007]: S.I. 2025/260 (W. 54).