The Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendments to Title 5

20.—(1) in the heading to Article 109, omit “and a single body for the MANCP”.

(2) In Article 109—

(a) for paragraph 1, substitute—

“1.   Competent authorities must ensure that official controls governed by this Regulation are performed on the basis of MANCP, the preparation and implementation of which is coordinated across the constituent territories of Great Britain.”.

(b) for paragraph 2, substitute—

“2.   The appropriate authorities must jointly, from time to time, designate a person (which may be a competent or an appropriate authority) to—

(a) coordinate the preparation of the MANCP across all competent authorities responsible for official controls;

(b) ensure that the MANCP is coherent;

(c) collect information on the implementation of the MANCP, review and update as necessary in accordance with Article 111(2).”.

(3) In Article 110(2)—

(a) in the opening words, for “the Member State concerned” substitute “Great Britain”;

(b) in point (k), for “the Member States” substitute “Great Britain”.

(4) In Article 111—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “Member States” substitute “The person designated from time to time in accordance with Article 109(2)”;

(b) in paragraph 2—

(i) in point (b), for “the Member State” substitute “Great Britain”;

(ii) in point (c), for “Member States’” substitute “the competent authorities’”;

(iii) omit point (d);

(iv) in point (f)—

(aa) after “outcome of” insert “any”;

(bb) for “a Member State” substitute “Great Britain”;

(c) omit paragraph 3.

(5) For Article 112, substitute—

“Article 112

Coordinated control programmes and information and data collection

With a view to conducting targeted assessment of the state of application of the rules referred to in Article 1(2) or establishing the prevalence of certain hazards across Great Britain, the appropriate authorities may make regulations concerning—

(a) the implementation of coordinated control plans of limited duration in the areas governed by the rules referred to in Article 1(2);

(b) the organisation, on an ad hoc basis, of the collecting of data and information in relation to the application of a specific set of the rules referred to in Article 1(2) or regarding the prevalence of certain hazards.”.

(6) In the heading to Article 113, omit “by the Member States”.

(7) In Article 113—

(a) in paragraph 1, for the words from “each” to “Commission” substitute “the person designated in accordance with Article 109(2) must prepare and make publicly available by publishing online”;

(b) omit paragraph 2.

(8) Omit Article 114.

(9) In Article 115—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “Member States” substitute “the competent authorities”;

(b) in paragraph 3, for “Member States” substitute “The competent authorities”;

(c) in paragraph 4—

(i) for the words from “Commission” to acts” substitute “appropriate authority may make regulations”;

(ii) omit the final subparagraph .