These Regulations amend the Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (“the Principal Regulations”) implementing Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 2015/1375 (“the Codification Regulation”) which codifies certain provisions laying down specific rules on official controls for Trichinella in meat.

Regulation 3 amends various definitions in the Principal Regulations to omit references to repealed EU Regulation and insert references to the Codification Regulation.

Regulation 2(5) of the Principal Regulations provides that any reference to an EU instrument defined in schedule 1 of those Regulations is ambulatory, i.e. it is a reference to that instrument as any Annex to it is amended from time to time.

No business and regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations as no impact upon business, charities or voluntary bodies is foreseen.