The Official Controls (Transitional Staging Period) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2017/625

3.  In Annex 6 (application of and derogations from this Regulation, and modifications to its application, in relation to territories subject to special transitional import arrangements) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products(1), in paragraph 13, in the text of Article 56A (prior notification of entry to Great Britain: transitional arrangements) as inserted for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 3 of Annex 6, for paragraph 5 substitute—

“5.   Paragraph 4 does not apply to relevant goods—

(a) to which Article 7 or Article 10 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/2122 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain categories of animals and goods exempted from official controls at border control posts, specific controls on passengers’ personal luggage and on small consignments of goods sent to natural persons which are not intended to be placed on the market(2) apply (as modified by Article 12A of that Regulation), or

(b) which are imported into Scotland from the Republic of Ireland where the condition in paragraph 6 is met.

6.   The condition is that the goods were produced in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland, and for these purposes goods are taken to be produced in Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland if they are processed there.”.

(1)

EUR 2017/625. Annex 6 was inserted by S.I. 2020/1481, and paragraph 13 was relevantly amended by S.I. 2021/429, S.I. 2021/809, S.S.I. 2021/342 and S.S.I. 2021/493.

(2)

EUR 2019/2122. Article 12A was inserted by S.I. 2020/1481.