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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 782
5.—(1) The Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) Regulations 1995(1) are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “intra-Area trade” substitute—
““national trade” means trade within Great Britain;”.
(3) Omit regulation 5.
(4) In regulation 6—
(a)in the heading, for “purposes other than intra-Area” substitute “national”;
(b)for “other than for the purposes of intra-Area” substitute “for national”.
(5) In regulation 9, omit “5,”.
(6) Omit regulation 10.
(7) In regulation 11—
(a)in the heading, for “not intended for intra-Area” substitute “for national”;
(b)in paragraph (1)—
(i)in the words before sub-paragraph (a), for “not intended for intra-Area” substitute “for national”;
(ii)in sub-paragraph (a), omit “regulation 5 or”;
(c)in paragraph (2), in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit “Schedule 4 or”;
(d)in paragraph (3), omit the words from “provided” to the end.
(8) In regulation 12(c), omit the words from “in accordance” to “intra-Area trade,”.
(9) Omit regulations 13 to 15.
(10) In regulation 16—
(a)in the heading, for “not intended for use in intra-Area” substitute “for national”;
(b)in paragraph (1), for “not intended for intra-Area” substitute “for national”.
(11) In regulation 17, in the heading, for “use in intra-Area” substitute “national”.
(12) In regulation 18—
(a)in the heading, for “not intended for intra-Area” substitute “for national”;
(b)for “use other than in inter-Area” substitute “national”;
(c)omit “regulation 13 or”.
(13) Omit regulation 20(2).
(14) Omit Schedule 1.
(15) In Schedule 2—
(a)in the heading, for “purposes other than for intra-Area” substitute “national”;
(b)in paragraph 3—
(i)in the words before sub-paragraph (a), omit “either”;
(ii)for sub-paragraph (a) (together with the following “or”) substitute—
“(a)a permanent laboratory facility where the team has at its disposal—
(i)a work surface, a microscope and cryogenic equipment,
(ii)a room where bovine embryos can be manipulated, which is adjacent to but physically separate from the area used to handle the donor animals during collection,
(iii)a room or area equipped for cleansing and sterilising instruments and with equipment used in bovine embryo collection and manipulation, and
(iv)where micromanipulation of the bovine embryo which involves penetration of the zona pellucida is to be carried out, suitable laminar-flow facilities,”;
(iii)for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—
“(b)a mobile laboratory facility where the team has at its disposal—
(i)a work surface, a microscope and cryogenic equipment, and
(ii)a specially equipped part of the vehicle consisting of two separate sections, one for the examination and manipulation of bovine embryos which is a clean section, and the other for accommodating equipment and materials used in contact with the donor animals,”.
(16) In Schedule 4—
(a)in the heading—
(i)for “the purposes of intra-Area” substitute “national”;
(ii)in the shoulder heading, for “Regulations 10 and 11” substitute “Regulation 11”;
(b)in paragraph (1), for “intra-Area” substitute “national”.
(17) In Schedule 5—
(a)in the heading—
(i)omit “”10 or”;
(ii)in the shoulder heading, for “Regulations 10 and 12” substitute “Regulation 12”;
(b)in paragraph (1), omit “10 or”.
(18) In Schedule 6, in the heading, for “not intended for intra-Area” substitute “for national”.
(19) In Schedule 7—
(a)for paragraph 2 substitute—
“2. Bovine embryos must be produced by an approved production team and must not come into contact with any other consignment of bovine embryos not meeting the requirements of these Regulations.”;
(b)in paragraph (13), in the first sentence, for “intra-Area” substitute “national”.
S.I. 1995/2478, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.
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