Explanatory Note
(This Note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Fish Health Regulations 1992 (“the principal Regulations”) so as to implement Council Directive 93/54/EEC (OJ No. L 175, 19.7.93, p. 34).
The Regulations:
(a)amend regulation 3 of the principal Regulations so that its provisions are without prejudice to certain provisions of the Diseases of Fish (Control) Regulations 1994 (regulation 3);
(b)provide for the amendment of regulation 7 of the principal Regulations so that the provisions shall not apply to tropical fish kept permanently in aquaria (regulation 4);
(c)insert a new regulation 9A in the principal Regulations which provides for quarantine of certain fish, molluscs and crustaceans from the wild (regulation 5);
(d)provide for the substitution of Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (regulation 7);
(e)provide for the substitution of Schedule 2 to the principal Regulations (regulation 8);
(f)provide for the substitution of Schedule 3 to the principal Regulations (regulation 9);
(g)provide for the amendment of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations (regulation 10);
(h)revise the definition of “Directive 91/67/EEC” (regulation 2(a));
(i)insert a definition of “Directive 93/53/EEC” (regulation 2(b));
(j)update the reference in regulation 16(1) of the principal Regulations to the Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations 1992(regulation 6).