Statutory Instruments

2018 No. 1164

Agriculture, England

The Carcase Classification and Price Reporting (England) Regulations 2018

Made

6th November 2018

Laid before Parliament

9th November 2018

Coming into force

3rd December 2018

The Secretary of State makes these Regulations under section 2(2) of, and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972(1).

The Secretary of State is a Minister designated(2) for the purposes of section 2(2) of that Act in relation to the common agricultural policy.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Secretary of State that it is expedient for references in these Regulations to the following EU instruments to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time—

(a)

Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products(3);

(b)

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1182 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcases and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcases and live animals(4); and

(c)

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1184 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Union scales for the classification of beef, pig and sheep carcases and as regards the reporting of market prices of certain categories of carcases and live animals(5).

(1)

1972 c. 68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and by Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). The function of the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of making regulations under section 2(2) was transferred to the Secretary of State by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(2)

S.I. 1972/1811, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(3)

OJ No L347, 20.12.2013, p 671, as last amended by Regulation (EU) No 2017/2393 (OJ No L350, 29.12.2017, p15).

(4)

OJ No L171, 4.7.2017, p 74.

(5)

OJ No L171, 4.7.2017, p 103.