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PART 2U.K.Amendments to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2015/262

Amendments to Article 2U.K.

4.  In Article 2—

(a)for point (e)(i) (together with the following “or”) substitute—

“(i)entered or registered and eligible for entry in a studbook, in accordance with the rules laid down by Articles 4(3), 19(4), 30(9) and (10), 32, 33 and 34(1)(c) of, and Annex 1, Part 1 of Annex 2 and Annex 5 to—

and identified by means of an identification document issued by a competent authority, or”;

(b)in point (f)(i)—

(i)after “recognised”, insert “ [F1by the appropriate authority, by the zootechnical authority in Northern Ireland or] ”;

(ii)after “agency of”, insert “ the United Kingdom or of ”;

(c)in point (h), for the words from “either” to the end substitute “to the slaughterhouse for slaughter, either directly or through an approved marshalling centre, referred to in—

(i)Article 2(b) of Council Regulation 1/2005/EC, or

(ii)in relation to intended slaughter in a member State [F2or in Northern Ireland], Council Regulation 1/2005/EC, as that Regulation has effect in EU law, as amended from time to time M2;”;

(d)for point (i) substitute—

“(i)‘competent authority’ means—

(i)in [F3Great Britain], the appropriate authority or any other authority to which the competence of that authority has been conferred, including an official veterinarian;

(ii)in a member State, the central authority of the member State competent for the organisation of official controls or any other authority to which that competence has been conferred, including the competent authority referred to in point (h) of Article 2 of Directive 2009/156/EC, as amended from time to time (‘the EU Directive’) M3;

[F4(iii)in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs or any other authority to which the competence of that authority has been conferred, including the competent authority referred to in point (h) of the EU Directive;”];

(e)for point (j) substitute—

“(j)‘zootechnical authority’ means—

(i)in [F5Great Britain], the appropriate authority or any other authority to which the competence of that authority has been conferred, including any organisation or association which maintains or establishes a stud-book;

(ii)in a member State, the central authority competent for the implementation of Council Directive 90/427/EEC M4, as amended from time to time, or any authority to which that competence has been conferred, including the authorities referred to in Article 2(1) of Commission Decision 92/353/EEC, as that Decision has effect in EU law, as amended from time to time M5;

[F6(iii)in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs or any other authority to which the competence of that authority has been conferred, including any organisation or association which maintains or establishes a stud-book;”];

(f)for point (k) substitute—

“(k)‘temporary admission’ means the status of a registered horse coming from a third country and admitted into [F7Great Britain] for a period of days pursuant to—

(i)Article 3(1)(a) of Regulation 2018/659 on the conditions for the entry into the Union of live equidae and of semen, ova and embryos of equidae;

(ii)a Decision adopted in accordance with Article 19(b) of the EU Directive;”;

[F8(g)omit point (l);]

[F9(ga)omit point (p);]

(h)in point (r), after “designated by” insert “ a competent authority of the United Kingdom, ”;

[F10(i)in point (t)—

(i)after “means the”, insert “veterinary surgeon referred to in Schedule 4 to the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013 or, in Northern Ireland or a member State, the”;

(ii)after “Directive 2001/82/EC”, insert “as that Directive has effect in EU law, as amended from time to time”;]

(j)after point (t) , insert—

“(u)‘third country’ means a country other than [F11the British Islands or] a member State;

(v)‘constituent territory of the United Kingdom free of African horse sickness’ means a constituent territory of the United Kingdom in which—

(i)there has been no clinical, serological (in unvaccinated equidae) or epidemiological evidence of African horse sickness on the territory concerned in the previous 2 years, and

(ii)there have been no vaccinations against that disease during the previous 12 months;

(w)‘constituent territory of the United Kingdom’ means England, Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland;

[F12(wa)‘constituent territory of Great Britain’ means England, Wales or Scotland;]

(x)‘appropriate authority’ means—

(i)in relation to England, the Secretary of State;

(ii)in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

(iii)in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

F13(iv). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(y)‘the EU Regulation’ means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/262 M6, as that Regulation has effect in EU law, as amended from time to time.”.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 4 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1OJ No L 171, 29.6.2016, p 66.

M2OJ No L 3, 5.1.2005, p 1.

M3OJ No L 192, 23.7.2010, p 1, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1840 (OJ No L 280, 18.10.16, p 33).

M4OJ No L 224, 18.8.1990, p 5, as repealed by Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 (OJ No L 171, 29.6.2016, p 66.). References to Council Directive 90/427 (other than to Article 8(1), which continues to have effect by virtue of Article 64(3) of that Regulation) are to take effect as references to that Regulation by virtue of Article 64 of that Regulation.

M5OJ No L 192, 11.7.1992, p 63.

M6OJ No L 59, 3.3.2015, p 1.