2019 No. 664

Exiting The European Union
Agriculture
Food

The Food and Feed Imports (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Made

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 M1.

In accordance with paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 7 to that Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

As required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety there has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation of these Regulations.

Annotations:
Marginal Citations

PART 1Introduction

Citation and commencementI11

These Regulations may be cited as the Food and Feed Imports (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and come into force on exit day.

InterpretationI25F62

In these Regulations—

Decision 2011/884/EU” means Commission Implementing Decision on emergency measures regarding unauthorised genetically modified rice in rice products originating from China and repealing Decision 2008/289/EC;

“Regulation 284/2011” means Commission Regulation (EU) No. 284/2011 laying down specific conditions and detailed procedures for the import of polyamide and melamine plastic kitchenware originating in or consigned from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China;

“Regulation 2015/949” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/949 approving the pre-export checks carried out on certain food by certain third countries as regards the presence of certain mycotoxins.

PART 2Amendment of subordinate legislation

Amendment of the Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (England) Regulations 2011I263

The Plastic Kitchenware (Conditions on Imports from China) (England) Regulations 2011 M2 are amended as follows.

Annotations:
Commencement Information
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Reg. 3 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

I2F74

In regulation 3(1), for “the European Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

I3F85

In regulation 8(3)(a)(i), for “the European Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

I46

Omit regulation 12(2).

PART 3Amendment of retained direct EU legislation

Amendment of Regulation 669/2009F17

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Amendment of Regulation 284/2011I2718

Regulation 284/2011 is amended as follows.

I519

In Article 2, for subparagraphs (c) and (d), substitute—

c

“competent authorities” means the competent authorities of F5Great Britain designated in accordance with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004;

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“first point of introduction” means the point of entry of a consignment into F5Great Britain;

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In Article 3—

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in paragraph 1, for “the Member States” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

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in paragraph 2, for “shall be drawn up in the official language, or in one of the official languages, of the Member State in which the consignment is imported”, substitute “ must be drawn up in English, or in English and Welsh ”.

I721

For Article 5, substitute—

Where the appropriate authority decides to designate specific first points of introduction for consignments originating in or consigned from China and Hong Kong, the appropriate authority and the Food Safety Authority must publish an up-to-date list of these points.

I822

For Article 6(2), substitute—

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If the laboratory analysis referred to in point (b) of paragraph 1 identifies non-compliance, the competent authorities must immediately inform the Food Safety Authority and the appropriate authority of the results.

I923

In Article 7, for the third paragraph, substitute—

Competent authorities must ensure that consignments remain under their continuous control and cannot be tampered with in any way pending the results of the checks mentioned in point (b) of Article 6(1).

I1024

In Article 9—

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in the heading, omit “to the Commission”

b

for paragraph 2, substitute—

2

Competent authorities must submit to the appropriate authority and the Food Safety Authority a report including the information referred to in paragraph 1, quarterly by the end of the month following each quarter.

I1125

After Article 10, omit “This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States in accordance with the Treaties.”.

I12F1126

In the Annex, in both places in which it occurs, for “the Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

Amendment of Regulation 884/2014F227

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Amendment of Regulation 2015/175F240

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Amendment of Regulation 2015/943F247

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Amendment of Regulation 2015/949I2850

Regulation 2015/949 is amended as follows.

I13F1051

In Article 1—

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in paragraph 1 for “the Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”;

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in paragraph 2, for “the Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

I1452

In Article 3, for “of the Member State on whose territory the splitting has taken place, shall”, substitute “ must ”.

I1553

In Article 4, for “Member States”, substitute “ competent authority ”.

I1654

After Article 6, omit “This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.”.

I1755

In Annex 2—

a

in the heading to the certificate, for “European Union”, substitute F12“ Great Britain ”;

b

in each place in which it occurs, for “EU”, substitute F13“ Great Britain ”;

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in box 2 of the certificate, for “the European Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

Amendment of Regulation 2017/186F356

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Amendment of Regulation 2018/1660F364

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Amendment of Decision 2011/884/EUI2974

Decision 2011/884/EU is amended as follows.

I1875

In Article 1(2), for “Member States”, substitute “ Competent authorities ”.

I1976

In Article 5(6), for “Union Law”, substitute “ retained EU law ”.

I2077

In Article 4—

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in paragraph 1, for “shall be drawn up in an official language of the Member State of import, or in another language that the competent authorities of that Member State have decided to accept”, substitute “ must be drawn up in English, or in English and Welsh. ”;

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in paragraph 2, for “shall be drawn up in an official language of the Member State of import, or in another language that the competent authorities of that Member State have decided to accept”, substitute “ must be drawn up in English, or in English and Welsh ”.

I2178

In the heading to Article 6, omit “to the Commission”.

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For Article 6, substitute—

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Competent authorities must prepare a report every 3 months, giving an account of all the results of all analytical tests carried out in the previous 3 months on consignments of the products referred to in Article 1. Those reports must be submitted to the appropriate authority and the Food Safety Authority during the month following each quarter.

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The report must include the following information—

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the number of consignments subjected to sampling for analysis;

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the results of the checks as provided for in Article 5;

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the number of consignments which have been rejected due to the absence of a health certificate or an analytical report.

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In Annex 2, in point 3—

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in the first paragraph, for “the Union in a Member State” substitute “ Great Britain in a ”;

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in the fourth paragraph, for “in the European Union Reference Laboratory for GMOs (EURL for GMOs) report”, substitute “ by the Food Safety Authority ”.

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In Annex 3, in the heading to the Health Certificate, for “the European Union” substitute “ Great Britain ”.

Amendment of Decision 2014/88/EUF482

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Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.

Stephen Hammond Minister of State, Department of Health and Social Care

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers in section 7 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16) in order to address failures of retained EU law to operate effectively and other deficiencies arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. In particular, the Regulations address the deficiency specified in section 8(2)(b) of that Act, namely the conferral of functions by retained EU law on, or in relation to, EU entities which no longer have functions in that respect under EU law in relation to the United Kingdom.

These Regulations make amendments to legislation relating to the safety of imported food and feed. Part 2 amends subordinate legislation in England. Part 3 amends retained direct EU legislation for the whole of the United Kingdom.

An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the public, private or voluntary sector is foreseen.