PART 2Amendment of retained direct EU legislation

Commission Regulation (EU) No 517/20118

1

Commission Regulation (EU) No 517/2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards a Union target for the reduction of the prevalence of certain Salmonella serotypes in laying hens of Gallus gallus is amended as follows.

2

In Article 1—

a

omit “Union” in each place it occurs;

b

in paragraph 1—

i

in the first subparagraph, in point (b), for the words from “for” to “laying hens”, in the second place it occurs, substitute “if there are fewer than 50 flocks of adult laying hens in the constituent territory”;

ii

in the second subparagraph, omit the second sentence.

3

After Article 1 insert—

Article 1ADefinition of constituent territory

In this Regulation, ‘constituent territory’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.

4

Omit Articles 2 and 6.

5

After Article 6, omit the words from “This Regulation” to “Member States”.

6

In the Annex—

a

in the heading, omit “Union”;

b

in point 1, omit “national”;

c

in point 2.1(c), omit the words from “any case” to “or”;

d

in point 2.2.2, in the third paragraph, omit “Union”;

e

in point 3.2, for the first paragraph substitute—

The detection of Salmonella must be carried out according to ISO 6579-1, as it has effect for the time being.

f

in point 3.4, for the words from “in accordance with” to the end, substitute “in accordance with ISO 16140-2, as it has effect for the time being”;

g

in point 3.5, for “Article 2 of Commission Decision 2007/407/EC”, substitute “Commission Implementing Decision 2013/652/EC”;

h

in point 4.1, in the words before point (a), omit “Union”;

i

omit point 4.3.