The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Statutory Instruments

2020 No. 1666

Exiting The European Union, England

Food, England

The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Made

11.10 p.m. on 31st December 2020

Laid before Parliament

4th January 2021

Coming into force

1st January 2021

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 M1 , makes the following Regulations.

Marginal Citations

M1 S.I. 2011/1197. These Regulations are amended by S.I. 2020/1462. Paragraph 11A of Schedule 2 is inserted by regulation 2(2) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481). There are other amending instruments but none are relevant.

Citation, application and commencement E+W

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

(2) They come into force on the day after the day on which IP completion day falls, immediately following the coming into force of regulation 40 of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 M2 and the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 M3 .

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 1 in force at 1.1.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M2 S.I. 2019/1462.

M3 S.I 2020/1481.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC E+W

2.  In Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries M4 (‘the Commission Decision’), after “meat preparations” insert “ from third countries ”.

Commencement Information

I2 Reg. 2 in force at 1.1.2021, see reg. 1(2)

Marginal Citations

M4 EUDN 2000/572/EC is amended by regulation 40 of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462). Article 1(1) is renumbered as such, and the definition of ‘third country’ is inserted, by regulation 40(2) of those Regulations.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC E+W

F1 3.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 3 omitted (28.4.2024) by virtue of The Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/540), regs. 1(2), 3

Gardiner of Kimble

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply in relation to England only and are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1197).

Regulation 2 amends Article 1 of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries in order to clarify that this Decision applies to imports into England from third countries as defined in Article 1(2) of that Decision.

Regulation 3 temporarily suspends the requirement for meat preparations imported into England from establishments situated in EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland to be deep frozen.