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

Made11.10 p.m. on 31st December 2020

Laid before Parliament4th January 2021

Coming into force1st 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.

Annotations:

Marginal Citations

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 commencementI11

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.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/ECI22

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 ”.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/ECF13

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Gardiner of Kimble Parliamentary Under Secretary of State Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

(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.