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

Coming into force

1st January 2021

Laid before Parliament

4th 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(1), makes the following Regulations.

Citation, application and commencement

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(2) and the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020(3).

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

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

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(4) (‘the Commission Decision’), after “meat preparations” insert “from third countries”.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

3.—(1) Paragraph (2) of this regulation has effect during the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending at midnight on 31st March 2021.

(2) Article 3 of the Commission Decision applies as if—

(a) in paragraph 3, before “they”, there were inserted “other than in relation to imports of meat preparations originating from, or produced in, an establishment situated in a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements,”;

(b) at the end, there were inserted—

“4.   In this Article, “‘territory subject to special transitional import arrangements’” has the same meaning as in point (a) of the definition of “‘territory subject to special transitional import arrangements’” in paragraph 2 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products(5).”.

Gardiner of Kimble

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

11.10 p.m. on 31st December 2020

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.

(1)

S.I. 2011/1197. These Regulations are amended by S.I. 2020/1631. 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.

(2)

S.I. 2020/1462.

(3)

S.I 2020/1481.

(4)

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.

(5)

Annex 6 Regulation (EU) 2017/625 was inserted by regulation 29(4) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1481).