1. The title of these Regulations is the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011. They apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 19 October 2011.
2.—(1) In these Regulations—
“animal” (“anifail”) means an animal of any kind, including a bird, fish or invertebrate;
“enforcement authority” (“awdurdod gorfodi”) has the meaning given in regulation 31;
“genetic material” (“deunydd genetig”) means hatching eggs and animal semen, ova or embryos;
“local authority” (“awdurdod lleol”) means in relation to an area, the county or county borough council for that area;
“port health authority” (“awdurdod iechyd porthladd”) means in relation to any port health district constituted by order under section 2(3) of the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984, a port health authority for that district constituted by order under section 2(4) of that Act;
“product” (“cynnyrch”) means a product listed in Annex I to Commission Decision 2007/275/EC M1 (concerning lists of animals and products to be subject to controls at border inspection posts under Council Directives 91/496/EEC M2 and 97/78/EC M3) [F1, as last amended by Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1196] and, in addition, hay and straw.
(2) All references in Schedule 1 to European Union instruments are references to those instruments as amended from time to time.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in reg. 2(1) inserted (28.3.2019) by The Rural Affairs, Environment, Fisheries and Food (Miscellaneous Amendments and Revocations) (Wales) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/463), regs. 1(3), 12(2)
Marginal Citations
M1OJ No L 076, 13.3.2007, p. 56.
M2OJ No L268, 24.9.1991, p. 56 as last amended by Council Directive 2008/73/EC (OJ No L 219, 14.8.2008, p.40).
M3OJ No. L 116, 4.5.2007, p. 9.
[F23.—(1) These Regulations do not apply in relation to pet animals where—
(a)the movement is a non-commercial movement, and
(b)in the case of cats, dogs and ferrets—
(i)the pet animal is accompanying the owner or authorised person, or
(ii)where more than five pet animals are accompanying the owner or authorised person, the conditions set out in Article 5(2) of the Pets Regulation are fulfilled.
(2) In this regulation—
“authorised person”, “non-commercial movement” and “owner” have the meanings given by Article 3 of the Pets Regulation;
“the Pets Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 576/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the non-commercial movement of pet animals and repealing Regulation (EC) No 998/2003;
“pet animal” means an animal of a species listed in Annex I to the Pets Regulation;
“accompanying” has the same meaning as in the Pets Regulation.]
Textual Amendments
F2Reg. 3 substituted (29.12.2014) by The Non-Commercial Movement of Pet Animals (Amendment) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3158), art. 1(3), Sch. para. 15
4. Trade with Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland under any agreement between those countries and the European Union is treated as trade between member States for the purposes of these Regulations.