The Rural Affairs and Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2019 No. 1408 (W. 249)

Environmental Protection, Wales

Food, Wales

The Rural Affairs and Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019

Made

28 October 2019

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales

30 October 2019

Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)

The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union(2), and the prevention and remedy of environmental damage(3).

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

There has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of regulations 3 and 4 as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety(4).

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.

(1)

1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). It is prospectively repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) from exit day (see section 20 of that Act).

(2)

S.I. 2010/2690.

(3)

S.I. 2014/1890.

(4)

OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, last amended by Regulation (EU) No 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241).