The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 977 (W. 231)

Exiting The European Union, Wales

Food, Wales

The Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021

Made

2 September 2021

Laid before Senedd Cymru

3 September 2021

Coming into force

29 September 2021

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011(1), make the following Regulations.

Title and commencement

1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021.

(2) These Regulations come into force on 29 September 2021.

Amendment to the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021

2.  In regulation 3(1) of the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021(2), for “30 September 2021” substitute “31 December 2021”.

Lesley Griffiths

Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers

2 September 2021

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252)).

Regulation 2 amends the date in regulation 3(1) of the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1)) in order to extend the effect of those Regulations, which, in relation to imports originating from or produced in, establishments situated in EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland, temporarily suspend the requirement for meat preparations imported into Wales to be deep frozen. That requirement is imposed by Article 3(3) of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC of 8 September 2000 laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries (EUDN 2000/572). The extension of the suspension is until midnight on 31 December 2021. The date had previously been amended by the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/376 (W. 117)).

The Welsh Ministers’ Code of Practice on the carrying out of Regulatory Impact Assessments was considered in relation to these Regulations. As a result, it was not considered necessary to carry out a regulatory impact assessment as to the likely costs and benefits of complying with these Regulations.

(1)

S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252). Paragraph 11A of Schedule 2 is inserted by regulation 2(2) of the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health Fees etc.) (Wales) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1639 (W. 344)).

(2)

S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1), as amended by S.I. 2021/376 (W. 117).