2024 No. 502 (W. 80)

Food, Wales

The Meat Preparations (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Made

Laid before Senedd Cymru

Coming into force

The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products (Wales) Regulations 20111.

Title, application and coming into force1

1

The title of these Regulations is the Meat Preparations (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024.

2

These Regulations apply in relation to Wales and come into force on 28 April 2024.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC2

In Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down animal and public health conditions and veterinary certification for imports of minced meat and meat preparations from third countries and repealing Decision 97/29/EC2 omit Article 3(3).

Consequential revocations3

The following are revoked—

a

regulation 3 of the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 20213,

b

the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 20214,

c

the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 20215,

d

regulation 3 of the Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 20216,

e

the Meat Preparations (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 20227,

f

regulation 3 of the Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 20228, and

g

the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 20249.

Huw Irranca-DaviesCabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend Commission Decision 2000/572/EC (“2000/572/EC”) which lays down animal and public health conditions and veterinary certification for the importation of meat preparations from third countries.

Regulation 2 amends 2000/572/EC to remove the import condition that meat preparations from third countries have been deep-frozen at the production plant or plants of origin.

Regulation 3 revokes, in consequence, other instruments or the provisions of other instruments which modified that import condition.

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.