The Animal By-Products and Animal Health (Miscellaneous Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2023

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke and replace, with modified fees and minor amendments, the Animal By-Products and Pet Passport Fees (Scotland) Regulations 2018 and the Animal Health (Miscellaneous Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2018. They make provision for the fees payable to the Scottish Ministers in relation to activities conducted to verify compliance with rules on the prevention and minimisation of risks to human and animal health arising from animal by-products and derived products, and to verify compliance with rules on animal health requirements.

Regulation 3 sets out the circumstances in which the Scottish Ministers must refund to an applicant fees paid in respect of an application.

Regulation 4 and schedule 1 set out fees payable by operators of establishments and plants that are required to be approved for the purposes Regulation (EC) 1069/2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption.

Regulation 5 and schedule 2 set out fees payable in relation to control programmes under Regulation (EC) 2160/2003 on the control of salmonella and other specified food-borne zoonotic agents.

Regulation 6 and schedule 3 set out fees payable in relation to registrations and approvals for the purpose of the poultry health scheme and the export of poultry or hatching eggs to Northern Ireland, the EU and certain other third countries.

Regulation 7 and schedule 4 set out fees payable in relation to considering applications and carrying out routine examinations for the purposes of the Bovine Semen (Scotland) Regulations 2007.

Regulation 8 and schedule 5 set out fees payable in relation to licence applications, approvals and testing for the purposes of the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (Scotland) Regulations 1964 and the Artificial Insemination of Pigs (EEC) Regulations 1992.

Regulation 9 and schedule 6 set out fees payable in relation to approvals and inspections for the purposes of the Bovine Embryo (Collection, Production and Transfer) Regulations 1995.

Regulation 10 and schedule 7 set out fees payable in relation to the performance of official controls on imported consignments of live animals at border control posts.

Regulation 11 revokes the Animal By-Products and Pet Passport Fees (Scotland) Regulations 2018 and the Animal Health (Miscellaneous Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2018 (and provisions of instruments which amended those Regulations). Provision for fees for the delivery of pet passport identification documents is not re-enacted in these Regulations.

A Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen.