The Meat Preparations (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2024 No. 502 (W. 80)

Food, Wales

The Meat Preparations (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024

Made

11 April 2024

Laid before Senedd Cymru

12 April 2024

Coming into force

28 April 2024

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 2011(1).

Title, application and coming into force

1.—(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/EC

2.  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/EC(2) omit Article 3(3).

Consequential revocations

3.  The following are revoked—

(a) regulation 3 of the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021(3),

(b) the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021(4),

(c) the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2021(5),

(d) regulation 3 of the Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods and Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021(6),

(e) the Meat Preparations (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022(7),

(f) regulation 3 of the Official Controls (Extension of Transitional Periods) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2022(8), and

(g) the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024(9).

Huw Irranca-Davies

Cabinet Secretary for Climate Change and Rural Affairs, one of the Welsh Ministers

11 April 2024

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.

(1)

S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252). Paragraph 11A was inserted into Schedule 2 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) and enables the Welsh Ministers to amend, modify or revoke any assimilated direct minor legislation made under Article 8(4) of Council Directive 2002/99/EC laying down the animal health rules governing the production, processing, distribution and introduction of products of animal origin for human consumption (OJ No L 18, 23.1.2003, p. 11) (“the 2002 Directive”). S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1), which is amended by regulation 3 of this instrument, modifies 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 (EUDN 2000/572). Commission Decision 2000/572/EC (OJ No L 240, 23.9.2000, p. 19) was adopted under Council Directive 94/65/EC laying down the requirements for the production and placing on the market of minced meat and meat preparations (OJ No L 368, 31.12.1994, p. 10) (“the 1994 Directive”), but is to be construed as being made under the 2002 Directive by virtue of provision in Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 157, 30.4.2004, p. 33) (“the 2004 Directive”). The 2004 Directive, which repealed the 1994 Directive, provided in Article 4 that references to certain Directives, including the 1994 Directive, should be construed as being made, as the context demands, to the 2002 Directive; accordingly, that rule of construction has the effect that the power in paragraph 11A of Schedule 2 to S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252) to modify retained direct minor EU legislation made under Article 8(4) of the 2002 Directive extends to the modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC.

(2)

EUDN 2000/572; amended by S.I. 2020/1462 and 2021/1 (W. 1).

(3)

S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1), amended by S.I. 2021/376 (W. 117), 2021/977 (W. 231), 2021/1480 (W. 382), 2022/618 (W. 140), 2022/1317 (W. 266) and 2024/17 (W. 6).

(4)

S.I. 2021/376 (W. 117).

(5)

S.I. 2021/977 (W. 231).

(6)

S.I. 2021/1480 (W. 382).

(7)

S.I. 2022/618 (W. 140).

(8)

S.I. 2022/1317 (W. 266).

(9)

S.I. 2024/17 (W. 6).