Citation, application and commencement

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

(2) They come into force on the day after the day on which IP completion day falls, immediately following the coming into force of regulation 40 of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020( 2) and the Official Controls (Animals, Feed and Food, Plant Health etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020( 3).

(3) These Regulations apply in relation to England only.

Amendment to Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

2.  In Article 1(1) of Commission Decision 2000/572/EClaying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries( 4) (‘the Commission Decision’), after “meat preparations” insert “from third countries”.

Transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC

3.—(1) Paragraph (2) of this regulation has effect during the period beginning with the day on which these Regulations come into force and ending at midnight on 31st March 2021.

(2) Article 3 of the Commission Decision applies as if—

(a) in paragraph 3, before “they”, there were inserted “other than in relation to imports of meat preparations originating from, or produced in, an establishment situated in a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements,”;

(b) at the end, there were inserted—

“4.   In this Article, “‘territory subject to special transitional import arrangements’” has the same meaning as in point (a) of the definition of “‘territory subject to special transitional import arrangements’” in paragraph 2 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products( 5) . ”.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply in relation to England only and are made in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 11A(1) of Schedule 2 to the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011 ( S.I. 2011/1197).

Regulation 2 amends Article 1 of Commission Decision 2000/572/EClaying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries in order to clarify that this Decision applies to imports into England from third countries as defined in Article 1(2) of that Decision.

Regulation 3 temporarily suspends the requirement for meat preparations imported into England from establishments situated in EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland to be deep frozen.