This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.
Welsh Statutory Instruments
Food, Wales
Made
7 June 2022
Laid before Senedd Cymru
8 June 2022
Coming into force
29 June 2022
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).
1.—(1) The title of these Regulations is the Meat Preparations (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 29 June 2022.
2. In regulation 3(1) (transitory modification of Commission Decision 2000/572/EC) of the Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021( 2), for “30 June” substitute “31 December”.
Lesley Griffiths
Minister for Rural Affairs and North Wales, and Trefnydd, one of the Welsh Ministers
7 June 2022
(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 Meat Preparations (Amendment and Transitory Modification) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 ( S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1)) to extend the temporary suspension of the requirement for meat preparations to be deep frozen where they are imported into Wales from EEA member States, the Faroe Islands, Greenland or Switzerland, bringing it into line with the date appointed as the extended end date of the “transitional staging period”, defined in Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 (EUR 2017/625). This extension is until 31 December 2022.
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.
S.I. 2011/2379 (W. 252). Paragraph 11A is 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)).
S.I. 2021/1 (W. 1), amended by S.I. 2021/376 (W. 117), S.I. 2021/977 (W. 231)and S.I. 2021/1480 (W. 382).