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Welsh Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 1884 (W. 135)
ANIMALS, WALES
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-And-Mouth Disease) (No. 6) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2001
Made
5:20 p.m. on 11th May 2001
Coming into force
6 p.m. on 11th May 2001
The National Assembly for Wales, being designatedF1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972F2) in relation to the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section, and of all other powers enabling it in that behalf, makes the following Regulations:
F1By virtue of the European Communities (Designation) (No.3) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/2788).
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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease)(No. 6)(Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2001; they apply to Wales and come into force at 6 p.m. on 11th May 2001.
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2. At the end of regulation 4(3)(b)(ii) of the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease) (No. 6) (Wales) Regulations 2001 F3, insert “ or, in the case of meat from biungulates to which that Directive does not apply, the health mark provided for in Chapter III of Annex I to Council Directive 91/495/EEC (concerning public health and animal health problems affecting the production and placing on the market of rabbit meat and farmed game meat F4) ”.
F3S.I. 2001/1801 (W.130).
F4OJ No. L 268, 24.09.1991 p. 41 as last amended by Council Directive 1994/65/EC (OJ No. L 368, 31.12.1994 p. 10).
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998 F5)
John Marek
Deputy Presiding Officer, National Assembly for Wales
Signed at 5:20 p.m on the 11th May 2001
Explanatory Note
(This Note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend regulation 4(3)(b)(ii) of the Import and Export Restrictions (Foot-and-Mouth Disease)(No. 6) (Wales) Regulations 2001 which permit the export of fresh meat obtained from cutting plants under certain conditions. The amendment specifies an alternative health mark that must be used in respect of certain biungulates.