Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 1120 of 2018)

S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S 2018 No. 1120 EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION, ENGLAND ANIMALS, ENGLAND The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 Sift requirements satisfied 23rd October 2018 Made - - - - 29th October 2018 Laid before Parliament 30th October 2018 Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1 The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018(a), makes the following Regulations. The requirements of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to that Act (relating to the appropriate Parliamentary procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied. Citation, commencement, extent and application 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 and come into force on exit day. (2) These Regulations extend to England and Wales but apply in England only. Amendment to the Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013 2. In regulation 10 of the Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (England) Regulations 2013(b) omit paragraph (6). Amendment to the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018 3.—(1) The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018(c) are amended as follows. (2) In Schedule 2, for paragraph 9(2) substitute— (a) 2018 c. 16. (b) S.I. 2013/2952, as amended by S.I. 2013/2996 and 2015/1980. (c) S.I. 2018/731. 2 £4.90 UK201810291006 11/2018 19585 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2018/1120 “(2) A laboratory approved under corresponding legislation elsewhere in the United Kingdom is treated as an approved testing laboratory.”. (3) In Schedule 7— (a) in paragraph 1(1), omit “placed on the member State”; (b) in paragraph 3(3), omit paragraph (c); (c) in paragraph 4(3)(b)— (i) at the end of sub-paragraph (i), insert “or”; (ii) at the end of sub-paragraph (ii), for “, or” substitute “.”; (iii) omit sub-paragraph (iii). (4) In Schedule 8, in paragraphs 1 and 3 omit “to third countries” in both places it occurs. Gardiner of Kimble Parliamentary Under Secretary of State 29th October 2018 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of these Regulations) These Regulations are made in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c.16) in order to address failures of retained direct EU legislation to operate effectively and other deficiencies (in particular paragraphs (a), (d) and (g) of section 8(2)) arising from the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. These Regulations amend domestic legislation that provides enforcement of— (a) the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, (b) the Animal By-Product Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009 laying down health rules as regards animal by-products and derived products not intended for human consumption, and (c) Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011 implementing Regulation (EC) No 1069/2009. An impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. © Crown copyright 2018 Printed and published in the UK by The Stationery Office Limited under the authority and superintendence of Jeff James, Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office and Queen’s Printer of Acts of Parliament.