Animal Health and Welfare (Export) Regulations 2018 (S.I. No. 145 of 2018)

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS. S.I. No. 145 of 2018 ———————— ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE (EXPORT) REGULATIONS 2018 2 [145] S.I. No. 145 of 2018 ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE (EXPORT) REGULATIONS 2018 I, MICHAEL CREED, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 63 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013), hereby make the following regulations: 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Animal Health and Welfare (Export) Regulations 2018. 2. In these Regulations “Animal Identification and Movement system” means the computerised data base referred to in Regulation 3(3)(b) of the European Communities (Identification of Bovines) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 77 of 2009); “food business operator” means a food business operator approved in accord ance with regulation 4 of the European Communities (Food and Feed Hygiene) Regulations 2009 (S.I. No. 432 of 2009). 3. These Regulations apply to bovines. 4. The Minister may provide a food business operator access to data held on the Animal Identification and Movement system to verify the disease status and eligibility of an animal or animal product destined for the export market. 5. A Food Business Operator shall not exportto a third countryan animalor animalproduct where the export conditions require the animalor animal prod ucttomeet certain criteriain relation to notifiable diseases,without first verifying thattheanimalor animal productis eligible for exporton the Animal Identification and Movement system. 6. Regulation 5 is a penal provision to which section 63(5)(a) of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013) applies. GIVEN under my Official Seal, 26 April 2018. MICHAEL CREED, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in “Iris Oifigiúil” of 4th May, 2018. BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH ARNA FHOILSIÚ AG OIFIG AN tSOLÁTHAIR Le ceannach díreach ó FOILSEACHÁIN RIALTAIS, 52 FAICHE STIABHNA, BAILE ÁTHA CLIATH 2 (Teil: 01 - 6476834 nó 1890 213434; Fax: 01 - 6476843) nó trí aon díoltóir leabhar. —————— DUBLIN PUBLISHED BY THE STATIONERY OFFICE To be purchased from GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, 52 ST. STEPHEN'S GREEN, DUBLIN 2. (Tel: 01 - 6476834 or 1890 213434; Fax: 01 - 6476843) or through any bookseller. —————— €1.27 Wt. (B33448). 285. 5/18. Essentra. Gr 30-15.