
PART 1
1 

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Animals, Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020.
(2) Parts 1 and 2 come into force on 29 December 2020.
(3) Part 3 comes into force immediately before IP completion day.
(4) Part 4 comes into force on IP completion day.
PART 2
2 

(1) The Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 42A (savings for declarations) in Part 4 (recovery of expenses) insert—“
42B. 
Fees or charges imposed by a competent authority on an operator pursuant to Article 79(2)(c) of Regulation 2017/625 must be paid by the operator on the written demand of the competent authority.”.
3 

(1) The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012 are amended as follows.
(2) After regulation 24 insert—“
24A. 
Schedule 2 (additional requirements in specific cases) has effect.”.
4 

(1) The Official Feed and Food Controls (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 4 (amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009)—
(a) in paragraph (2)(a), after “Decision 2007/275”. insert ““Directive 2004/41”,”,
(b) in paragraph (11), for “EU” substitute “Community”,
(c) in paragraph (13), after “to” insert “relevant”.
(3) In schedule 1, in the new schedule 1 (definitions of Community Legislation) inserted by that schedule—
(a) in the definition of “Decision 2007/275” for “97/781” substitute “97/78”,
(b) after the definition of “Decision 2007/275” insert ““Directive 2004/41” means Directive 2004/41/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council repealing certain Directives concerning food hygiene and health conditions for the production and placing on the market of certain products of animal origin intended for human consumption and amending Council Directives 89/662/EEC and 92/118/EEC and Council Decision 95/408/EC,”,
(c) in the definition of “Regulation 2017/625” omit “, 2015/1375”,
(d) in the definition of “Regulation 2019/1793” before “(EC) No. 178/2002” omit “20”,
(e) in the definition of “Regulation 2020/466” after “during” insert “certain”.
(4) In schedule 4, in the new schedule 6 (specified import provisions) inserted by that schedule, in the table omit the entries for—
(a) Article 2(1)(d) of Regulation 2019/2123,
(b) Article 3(1) of Regulation 2019/2124,
(c) Article 3(2) of Regulation 2019/2124,
(d) Article 5(d) of Regulation 2019/2126.
PART 3
5 

(1) The Food and Feed (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (amendment of the Official Feed and Food Controls (Scotland) Regulations 2009)—
(a) in paragraph (5)—
(i) in subparagraph (b) at the end insert “and”,
(ii) in subparagraph (c) for “, and” substitute “.”,
(iii) omit subparagraph (d),
(b) in paragraph (6)—
(i) in subparagraph (b) at the end insert “and”,
(ii) in subparagraph (c) for “, and” substitute “.”,
(iii) omit subparagraph (d),
(c) in paragraph (7) in the table in schedule 6 (specified import provisions) in column 2—
(i) omit subparagraph (b),
(ii) omit subparagraph (c),
(iii) omit subparagraph (d),
(iv) omit subparagraph (h),
(3) In regulation 5(2) (amendment of the Food and Feed Safety and Hygiene (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019), in the new paragraph (2) to be inserted by that paragraph omit “for paragraph 2”.
(4) In regulation 8(2) (amendment of the Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019), in the new paragraph (2) to be inserted by that paragraph—
(a) after “(interpretation)” insert “for”,
(b) before “(except in the expression “third country import”)” insert ““substitute “third country””.
PART 4
6 

(1) Commission Decision 2000/572/EC laying down the animal and public health and veterinary certification conditions for imports of meat preparations into the Community from third countries is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 1(1) (as numbered by regulation 40(2)(a) of the Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) after “meat preparations” insert “from a third country”,
(3) In Article 3, in the words before point 1, after “meat preparations” insert “from a third country”.
(4) After Article 4 insert—“
Article 4za
1. 
During the transitional period:
(a) the condition in point 3 of Article 3 does not apply where the production plant or plants of origin are in a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements,
(b) Article 4 does not apply to meat preparations which originate from a territory subject to special transitional import arrangements.
2. 
In paragraph 1:
 “the transitional period” means the period beginning on IP completion day and ending with 31 March 2021; and
 “territory subject to special transitional import arrangements” has the same meaning as in paragraph 2 of Annex 6 to Regulation (EU) 2017/625 in relation to relevant goods falling within Article 47(1)(b) of that Regulation.”.
MAIRI GOUGEON
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
At 1.45 p.m. on 21st December 2020