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These Regulations may be cited as the Official Controls (Transitional Staging Period) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2021 and come into force on 1 October 2021.
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(1) Regulation (EU) 2017/625 of the European Parliament and of the Council on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products is amended as follows.
(2) In Annex 6 (application of and derogations from, and modifications to the Regulation in relation to territories subject to special transitional import arrangements), in paragraph 13, in the text of Article 56A as inserted for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 3 of Annex 6—
(a) in paragraph 4 for “the relevant date” substitute “1st January 2022”, and
(b) omit paragraph 5.
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(1) The Trade in Animals and Related Products (Scotland) Regulations 2012 are amended as follows.
(2) In schedule 5 (application of, derogations from, and modifications to Part 3 on importation from a third country, in relation to certain territories subject to transitional import arrangements)—
(a) in paragraph 4(3) for “1st October 2021” substitute “1st January 2022”, and
(b) in paragraph 5(3) for “1st October 2021” substitute “1st January 2022”.
MAIRI GOUGEON
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrews’s House,
Edinburgh
At 9.15 a.m. on 28th September 2021