
2024 No. 119 (W. 27)
Agriculture, Wales
Food, Wales
The Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Made 31 January 2024
Laid before Senedd Cymru 2 February 2024
Coming into force 7 March 2024

The Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by—
• Articles 34(6), 47(2)(b), 54(4)(a) and (b) and 144(6)(a) of 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;
• Articles 53(1)(b) and 57a(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.

There has been consultation as required by Article 144(7) of Regulation (EU) 2017/625 and as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002.
Title, extent, application and coming into force
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations—
(a) extend to England and Wales;
(b) apply in relation to Wales;
(c) come into force on 7 March 2024.
Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
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(1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793 on the temporary increase of official controls and emergency measures governing the entry into the Union of certain goods from certain third countries is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 3 (sampling and analyses)—
(a) after paragraph (e) insert—“
(ea) for food listed in Annex 2 due to the risk of presence of Listeria, the sampling and the analyses for the control of Listeria must be performed in accordance with the sampling procedures and the analytical reference methods laid down in Annex 3a;”
(b) in paragraph (f), for “and (e)” substitute “, (e) and (ea)”.
(3) In Article 10 (results of sampling and analyses performed by the competent authorities of the third country), in paragraph (2), after sub-paragraph (d) insert—“
(e) the absence of Listeria in 25 g, for consignments of food listed in Annex 2 due to risk of microbiological contamination by Listeria.”
(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(6) After Annex 3, insert the Annex 3a contained in Schedule 3 to these Regulations.
Amendment of the Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2022
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In the Official Controls (Import of High-Risk Food and Feed of Non-Animal Origin) (Amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793) (Wales) Regulations 2022—
(a) in regulation 2 (amendment of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793), omit paragraphs (2) and (3);
(b) omit Schedules 1 and 2.
Lynne Neagle
Deputy Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, under the authority of the Minister for Health and Social Services, one of the Welsh Ministers
31 January 2024
SCHEDULE 1
Annex to be substituted for Annex 1 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
Regulation 2(4)

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SCHEDULE 2
Annex to be substituted for Annex 2 to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
Regulation 2(5)

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SCHEDULE 3
Annex 3a to be inserted into Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1793
Regulation 2(6)
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ANNEX 3a
Sampling procedure and analytical reference method for the control of presence of Listeria in food

Sampling procedure and analytical reference method for the control of presence of Listeria in food, referred to in Article 3(ea)
Analytical reference method Weight of consignment Number of sample units (n) Sampling procedures Analytical result required for each sample unit of the same consignment
BS EN ISO 11290-1:2017 Any weight 5 n sample units are collected of a minimum of 100 g each. If batches are identified in the CHED, the sample units must be collected from the different batches randomly chosen from the consignment. If batches cannot be identified, the sample units are collected randomly from the consignment. Pooling of sample units is not allowed. Each sample unit must be tested separately. No detection of
 Listeria in 25g


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