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The Food (Animals and Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Scotland) Order 1999

Scottish Statutory Instrument 1999 No. 14 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
1revoked
Made
28 July 1999
In force from
29 July 1999
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
Food Safety Act 1990

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

This Order, which applies to Scotland, revokes in relation to Scotland, and re-enacts with certain changes, the Food (Animals and Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/1542) as amended by the Food (Animals and Animal Products from Belgium) (Emergency Control) (Amendment) Order 1999 (S.I.1999/1763) (“the revoked Orders”) both of which applied to Great Britain. The Order also implements in Scotland, in relation to food and food sources Commission Decision 1999/449/EC (“the Decision”) on protective measures with regard to contamination by dioxins of certain products of animal origin intended for human or animal consumption (OJ No. L175, 10.7.1999, p.70) which consolidates with changes Commission Decision 1999/363/EC (OJ No. L141, 4.6.1999, p.24) and Commission Decision 1999/389/EC (OJ No. L147, 12.6.1999, p.26) as amended, in both cases, by Commission Decision 1999/390/EC (OJ No. L147, 12.6.1999, p.29) and Commission Decision 1999/419/EC (OJ No. L159, 25.6.1999, p.60). Like the revoked orders, this Order defines ‘relevant animal and animal product’ (article 1), prohibits (with exceptions (article 2)) the carrying out of commercial operations relating to relevant animal and animal products (article 3), specifies the enforcement authorities (article 4) and applies with modifications provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (article 5). In addition to making minor and drafting changes to the revoked Orders, the Order, by referring to the Decision, makes the following changes of substance– a whilst the Decision continues, like its predecessor, to cover live domestic fowls, hatching eggs and products derived from domestic fowl, pigs or bovine animals– i it now refers directly to products containing but not exclusively consisting of products of the fowl and animals concerned, but excludes egg whites, ii the rearing period in relation to which continuing controls applicable to pigs and bovine animals and products derived from them apply is closed on 3rd June 1999, and iii in relation to particular products, the controls contained in the Decision no longer apply where analysis shows that the level of contamination by dioxins does not exceed the relevant maximum level for PCB set out in Annex A to the Decision; b there is a variation in the certification required for the importation of products from Belgium; and c the circumstances in which controlled food products may be returned to Belgium now call for information in relation to the return to be exchanged between authorities by fax, and only apply where Belgian authorities are unable to certify the origin of suspect goods under the Decision.

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