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The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (revoked)

Scottish Statutory Instrument 2007 No. 144 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
1 March 2007
In force from
26 March 2007
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales
Made under
(EC) No. 178/2002, European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

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

These Regulations extend to Scotland only. They revoke and replace the Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 (S.S.I. 2006/580). The Regulations give effect in Scotland of Articles 26 and 27 of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004, in so far as those provisions require fees to be collected to cover the costs occasioned by official controls. Provisions in Directive 85/73/EEC, in relation to the rates currently applied, shall continue to apply for a transitional period until 1st January 2008. These official controls are performed, firstly, on meat of domestic ungulates, meat from poultry and lagomorphs, meat of farmed game and meat of wild game under Regulation (EC) No. 854/2004 and, secondly, to verify compliance with the animal welfare rules set out in Council Directive 93/119/EC (O.J. No. L 340, 31.12.93, p.21), in so far as they apply in relation to animals slaughtered for human consumption at slaughterhouses. The Regulations– a require the Agency to notify the operator of each slaughterhouse, game-handling establishment and cutting plant in which official controls have been exercised of the official controls charge that has arisen in relation to those official controls (the terms “slaughterhouse”, “game-handling establishment”, “cutting plant”, “official controls” and “official controls charge” are all defined in regulation 2) (regulation 3); b provide that any official controls charge so notified is payable by the operator to the Agency on demand (regulation 3); c allow the Agency to refuse to exercise any further official controls at given premises where, despite a Court decree requiring the operator of the premises to pay the official controls charge for which that operator is liable, the operator fails to comply with the decree (regulation 4); d require persons– i to supply the Agency on demand with such information as it may reasonably require for the purpose of calculating the official controls charge or notifying the operator of it; and ii to supply the Agency on demand with such evidence as it may reasonably require to verify that information (regulation 5); and e provide that a person who– i in response to a demand for information or evidence, knowingly or recklessly furnishes false or misleading information; or ii without reasonable excuse, fails to comply within a reasonable time with a demand for information or evidence; is guilty of an offence (regulation 5). Schedule 2 to the Regulations sets out how the official controls charge is to be calculated. A full regulatory impact assessment, which includes a compliance cost assessment of the effect which these Regulations would have on business costs, has been prepared for these Regulations and placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre. Copies may be obtained from the Food Standards Agency (Scotland), 6th Floor, St Magnus House, 25 Guild Street, Aberdeen AB11 6NJ.

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