PART 1 Introductory

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Animal Welfare (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2022 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Extent and application

2. These Regulations—

(a) extend to the United Kingdom; but

(b) apply to England and Wales, and Scotland, only.

PART 2 Amendment and modification of retained EU law

Amendment of Regulation (EU) 2017/625

3. In Article 154 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( 2 ), in paragraph 2—

(a) omit “, 24”( 3 ); and

(b) omit “paragraph 3 of this Article”.

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005

4. —(1) Council Regulation 4 ) (referred to in these Regulations as “Regulation

(2) In each place it occurs—

(a) for “ a competent authority ” (including where any of the words is capitalised) substitute “the competent authority” ;

(b) in the phrase “the relevant competent authority” omit “relevant”.

(3) In Article 1(2), for “Articles 3 and 27” substitute “Article 3” .

(4) In Article 2(1), in point (f), for “competent authorities as defined” substitute ““the competent authority” within the meaning given” .

(5) In Article 17(2), for “in in” substitute “in” .

(6) Omit Article 25( 5 ).

(7) Omit Article 27.

(8) In the heading to Chapter 5 (immediately before Article 30), omit “Committee”.

Modification of certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1/2005 that have been deleted but which continue to apply

5. —(1)Articles 14, 15, 16, 23 and 26 of Regulation 6 ), insofar as they continue to apply by virtue of Article 154 of Regulation (EU) 2017/625, are to be read in accordance with the following modifications.

(2)Article 14 is to be read as if, in paragraph 1—

(a) in the words before point (a), for “Member States and with” there were substituted “Great Britain and” ;

(b) in point (d), the words from “, of the exit” to the end were omitted.

(3)Article 15 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 2—

(i) for “Member States and with” there were substituted “Great Britain and” ;

(ii) for “veterinary Community” there were substituted “retained EU veterinary” ;

(b) in paragraph 3, for the words from “Regulation “Regulation (EU) 2017/625” .

(4)Article 16 is to be read as if, in the first indent, for “Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85 “ Regulation (EU) No 165/2014 ( 7 ).

(5)Article 23 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 1, in the second subparagraph, for “Competent authority shall” there were substituted “competent authority may” ;

(b) in paragraph 5—

(i) in both places, for “authorities” there were substituted “authority” ;

(ii) after “the authorisation” there were inserted “, if different,” .

(6)Article 26 is to be read as if—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “7” there were substituted “6” ;

(b) in paragraph 2, after “competent authority which granted the authorisation” there were inserted “, if different,” ;

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) after “destination” there were inserted “in Great Britain” ;

(ii) after “departure” there were inserted “, if different” ;

(d) in paragraph 6—

(i) for “a Member State” there were substituted “the competent authority” ;

(ii) the words from “, even if” to the end were omitted;

(e) paragraph 7 were omitted.