Regulation 36 Amendments to Article 33

the existing paragraph becomes paragraph 1;

in that paragraph—

after point (b), insert—

“(c)

subject to a declaration made by the appropriate authority, the Food Standards Agency^f1 or Food Standards Scotland^f2, in accordance with regulation 29(2) of the Trade in Animals and Related Products Regulations 2011^f3 or equivalent legislation in force in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland^f4;

(d)

subject to an order under section 1 of the Animal Health Act 1981^f5 preventing the introduction into or spreading of disease within Great Britain or any of the constituent territories of the United Kingdom, or under the equivalent legislation in force in Northern Ireland^f6.

2.

For the purposes of paragraph 1(b)(ii), a constituent territory of the United Kingdom is not free of African horse sickness if—

(a)

clinical, serological (in unvaccinated animals) or epidemiological evidence has revealed the presence of African horse sickness in that constituent territory of the United Kingdom in the past two years;

(b)

vaccination against African horse sickness has been carried out in that constituent territory of the United Kingdom in the past 12 months.”.