Regulation 1 Citation, commencement, application and interpretation.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Invasive Non-native Species (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2020 and come into force on IP completion day.

(2)

An amendment made by these Regulations to a provision of the Invasive Alien Species Regulation applies so far as the provision concerned is not affected by an amendment made by the Invasive Non-native Species (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019^f1.

(3)

In these Regulations, “the Invasive Alien Species Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 1143/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and management of the introduction and spread of invasive alien species^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: SI 2019/223 amended by SI 2020/xxx. Those regulations extend to Scotland in relation to controls on imports into and exports from the European Union and, so far as is relevant for that purpose, the Union list in article 4 of the Invasive Alien Species Regulation. They also amend the Invasive Alien Species Regulation in relation to the offshore marine area.
f2: OJ L 317, 4.11.2014, p.35.