Regulation 6 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1177/2006

(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1177/2006 implementing Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards requirements for the use of specific control methods in the framework of the national programmes for the control of salmonella in poultry is amended as follows.

(2)

In Article 1, omit “national” in both places it occurs.

(3)

In Article 2—

(a)

in paragraph 2—

(i)

in the words before point (a), for the words from “Article 5” to “Regulation 726/2004/EC” substitute “the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013^f1”;

(ii)

in point (c), for “Member States” substitute “the appropriate authority”;

(b)

after paragraph 4 insert—

“5.

In this Article, ‘the appropriate authority’ means—

(a)
in relation to England, the Secretary of State;

(b)
in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(c)
in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

(d)
in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

but, in relation to Scotland, the appropriate authority is the Secretary of State if consent is given by the Scottish Ministers.”.

(4)

In Article 3—

(a)

in paragraph 1, omit “national”;

(b)

in paragraph 2—

(i)

omit “national”;

(ii)

for “Directive 2001/82/EC” substitute “the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013”;

(c)

in paragraph 3, in the first subparagraph, for the words from “at the latest” to “target” substitute “as long as they did not demonstrate a prevalence below 10% based on the monitoring to follow up a target”.

(5)

Omit Article 4.

(6)

After Article 4, omit the words from “This Regulation” to “Member States”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 2013/2033, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.