Explanatory note

The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1557 (W.152)) (“the Principal Regulations”) revoke and replace the Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/601 (W.63)).

The Principal Regulations provide for the execution and enforcement in relation to Wales of Articles 26 and 27 of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 concerned with feed and food law, animal health and animal welfare, in so far as the provisions require or permit fees to be collected to cover the costs occasioned by official controls in relation to certain types of poultry; animal welfare in slaughterhouses; slaughter of animals outside slaughterhouses and the slaughter of poultry and various other farmed animals on farms. The Principal Regulations make further provision in relation to notification to operators of any requirement to pay fees or supply information, and in relation to calculation of the official controls charge.

These Regulations make minor amendments to the preamble, and regulations 2(1) and 5(2)(b), of the Principal Regulations.