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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-affairs-and-environment-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2019/introduction",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2019/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Rural Affairs and Environment (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rural-affairs-and-environment-miscellaneous-amendments-wales-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Environmental Protection, Wales\nFood, Wales\nMade 28 October 2019\nLaid before the National Assembly for Wales 30 October 2019\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)\nThe Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union, and the prevention and remedy of environmental damage.\nThese Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.\nThere has been open and transparent public consultation during the preparation and evaluation of regulations 3 and 4 as required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety.\nThe Welsh Ministers make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and section 3 of, and Part 1 of the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). It is prospectively repealed by section 1 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (c. 16) from exit day (see section 20 of that Act)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/2690."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2014/1890."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ No L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, last amended by Regulation (EU) No 2019/1243 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 241)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2019/1408/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:18:11.584542+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}